GIAP. Grup d’Investigació en Arqueologia del Paisatge: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1-20 of 316
Agricultural Management and Culinary Culture in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean: Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Insights from Region I, Xeropolis, Lefkandi
This study reports archaeobotanical and crop stable-isotope results from Building M and its environs at Xeropolis (Lefkandi, Euboea), a key Aegean site spanning the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age transition. The results ...
Foodways, Plant Management and Environment in the Western Roman Provinces: An Archaeobotanical Approach Using as a Case Study the Site of Iesso, Spain
Waterlogged preservation is rare in the Mediterranean, but when present, it enables the recovery of a particularly wide variety of plants. The Roman site of Guissona (Iesso, Catalonia, Spain) is one of the very few sites ...
La Ramaderia durant l'època romana al nord‑est peninsular: alguns exemples i reflexions
L’estudi de les restes de fauna recuperades en jaciments romans de l’actual Catalunya ja no és una anomalia. Per tant, comencem a tenir un corpus prou important de dades per a poder caracteritzar la ramaderia ...
The prehistoric site of Oued Beht, Khémisset, Morocco: an interpretative report on 2021–2022 fieldwork and associated research
This report presents the first in-depth publication of preliminary data from Oued Beht, northwest Morocco, a remarkable site initially identified in the 1930s and now newly investigated. It is based on fieldwork undertaken ...
Localització i excavació arqueològica d’una església altmedieval perduda a les envistes del Montseny: Sant Julià de Valldaneu (Sant Martí de Centelles, Osona)
Ressenya de la intervenció arqueològica que va permetre localitzar l’església de Sant Julià de Valldaneu, que ja constava com a desapareguda al segle XVIII. Es tracta d’una església relacionada amb el nucli del vilar dit ...
The Diet in the Roman Period Through the Study of Sites with Waterlogged Assemblages: the Case Study of Guissona (Catalonia, Spain)
The recovery of archaeobotanical assemblages preserved under anoxic conditions (in waterlogged environments) is a rare phenomenon in the Mediterranean, as opposed to central and northern Europe. One of the few sites in the ...
Tracing culinary practices in the western provinces of the Roman Empire using Organic Residue Analysis
This study aims at reconstructing foodways in the north-east (NE) of the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on lipid residue analysis of utilitarian vessels and using as case studies the sites of Puig Castellar of Biosca (180–120 ...
Statuary Qualities of White and Black Göktepe Identified in the Hispanic Valdetorres de Jarama Marble Collection
This paper focuses on the role of the most common mineralogical techniques applied to the identification of the different statuary qualities in white, grey, and black Göktepe marble. For this purpose, the case of a Roman ...
ArqueoPirenaia Lab. Proposta educativa per a la Vall de Núria i Coma de Vaca
Guia didàctica que acompanya a les persones educadores/mediadores en el desplegament de la maleta didàctica ArqueoPirenaia Lab. Recull els pilars educatius i els objectius del laboratori didàctic, la seva articulació amb ...
A la recerca de les coordenades perdudes
Quadern didàctic que, a partir de 6 enigmes, permet interactuar de manera lúdica amb els continguts de l'exposició "Vall de Núria i Coma de Vaca. Paisatges culturals mil·lenaris". Material educatiu adreçat a infants, ...
Ottoman archaeology between the Self and the Other: archaeological ethnography and the transborder research potential of the SW Balkans
Religious syncretism alongside the coexistence of various groups of people and their shared material culture was a reality in the Ottoman-era Balkans. Such entanglements remain underrepresented in archaeological theory and ...
La Torre di Babele è in Via Balbi n. 6. Il Laboratorio di Archeologia e Storia ambientale (LASA – Università di Genova)
Il Laboratorio di Archeologia e Storia Ambientale (LASA) dell’Università di Genova nasce come gruppo di ricerca su tematiche come la storia e la geografia del paesaggio agrario, forestale e pastorale, la storia e l’archeologia ...
Fonti geostoriche e geomatica per lo studio topografico delle variazioni dell'estensione e dei limiti del bosco: il caso di Peio (TN) tra XIX e XXI secolo
Inserendosi nel filone degli studi sulla storia della copertura boschiva, il saggio presenta una ricerca diacronica sui limiti del bosco compiuta processando con strumenti geomatici, software GIS e Monoplotting una serie ...
Beyond the herd: investigating livestock feeding strategies in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC) through a multi-isotope analysis
During the Iron Age, north-eastern Iberian communities relied on crop cultivation and animal husbandry for their subsistence. The latter was mainly focused on caprine, with sheep being prominent due to their suitability ...
Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory
The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet, knowledge of its later prehistory is limited, ...
Long-Term Settlement Dynamics in Ancient Macedonia: A New Multi-Disciplinary Survey from Grevena (NW Greece)
This paper discusses the evolution of human settlement in ancient Macedonia from the Neolithic to the Late Roman periods, based on the results of a new multi-disciplinary and multi-scale archaeological survey in northern ...
Holocene alluvial dynamics, soil erosion and settlement in the uplands of Macedonia (Greece): New geoarchaeological insights from Xerolakkos in Grevena
This paper addresses the interplay between Holocene landscape evolution and human settlement dynamics, drawing new evidence from the alluvial history of Xerolakkos, a continental stream in Grevena (Western Macedonia, ...
Reconstructing palaeogeography and landscapes around the ancient Greek colony of Abdera (Thrace, NE gr.): an integrated remote sensing approach
We developed a multi-source, integrated remote sensing approach to characterize the geomorphological features of the alluvial and coastal lowlands around the ancient Abdera (coastal Thrace, Gr.). By combining multi-temporal ...
Els camins-barrancs de la Plana de Castelló: l’ús dels llits dels barrancs com a elements de la xarxa viària històrica
La utilització de les zones més favorables per al pas i la circulació al llarg de la geografia ha sigut una constant durant la història. Des de temps passats, els llocs amb major facilitat d’accés són emprats per a una ...
Ewes of a leather flock together. Feeding management systems during Late Antiquity in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula (4th c. – 8th c. AD): a dental microwear approach
In recent years, the dental microwear analysis technique has been proven as an approach for contributing to animal husbandry research. It has been tested with good results on providing information related to the animal ...
