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Project: “Searching for Pleistocene human occupation in the Kura-Arax river depression” – South Caucasus, Armenia

Institution: Fundación Atapuerca

Directors: Dr. Lena Asryan, Dr. Andreu Ollé Cañellas

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Project: “Reformulation of hominid dispersal models through comparative studies of the Acheulean and Middle Paleolithic in India and Africa: Case studies at the Sendrayanapalayam site near Attirampakkam” – India

Institution: Fundación Atapuerca

Directors: Prof. Mohamed Sahnouni, Prof. Shanti Pappu, Prof. Akhilesh Kumar

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Project: “Study of technological behaviour in the chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of Dindefelo: implications for the origin of technology in savannah environments” – Senegal

Institution: Fundación Atapuerca

Directors: Dr. Adrián Arroyo, Dr. R. Adriana Hernández-Aguilar

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Project: “Evolution of Religious-Funerary practices in Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) from the 26th Dynasty to the Christian-Byzantine period: Rituals and Beliefs” – Egypt

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona – IPOA (Instituto de Próximo Oriente Antiguo)

Directors: Dr. Ignasi-Xavier Adiego Lajara, Dra. Maite Mascort Roca, Dra. Esther Pons Mellado

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Project: “Excavation at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin, Zarqa” – Jordan

institution: Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC – Barcelona

Director: Dr. Juan José Ibáñez Estévez

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Project: “Two zero nine, Archaeological mission of the University of La Laguna for the study and conservation of TT 209, Luxor” – Egypt

Institution: Universidad de La Laguna

Director: Dr. Miguel Ángel Molinero Polo

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Project: “Zar Tepe in Bactriana. Buddhist Centre of the Kushan period in the hinterland of Termez (Surkhan Darya)” – Uzbekistan

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona

Director: Dr. Verónica Martínez Ferreras

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Project: “Research and excavation of the tombs from the First Intermediate Period in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, Aswan” – Egypt

Institution: Universidad de Jaén

Directors: Dr. Alejandro Jiménez Serrano, Dr. José Manuel Alba

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Project: “Archaeological project in Gird Lashkir: from the Zagros to the Erbil plain” – Erbil, Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Director: Dr. Miquel Molist Montaña

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Project: “At the top of the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga: seeking clues to understand the location and orientation of tombs and chapels” – Egypt

Institution: Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Antiguo, CSIC – Madrid

Director: Dr. José Manuel Galán Allué

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Project: “Sikait Project” – Egypt

Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Director: Dr. Joan Oller Guzmán

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Project: “Gird Banahilk (Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan) and the consolidation of agropastoral communities in the Zagros” – Kurdistan – Iraq

Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Director: Dr. Anna Bach Gómez

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Project: “Artisan Priests: The tomb of the Memphite high priest Sabu-Tjeti at Saqqara North (Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Saqqara), fourth campaign” – Egypt

Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Director: Dr. Josep Cervelló Autuori

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Project: “Archaeological–paleontological excavations in the Ntem River estuary, Río Campo region” – Equatorial Guinea

Institution: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC Madrid

Directors: Dr. Antonio Rosas González, Dr. Antonio García Tabernero

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Project: “Study of the Pleistocene records of the Engel Ela-Ramud ” – Eritrea

Institution:Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA)

Directors: Dr. Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Dr. Tsegai Medin

 

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Project: “Early Acheulean in East Africa: Excavations at Loc 14” – Olduvai, Tanzania

Institution: Instituto de Historia, CSIC Madrid

Director: Dr. Ignacio de la Torre Sáinz

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Project: “FLK West (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) and the origin of the Acheulean in East Africa” – Tanzania

Institution: Universidad de Valladolid

Director: Dr. Fernando Diez Martín

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Project: “First human steps in South America: walking among Gonphotheres” – Chile

Institution:Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA)

Directors: Dr. Carlos Tornero, Dr. Erwin González-Guarda, Dr. Rafael Labarca

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Project: “Kachchh Archaeological Project: excavations in Lakhapar and interactions with the Indus Valley” – India

Institution: Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA), CSIC – La Laguna

Directors: Dr. Francesc Cecília i Conesa, Dr. Juan José García-Granero

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Project: “Pampa Galeras. Approach to the knowledge of hunter-gatherer societies of the early Holocene in the Peruvian Andean highlands” – Peru

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona

Directors: Dr. José-Miguel Tejero Cáceres, Dr. Leslye Valenzuela Leyva

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Project: “Archaeology of indigenous peasant spaces and Spanish colonial estancias in Catamarca (16th-18th centuries)” – Argentina

Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Director: Dr. Félix Retamero

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Project: “In search of the origins of the Numidian civilisation: excavations and surveys at Sidi Saïd” – Siliana, Tunisia

Institution: Institut Catàla d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC-CERCA)

Directors: Dr. María del Carmen Belarte Franco, Dr. David Montanero Vico

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Project: “Energy resources in prehistory. An approach from the ethnoarchaeology of combustible in Tanzania, Namibia and Sri Lanka”  – Tanzania, Namibia and Sri Lanka

Institution: Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA)

Directors: Dr. Ethel Allué, Dr. Llorenç Picornell Gelabert, Dr. Aitor Burguet Coca

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Project: “Archaeology and Heritage in Cape Verde: the city-port of Ribeira Grande in the 15th-18th centuries” – Cape Verde

