LAC2020+1 (former LAC2020) is back!
El congrés d’arqueologia del paisatge, LAC2020+1 es reprèn, després que l’edició de 2020 quedés suspesa per la situació provocada per la pandèmia. El congrés es celebrarà del 8 a l’11 de juny i es farà virtualment, amb un sistema de retransmissió que garanteix l’intercanvi interacció pròpies d’un congrés.
L’investigador Josep Maria Palet, codirector de l’equip GIAP i director de l’ICAC, forma part del Comitè Científic del congrés.
La participació de l’equip GIAP destaca també per l’organització de diverses sessions i la presentació de comunicacions.
#Session8: Advances in archaeological survey
Organitzada per Hector A. Orengo, Thomas P. Leppard, Elif Koparal, Toby C. Wilkinson, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Merkourios Georgiadis, Athanasia Krahtopoulou i Josep Maria Palet.
Abstract: Pedestrian archaeological survey has a long archaeological pedigree and, in different forms, has been applied since the beginnings of the discipline. With the integration of quantitative methods in the late 70s pedestrian survey became a more efficient tool capable of providing dimensions of information beyond the basic location and chronology of archaeological sites. Systematic pedestrian surveys have had a large influence in landscape archaeology, providing a constant source of theoretical and methodological developments. From the very definition of archaeological ‘site’ in relation to concentrations of material culture to concerns involving occupation density and continuous landscape use, survey data has underpinned evolving discussions on the nature and focus of landscape archaeology.
#Session9: Archaeological site detection with machine learning and other computational approaches
Organitzada per Hector A. Orengo, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Francesc C. Conesa i Cameron A. Petrie (Universitat de Cambridge)
Abstract: Although machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)-related methods have been in use for several decades, they have been applied to archaeological problems only recently. Some early implementations focussed on the classification, seriation and analysis of material culture, such as artistic representations (Barceló 1995a and 1995b, Di Ludovico and Ramazzotti 2005), use-wear of prehistoric tools (Van den Dries 1998), historical glass artifacts and ancient coins (Van der Maaten et al. 2007). The application of ML and DL in archaeology has experienced a strong turn towards the detection of archaeological sites during the last years (but see Wright and Gattiglia 2018 for the identification of ceramic fragments and Oonk and Spijker 2015 for geochemical analysis). Since the pioneering work of Menze and Ur (2012), the wider availability of data (in particular multispectral satellite data and high-resolution lidar), cloud computing platforms and ready-made AI tools and code have boosted ML and DL site-based detection (e.g. Lisset al. 2017, Trier et al. 2019, Verschoof-van der Vaart and Lambers 2019, Orengo and Garcia-Molsosa 2019).
Organitzada per Lídia Colominas, Marta Moreno-García (Instituto de Historia, CSIC) i Leonor Peña-Chocarro (Instituto de Historia, CSIC).
Abstract: Growing interest in the occupation and exploitation of mountains has shown that human impact was intense and that these areas constitute true cultural landscapes shaped over time. At the same time, the archaeology of the last ten years has seen significant developments in areas related to Bioarchaeology and Palaeoenvironmental Sciences, with the application of innovative techniques such as aDNA, geometric morphometrics or isotopic or lipid analyses. Therefore, at present, there is a novel bioarchaeological dataset that have the potential to yield significant information about the past use of mountain areas, allowing us to rethink our understanding of human, animal and landscape interactions in these sensitive environments over time. Currently, archaeozoological and archaeobotanical approaches integrated in interdisciplinary projects are taking important steps forward in the study of major issues concerned with mountain archaeology, such as the characterization of agro-pastoral activities, the reconstruction of landscape or the adaptation of humans to mountain areas.
Comunicacions en què participen:
- ‘Integrated landscape analysis in the hinterland of Emporion-Emporiae (North-Eastern Catalonia)’, Josep Maria Palet, Ana Ejarque, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Esther Rodrigo, Hèctor A. Orengo, María Jesús Ortega.
- ‘Two cities, two strategies. Landscape dynamics in the territories of Valentia and Saguntum (Hispania Citerior) during the Late Roman Republic (2nd-1st centuries BC)’, Maria Jesús Ortega, Josep Maria Palet, Hèctor A. Orengo.
- ‘The Archaeological Project at Abdera and Xanthi: New techniques and data’, Merkourios Georgiadis, Arnau Garcia Molsosa, Hector Orengo, Constantina Kallintzi, Eurydice Kefalidou, Ana Ejarque, Alfredo Mayoral , Josep Maria Palet.
- ‘Towards a practical application of automated drone-based archaeological survey’, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Héctor A. Orengo, Thomas P. Leppard, Elisabeth A. Murphy, Andrea Roppa, Merkourios Georgiadis, Eurídice Kefalidou, Nikolas Dimakis, Konstantina Kallintzi.
- ‘Integrated machine/deep learning approaches for the remote detection of archaeological features of the Indus Civilisation’, Hector A. Orengo, Francesc C. Conesa, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Adam Green, Agustín Lobo, Cameron A. Petrie.
- ‘Some ideas on the potential of new multitemporal multisource remote sensing data for the development of synergistic approaches between archaeology and precision agriculture’, Hector A. Orengo, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Cameron A. Petrie.
- ‘Livestock, transhumance and landscape change in the Eastern Pyrenees (high Ter valleys): an interdisciplinary and long-term research’, Josep Maria Palet, Valentina Pescini, Lidia Colominas, Marco Fossati, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Abel Gallego-Valle, Hector A. Orengo.
- ‘Agriculture and Livestock strategies in the Oriental Pyrenees during the Iron Age: the Tossal de Baltarga case’, Oriol Olesti, Portillo Marta, Colominas Lidia, Oller Joan, Morera Jordi
- ‘Landscape change from Roman to the Early Islamic period in the Valencia (Spain) alluvial plain (1st- 10th centuries AD)’, Maria Jesús Ortega; FerranEsquilache; Josep Maria Palet.
