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GRANTS APPROVED IN THE 2025 CALL \u2013 SCHEDULED DATES IN THE 2026 CAMPAIGN<\/h2>\n

Project: \u201cSearching for Pleistocene human occupation in the Kura-Arax river depression\u201d \u2013 South Caucasus, Armenia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Fundaci\u00f3n Atapuerca<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Lena Asryan, Dr. Andreu Oll\u00e9 Ca\u00f1ellas<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cReformulation 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\u201d \u2013 India<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Fundaci\u00f3n Atapuerca<\/p>\n

Directors: Prof. Mohamed Sahnouni, Prof. Shanti Pappu, Prof. Akhilesh Kumar<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cStudy of technological behaviour in the chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus<\/em>) of Dindefelo: implications for the origin of technology in savannah environments\u201d \u2013 Senegal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Fundaci\u00f3n Atapuerca<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Adri\u00e1n Arroyo, Dr. R. Adriana Hern\u00e1ndez-Aguilar<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cEvolution of Religious-Funerary practices in Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa, Egypt) from the 26th Dynasty to the Christian-Byzantine period: Rituals and Beliefs\u201d \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona – IPOA (Instituto de Pr\u00f3ximo Oriente Antiguo)<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Ignasi-Xavier Adiego Lajara, Dra. Maite Mascort Roca, Dra. Esther Pons Mellado<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cExcavation at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin, Zarqa\u201d \u2013 Jordan<\/strong><\/p>\n

institution: Instituci\u00f3 Mil\u00e0 i Fontanals, CSIC – Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Juan Jos\u00e9 Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Est\u00e9vez<\/p>\n

Project: “Two zero nine, Archaeological mission of the University of La Laguna for the study and conservation of TT 209, Luxor” \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de La Laguna<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Miguel \u00c1ngel Molinero Polo<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Project: “Zar Tepe in Bactriana. Buddhist Centre of the Kushan period in the hinterland of Termez (Surkhan Darya)” \u2013 Uzbekistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Ver\u00f3nica Mart\u00ednez Ferreras<\/p>\n

MUSEO VIRTUAL<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Project: “Research and excavation of the tombs from the First Intermediate Period in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, Aswan” \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de Ja\u00e9n<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Alejandro Jim\u00e9nez Serrano, Dr. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Alba<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “Archaeological project in Gird Lashkir: from the Zagros to the Erbil plain” \u2013 Erbil, Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Miquel Molist Monta\u00f1a<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Project: “At the top of the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga: seeking clues to understand the location and orientation of tombs and chapels” \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterr\u00e1neo y Oriente Antiguo, CSIC – Madrid<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Gal\u00e1n Allu\u00e9<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “Sikait Project” \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Joan Oller Guzm\u00e1n<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “Gird Banahilk (Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan) and the consolidation of agropastoral communities in the Zagros” \u2013 Kurdistan – Iraq<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Anna Bach G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

DOCUMENTALES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “Artisan Priests: The tomb of the Memphite high priest Sabu-Tjeti at Saqqara North (Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission to Saqqara), fourth campaign” \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Josep Cervell\u00f3 Autuori<\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “Archaeological\u2013paleontological excavations in the Ntem River estuary, R\u00edo Campo region” \u2013 Equatorial Guinea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC \u2013<\/strong> Madrid<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Antonio Rosas Gonz\u00e1lez, Dr. Antonio Garc\u00eda Tabernero<\/p>\n

MASTERCLAS<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: \u201cStudy of the Pleistocene records of the Engel Ela-Ramud \u201d \u2013 Eritrea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution:Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social (IPHES-CERCA)<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Bienvenido Mart\u00ednez-Navarro, Dr. Tsegai Medin<\/p>\n

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MASTERCLASS<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Project: “Early Acheulean in East Africa: Excavations at Loc 14” \u2013 Olduvai, Tanzania<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Historia, CSIC \u2013<\/strong> Madrid<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Ignacio de la Torre S\u00e1inz<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “FLK West (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) and the origin of the Acheulean in East Africa” \u2013 Tanzania<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de Valladolid<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Fernando Diez Mart\u00edn<\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “First human steps in South America: walking among Gonphotheres” \u2013 Chile<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution:Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social (IPHES-CERCA)<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Carlos Tornero, Dr. Erwin Gonz\u00e1lez-Guarda, Dr. Rafael Labarca<\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Project: “Kachchh Archaeological Project: excavations in Lakhapar and interactions with the Indus Valley” \u2013 India<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiolog\u00eda (IPNA), CSIC \u2013 La Laguna<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Francesc Cec\u00edlia i Conesa, Dr. Juan Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda-Granero<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Project: “Pampa Galeras. Approach to the knowledge of hunter-gatherer societies of the early Holocene in the Peruvian Andean highlands” \u2013 Peru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Jos\u00e9-Miguel Tejero C\u00e1ceres, Dr. Leslye Valenzuela Leyva<\/p>\n