Institution: Universidad del País Vasco /Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Directors: Dr. Javier Garcia Iñañez, Dr. André Teixeira, Dr. Jaylson Monteiro

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Project: “Rock art of the Inírida River, Colombia (Universidad de Alcalá Universidad de los Andes, Museo comunitario del Guania)” – Colombia

Institution: Universidad de Alcalá

Directors: Dr. Primitiva Bueno Ramírez, Dr. Carmen Pérez Maestro

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Project: “Revealing the ecosystems of our ancestors to preserve our own: past dynamics and distribution of South African biodiversity” – South Africa

Institutions: Universidad de León, Nelson Mandela University

Directors: Dr. Saúl Manzano Rodríguez, Dr. Lynne Quick

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Project: ” The human landscape of Thapsus, between the Mediterranean and the sebkha of Moknine” – Tunisia

Institution: Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida (IAM), CSIC – Mérida

Director: Dr. Jesús García Sánchez

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Project: “C2 – Royal Cache Wadi Survey” – Egypt

Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Director: Dr. José Ramón Pérez-Accino Picatoste

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Project: “ARVCODA – Archaeology of Plant Resources in the Atacama Desert Coast” – Chile

Institution: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Director: Dr. Débora Zurro

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Proyecto: “ModAgrO: Modelling the Agricultural Origins and Urbanism in South Asia” – Pakistan

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Director: Dr. Marco Madella

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Project: “Reconstructing the San Juan River neighborhood: from survey to digitization” – Mexico

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona

Directors: Dra. Natalia Moragas Segura, Dra. Alessandra Pecci

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Project: “Archaeology of nomadic pastoralism in Mongolia. The invisible traces of domestic spaces” – Mongolia

Institution: Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA), CSIC – La Laguna

Director: Dr. Natalia Égüez

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Project: “In search of Damot: a pagan kingdom of Ethiopia” – Ethiopia

Institution: Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT), CSIC Santiago de Compostela

Director: Dr. Alfredo González-Ruibal

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Project: “Semi-arid forest landscapes of South America: Reconstructing the paleoecology of plant resources used by hunter-gatherers” – Argentina

Institution: Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA)

Director: Dr. Andrés Robledo

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Project: “Socio-Ecological Evolution and human occupation Dynamics in pre-islamic Dhofar (SEED)” – Oman

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Directors: Dra. Carla Lancelotti, Dra. Silvia Lischi, Dr. Stefano Biagetti

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Project: “Sailing between two waters. Archaeological evidence for identifying the itinerant Jesuit missions in the eastern islands of the Chiloé archipelago, Chile (17th–20th centuries)” – Chile

Institution: Universitat de les Illes Balears

Directors: Dr. Jaume García Rosselló, Dra. Javiera Letelier, Dra. Margalida Coll

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Project: “Demographic dynamics and agricultural innovation in the pre-Columbian Llanos de Moxos” – Bolivia

Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Directors: Dra. Kate Dudgeon, Dr. Umberto Lombardo

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Project: “Project for the documentation, cleaning, and conservation of burial chambers in Luxor (Egypt): sevent season” – Egypt

Institution: Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CSIC – Madrid

Directors: Dra. Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos, Dra. Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras

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Project: “Wadi al-Garawi Dam Project (WaGDP)” – Egypt

Institution: Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IEPOA – UAB)

Director: Dra. Roser Marsal Aguilera

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Project: “The Kiik Kamar Cave (Uzbekistan), key to the study of the Upper Paleolithic in Central Asia” – Uzbekistan

Institution: Universidade de Vigo

Directors: Dr. Iván Rey-Rodríguez, Dra. Sara Varela, Dra. Małgorzata Kot

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Project: “Ewass Oldupa: At the origin of technology and adaptation. Deciphering how the first Homo faced climate change in Olduvai Gorge” – Tanzania

Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Directors: Dra. María Soto Quesada, Dr. Julio Mercader Florín

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Project: “Excavations at the Lower Paleolithic site of Dalarik-1, Armenia – a rare glimpse into Middle Pleistocene lifeways” – Armenia

Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Directors: Dr. Theodoros Karampaglidis, Dra. Rosa María Carrasco González, Dr. Artur Petrosian

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Project: “Estimating the age and sex of pre-Hispanic artists: an approach based on the analysis of negative handprints in the rock art of Los Toldos (Argentine Patagonia)” – Argentina

Institution: Universidad de Cantabria

Director: Dr. Diego Garate Maidagan

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 Project: “Broken landscapes” – Peru

Institution: Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT), CSIC – Santiago de Compostela

Director: Dr. Manuel Felipe Criado Boado

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Project: “Maritime archaeology and history of the War of Brazil; study of shipwrecks and a castaways’ camp in Argentine North Patagonia, 1827” – Argentina

Institution: Universidad de Cádiz

Director: Dr. Nicolás C. Ciarlo

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Project: “Nakali (Kenya), a site to understand our origins” – Kenya

Institution: Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Director: Dra. Marta Pina Miquel

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Project: “Qaw El-Kebir Expedition” – Egypt

Institution: Universidad de Jaén – Universidad de Alcalá

Director: Dr. José Manuel Alba Gómez

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 Project: “Lecture Series: Archaeological research in Spain VII (2025-2026)” – Madrid

Institution: MAN (Museo Arqueológico Nacional) – Madrid

Director: Dr. Isabel Izquierdo Peraile

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