The first population of the Canary Islands was led by Berber groups from North Africa around the first centuries of the Age Las Huesas, a necropolis of the aborigines of Gran Canaria First time on the island, evidence of ritual deposits of domestic fauna in burial contexts is identified Location of the cemetery of Las…
The project ‘Following in the footsteps of transhumance in antiquity: study of livestock farming practices and cultural landscapes in the eastern Pyrenees through archaeozoology (Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica) investigates the livestock farming that was practiced in mountain areas in pre-Roman and Roman times (5th to 3rd centuries AD) and the local, regional or interregional character…
The ancient city of Utica (Tunisia) was the oldest Phoenician foundation in Africa according to ancient Greek and Latin texts. After the fall of Carthage it was the capital of the Roman province of Africa and one of the most important cities of the Mediterranean in antiquity The area occupied by the Phoenician city has…
This project on “materials for building a villa” is part of the research that we have been carrying out at the Santa María de Abajo de Carranque site (Toledo) since 2004 and is a magnificent example of the progress that can be achieved through the sum of efforts through collaboration between public institutions, such as…
Changes in the lifestyles of nomadic hunter-gatherers who became sedentary farmers and stockbreeders were decisive for human history. Between 14,000 and 9,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers began to live in sedentary villages. These changes took place, for the first time, in the Middle East, in the current countries of Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and…
Integrated deposit in the Silk Road Its strategic location makes Termez a prominent political and economic centre Study of the city from an archaeological Holistic study of ceramics that is produced and used as an indicator of the passing of the city The fortification of Tchingiz Tepe in Termez The project takes place in the…
Characterization of the geological origin of cinnabar pigments used in Roman mural painting in the northeastern quadrant of Hispania. Cinnabar is a mineral of the sulphide class, characterized by a beautiful vermilion colour that, once reduced to dust, produces one of nature’s most valued red pigments. Fragment of cinnabar from the mine of Las Cuevas…
The “Sikait Project” team discovers a late period ritual space dedicated to the god Horus in the Greco-Roman port of Berenike, Egypt. Project focuses on analysis of emerald production and marketing in Roman Egypt This discovery is one of the few evidences of this cult in Late Roman Egypt The second archaeological excavation campaign of…
First case of a deposit specializing in the extraction of flint in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula LITOcat, an indispensable tool for the study of strategies for the supply and management of mineral resources by prehistoric societies Front of Montvell quarry (UE1001) and associated rubble dump (UE1004) at the end of the 2017 excavation.…
La Blanca Project, fifteen years of exploration in the Mayan cities of the Mopán Valley (Petén, Guatemala). La Blanca, an exceptional Mayan city due to its palatial constructions, has the widest vault ever documented in the entire Mayan area. Located near Petén, cradle of the Mayan civilization City abandoned in the famous “collapse” of classical…
A very important site for understanding the processes of iberization and romanization of the Eastern Pyrenees Largest batch of ceramic material ever recovered in the Eastern Pyrenees Findings of jars, loom weights, animal skeletons, and Roman military elements Hannibal and his troops through the Pyrenees, a historical episode of first magnitude, today still very poorly…
New studies have been started focusing on the diet of the 27 equids intentionally deposited in the Ibero-Roman silos of the Serrat dels Espinyers, next to the old Aeso Aeso, now Isona, was the most northwestern Roman city in Catalonia The presence of mules suggests the Roman military establishment as hybrid equids are more characteristic…
