Roman expansion and acculturations at both sides of the Mediterranean: searching for patterns, rates and singularities through archaeozoology. (RYC-2019-026732-I)

Principal Investigator(s):: Lídia Colominas

Participating Researcher(s): Laura Strolin, Abel Gallego-Valle, Katie Tardio (University of North Carolina) i Nimrod Maron (University of Haifa)

Collaborating Researcher(s) Yifat Thareani (NYU Tel-Aviv), Pere Castanyer (MAC-Empúries), Joaquim Tremoleda (MAC-Empúries), Oriol Olesti (UAB) i Cèsar Carreras (UAB)

Dates: 01/03/2021 - 28/02/2026

Financed by: AEI, Ramón y Cajal (RYC-2019-026732-I)
Fundación Palarq, Analíticas 2019-2021

This project aims to examine the Roman expansion and the subsequent acculturations as social processes and from a local perspective. It examines in detail the patterns of interaction between Roman imperialism and the native population in two specific areas, each located at the ends of the Mediterranean, Catalonia and Israel, in order to search for timings, rates and singularities. It applies an archaeozoological approach that allow to investigate key aspects of the Roman economy and society, such as dietary patterns, livestock practices or animal trade.

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Colominas, L.; Portillo, M.; Morera, J.; Oller, J.; Berrocal-Barberà, A.; Gallego-Valle, A.; López-Bultó, O.; Messana, Ch.; Sisa-López de Pablo, J.; Tornero, C.; Olesti, O., "Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): an integrated bio-geoarchaeological approach", Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15. .

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Article in indexed journals | 2023

Messana, Ch.; Tornero, C.; Madgwick, R.; Lamb, A.; Evans, J.; Colominas, L., "Between valleys, plateaus and mountains: unveiling livestock altitudinal mobility in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC) through a multi-isotope approach", Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 2. .

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Messana, Ch.; Tornero, C.; Colominas, L., "Choose what suits you best: reproductive patterns and livestock management in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC)", Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15. .

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Tardio, K.; Colominas, L, "Contextos faunístics: una finestra a la ramaderia i a la dieta càrnica dels Munts" a Remolà, J-A., Vil·la Romana dels Munts (Tarraco), Generalitat de Catalunya, Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona, Tarragona, p. 561-567.

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Book Chapter | 2022

Salazar-García, D.; Colominas, L.; Jordana, X., "Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach", PLOS ONE, 17(8). JCR (ISI), Factor d'impacte: 3.75 (Q2, Multidisciplinary Sciences); Scopus, CiteScore: 5.7 (Q1, 87%, Multidisciplinay).

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Colominas, L.; Olesti, O.; Guàrdia, J.; Harzbecher, K., "Supplying the Roman army? Animal production and consumption in the countryside of north-eastern Iberia (Can Rubió, la Garrotxa)", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45, p. 103561. JCR (ISI); Scopus, CiteScore: 3.0 (Q1, 91%, Archeology (arts and humanities)).

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Colominas, L.; Gallego-Valle, A., "Investigating Livestock Practices in the Countryside of Roman Spain: An Archaeozoological Approach" a Bermejo, J.; Grau, I., The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain, De Gruyter, p. 71-88.

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Book Chapter | 2021

Colominas, L.; Castanyer, P.; Frigola, J.; Tremoleda, J., "What Happened in That Pit? An Archaeozoological and GIS Approach to Study an Accumulation of Animal Carcasses at the Roman Villa of Vilauba (Catalonia)", Animals, 11, p. 1-24. Scopus, CiteScore: 1.1 (Q2, 63%, General Veterinary) / 10.5 (ICDS).

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