For the first time, bioarchaeology has a dedicated subject a Master’s degree in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). The subject, which started this week, is led by Lídia Colominas and Alexandra Livarda, both Ramón y Cajal researchers at GIAP (ICAC). The subject is included in the new Master’s degree “Applied Classical Archaeology. Research and Transfer (MACA)”, organised by…
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We are glad to welcome Maria Suárez Moreno, who is visiting us for a week to train in the use of various algorithms for palaeo-river detection, developed by Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA research professor at ICAC). Among these algorithms, there are the MSRM (Orengo and Petrie 2018), the SMTVI (Orengo and Petrie 2017) and other…
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The team of dedicated IHU and trainee agronomy students that made harvest and threshing possible. ‘Twiggy’ the car also deserves a mention, as the silent hero of the project. A long, hard, and yet particularly rewarding stage comes to its end; the end of the second successful harvest and threshing of our experimental cultivations in…
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After a few months in GIAP (ICAC), Mar and Rosa will say farewell to the archaeozoology team this July. Supervised by Lídia Colominas, she introduced them to the laboratory practices and methodologies in archaeozoology. Mar Jornet is a master’s degree student at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), focusing on Ancient Mediterranean. She joined us in the context of…
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