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…
Recent work has brought news on Assyrian domination in the region and about Iron Age in the eastern Levant In October 5 , the Tell el-Far’a project team will head to Palestine for the third excavation campaign Tell el-Far’a, archaeological research in Biblical lands Aerial view of the excavation area. Photo: José G. Gómez Tell…
Palarq Foundation supports the project: Chronology and temporality of funerary practices of megalithic societies: the necropolis of Panoría (Darro, Granada) Megalithism as a form of identity expression Megalithic landscapes are sacred places where human societies for thousands of years found the perfect place for interaction and encounter with the powers of the supernatural The Iberian…
The Santa Teresa Canyon was declared a World Heritage Site in 1993 for its painted art Wall paintings can be up to 3 meters high Archaeoacoustics studies the acoustic properties of the landscape The project: “El paisaje sonoro y el arte rupestre del Cañón de Santa Teresa, Baja California Sur, México” was developed in 2018,…
It is endowed with €80,000 and is the first private initiative in this field Madrid, 26 November 2018 – The National Archaeological Museum of Spain has hosted the award ceremony for the first edition of the Palarq Foundation’s National Award for Archaeology and Paleontology to the project ‘Building Tartesos’, which sheds new light on the…