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5/10/2020

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ICAC launches a process for creating a protocol for prevention and action against workplace harassment based on sex, gender or diversity

ICAC Equality Committee leads a process for creating a protocol for the prevention, detection, identification and action in situations of sexual harassment at work based on sex, gender or diversity, and other forms of harassment. This action is included in the ICAC’s Action Plan for Equality (approved by the Board of Directors in 2017) and responds to the ICAC’s […]

22/09/2020

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What was the role of the port of “Tarracona” during the arrival of the first Arab contingents to the city?

La tesis del doctorando Francesc Rodríguez hace una apuesta por la ceramología como herramienta para la comprensión del proceso histórico de transformación que vivió el área portuaria de la ciudad de Tarracona entre los siglos VII y VIII d. C. La tesis doctoral de Francesc Rodríguez presenta un estudio ceramológico detallado que permite avanzar en el conocimiento de […]

10/09/2020

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Recent studies state the presence of Lusitanian marble in the Romanesque cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

On-going a new campaign of archaeometric study of the marble pieces, now focused on the facade of Platerías A masterpiece of medieval art and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela has, in its Romanesque part, a small but very significant number of sculptural and architectural elements in marble that stand out in an […]

2/09/2020

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At the end of August a new archaeological excavation began in the Visigoth city of Valencia “la Vella” (Riba-roja de Túria, Valencia)

Desde finales de agosto, se está llevando a cabo una nueva excavación arqueológica en la ciudad visigoda de Valencia la Vella (Riba-roja de Túria). The intervention is part of the research and dissemination project promoted, since 2016, by the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology and the City Council of Riba-roja de Túria (region of Camp de Túria, Valencia). The action is […]

1/08/2020

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Recent archaeological works in Costa de la Serra (La Secuita, Tarragona) allows defining the southern façade of the fortification

Last July 17, 2020 archaeological campaign in Costa de la Serra (La Secuita, Tarragona) ended. For three weeks, a small group of ICAC researchers, students from the inter-university master’s degree in Classical Archaeology and volunteers have been working hard to define the southern limit of the fortification. Recent works bear out preliminary results obtained in the 2019 intervention, with […]

28/07/2020

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El MBT i l’ICAC exposen una reproducció de la pileta trilingüe hebraica de Tarragona

El Museu Bíblic Tarraconense (MBT) compta ara entre les seves peces amb una reproducció de la pileta trilingüe hebraica de Tarragona, en el marc del projecte de recerca i divulgació «TarrAcro-Polis: un viatge científic de 2.00 anys d’història». La peça és una rèplica d’una de les peces més excepcionals que es conserven del món hebreu antic, l’anomenada “pileta […]

27/07/2020

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On-going archaeological works in Bac de Puigpedrós (Pyrenees) provides early signs of pre-Roman presence in the site

The new GIAP archaeological campaign in the Pyrenees has started with archaeological survey and trial excavation tasks in new archaeological sites registered at headwaters of the Duran river and in Coll de Mulleres (Meranges, Cerdanya). The research team wants thus to expand the number of known deposits and dated them, so they can work with more data on […]

21/07/2020

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An automatic learning system allows you to locate archaeological sites in remote areas

An article published in the journal PNAS, with Hèctor A. Orengo, ICAC researcher and co-director of the GIAP Research Group, as the lead author presents a machine-learning data analysis from multisensor satellites. The study, which has uncovered more than a hundred new archaeological mounds in Pakistan’s Thar Desert, provides valuable information on the effects of […]

21/07/2020

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URV, ICAC and Constanti City Council run a full project to heritage recovery in the Roman villa of Mas dels Frares

The Rovira i Virgili University (URV), the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Constanti City Council signed a collaboration agreement to promote archaeological research in the rural archaeological site of Mas dels Frares (Constantí, Tarragona) and assess the heritage entity of this Roman villa of the old territory of Tarraco. This archaeological site is located […]

15/07/2020