Tag: iron age

2,500-Year-Old Roots of Transhumance: an interview with Lídia Colominas

Dr. Lídia Colominas was recently interviewed and highlighted in the RECERCAT newsletter to delve deeper into one of our latest articles from 2023, which showcased that Iron Age communities in Catalonia practiced seasonal altitudinal movements. The study, featured in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, was a collaboration between IPHES-CERCA, ICAC-CERCA, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cardiff University and the…
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Open Access! Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): an integrated bio-geoarchaeological approach

Ramón y Cajal researcher Lídia Colominas and postdoctoral researcher Abel Gallego-Valle, in collaboration with researchers from CSIC, IPHES and UAB, have published a new paper in the Archaeological Anthropology journal: Colominas, L., Portillo, M., Morera, J. et al. Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): an integrated bio-geoarchaeological approach. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 159…
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New paper! Reproductive patterns and livestock management in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC)

Lídia Colominas (Ramón y Cajal researcher at ICAC) has published a new open access paper in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, in collaboration with Chiara Messana and Carlos Tornero, researchers at Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Messana, C., Tornero, C. & Colominas, L.…
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Next GIAP Seminar : ‘Continuities and Innovations in Agriculture and Plant Processing in NW Mediterranean during the 1st millennium BC’

Join us in the third 2022 GIAP Seminar! April 28th 2022, 18-19h CET ‘Continuities and Innovations in Agriculture and Plant Processing in NW Mediterranean during the 1st millennium BC’ Prof. Natalia Alonso MartínezProfessor of Prehistory at University of Lleida Keywords: Agriculture, Archaeobotany, Iron Age, Iberian Culture, Technological innovations Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/JoinGIAPseminarNo registration required.…
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