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19/11/2024

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L’ICAC se suma a la lluita per a l’eradicació de la violència masclista

Amb motiu del Dia internacional per a l’eliminació de la violència envers les dones. El manifest de la Comissió de Dones i Ciència del Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya afirma que universitats i centres de recerca han de ser referents en matèria d’igualtat i eliminació de la violència contra les dones. També denuncia que la violència […]

14/11/2024

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Excavations at Kachchh, India: Juna Khatiya Cemetery and the Indus Civilization

New video from the Tribuna d’Arqueologia: Excavations in Kachchh, India. The Tribuna d’Arqueologia presents the video of the twelfth conference scheduled within the cycle of conferences of the Tribuna d’Arqueologia 2024 that took place on November 12, in Barcelona, by Francesc C. Conesa (IPNA-CSIC – ICAC, GIAP) and Juan José García-Granero (IMF-CSIC), with the moderation […]

7/11/2024

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New Soil Sampling Campaign in Montseny Natural Park Unearths Clues to Historical Landscape Dynamics

An interdisciplinary team led by the GIAP research group (ICAC) conducted the second soil sampling campaign in Montseny Natural Park from October 21 to 25. This campaign, led by the principal investigators of the PastMont project, Valentina Pescini and Abel Gallego, featured a new soil test pit dug at Pla de la Calma plateau, reaching […]

4/11/2024

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The TransComb Project Fires Up the Ovens: Experimental Archaeology at the Iberian Citadel of Calafell

The TransComb experimental archaeology project continues at the Iberian Citadel of Calafell. This project, led by the Protohistory team of the MIRMED research group and headed by M. Carme Belarte (ICREA-ICAC), focuses on studying culinary practices of the Iberian culture through the recreation of Protohistoric cooking techniques, with a particular emphasis on the use of […]

30/10/2024

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New ICAC and Palarq Foundation collaboration drives microarchaeology project on protohistoric domestic spaces

The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA) signs a new collaboration agreement with the Palarq Foundation. Thanks to this new agreement, Dr Marta Mateu Sagués, postdoc researcher in the MIRMED research group, will lead the project “Microarchaeology in Protohistoric Domestic Spaces.” This year-long project aims to deepen our understanding of protohistoric domestic spaces through the […]

28/10/2024

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Seminari sobre les estructures productives en “villae” del Camp de Tarragona: nous estudis i perspectives

El divendres 8 de novembre, a l’ICAC, tindrà lloc el seminari “Novetats sobre les estructures productives en uillae del Camp de Tarragona”, una jornada de debat i presentació d’estudis recents sobre els espais productius de diverses vil·les d’època romana. La sessió, que es podrà seguir també en línia via Teams, ha estat organitzada per dos […]

24/10/2024

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Ninth Excavation Campaign at València ‘la Vella’ Uncovers New Insights into Late Roman Settlement

The ninth excavation campaign at Valencia “la Vella” has successfully concluded after two weeks of intense work. On this occasion, a team from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, led by Dr Jenny Abura, collaborated closely with the Late Antiquity team at ICAC to deepen our understanding of the site. This campaign focused on studying sector 6200, where […]

21/10/2024

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The Venus of Badalona, 90 Years Later: An Archaeometric Study Delves into Its Origins

The Venus of Badalona: A Roman Sculpture Full of Surprises. This November marks 90 years since Badalonian archaeologist Joaquim Font i Cussó discovered a Venus sculpture during excavations in the lower part of Clos de la Torre, in Badalona, near what is now the Assemblea de Catalunya square. The Venus immediately became a symbolic piece […]

16/10/2024

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A new AI model developed by the GIAP research group enables the detection of underground irrigation systems with unprecedented accuracy

The research, published in Journal of Archaeological Science, is a key advancement in the identification of qanats in the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. Nazarij Buławka, Hector A. Orengo, and Iban Berganzo-Besga, members of the GIAP Computational Archaeology team, have created an AI model to detect qanats at the spy Cold War-era imagery. The development […]

14/10/2024