Project: “Archaeology of indigenous peasant spaces and Spanish colonial estancias<\/em> in Catamarca (16th-18th centuries)” \u2013 Argentina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. F\u00e9lix Retamero<\/p>\n

Project: “In search of the origins of the Numidian civilisation: excavations and surveys at Sidi Sa\u00efd” \u2013 Siliana, Tunisia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Institut Cat\u00e0la d\u2019Arqueologia Cl\u00e0ssica (ICAC-CERCA)<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Mar\u00eda del Carmen Belarte Franco, Dr. David Montanero Vico<\/p>\n

Project: “Energy resources in prehistory. An approach from the ethnoarchaeology of combustible in Tanzania, Namibia and Sri Lanka” \u00a0\u2013 Tanzania, Namibia and Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social (IPHES-CERCA)<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Ethel Allu\u00e9, Dr. Lloren\u00e7 Picornell Gelabert, Dr. Aitor Burguet Coca<\/p>\n

Project: “Archaeology and Heritage in Cape Verde: the city-port of Ribeira Grande in the 15th-18th centuries” \u2013 Cape Verde<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad del Pa\u00eds Vasco \/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Javier Garcia I\u00f1a\u00f1ez, Dr. Andr\u00e9 Teixeira, Dr. Jaylson Monteiro<\/p>\n

Project: “Rock art of the In\u00edrida River, Colombia (Universidad de Alcal\u00e1 Universidad de los Andes, Museo comunitario del Guania)” \u2013 Colombia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de Alcal\u00e1<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Primitiva Bueno Ram\u00edrez, Dr. Carmen P\u00e9rez Maestro<\/p>\n

Project: “Revealing the ecosystems of our ancestors to preserve our own: past dynamics and distribution of South African biodiversity” \u2013 South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institutions: Universidad de Le\u00f3n, Nelson Mandela University<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Sa\u00fal Manzano Rodr\u00edguez, Dr. Lynne Quick<\/p>\n

Project: ” The human landscape of Thapsus, between the Mediterranean and the sebkha of Moknine” \u2013 Tunisia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Arqueolog\u00eda de M\u00e9rida (IAM), CSIC \u2013 M\u00e9rida<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n

Project: “C2 – Royal Cache Wadi Survey” \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n P\u00e9rez-Accino Picatoste<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cARVCODA \u2013 Archaeology of Plant Resources in the Atacama Desert Coast\u201d \u2013 Chile<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas (CSIC)<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. D\u00e9bora Zurro<\/p>\n

Proyecto: “ModAgrO: Modelling the Agricultural Origins and Urbanism in South Asia” \u2013 Pakistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Marco Madella<\/p>\n

MASTERCLASS<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

PODCAST HISTORIA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/a><\/p>\n

Project: \u201cReconstructing the San Juan River neighborhood: from survey to digitization\u201d \u2013 Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Directors: Dra. Natalia Moragas Segura, Dra. Alessandra Pecci<\/p>\n

Project:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cArchaeology of nomadic pastoralism in Mongolia. The invisible traces of domestic spaces\u201d \u2013 Mongolia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiolog\u00eda (IPNA), CSIC \u2013 La Laguna<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Natalia \u00c9g\u00fcez<\/p>\n

Project: “In search of Damot: a pagan kingdom of Ethiopia” \u2013 Ethiopia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT), CSIC \u2013<\/strong> Santiago de Compostela<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Alfredo Gonz\u00e1lez-Ruibal<\/p>\n

Project: “Semi-arid forest landscapes of South America: Reconstructing the paleoecology of plant resources used by hunter-gatherers” \u2013 Argentina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci\u00f3 Social (IPHES-CERCA)<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Andr\u00e9s Robledo<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cSocio-Ecological Evolution and human occupation Dynamics in pre-islamic Dhofar (SEED)\u201d \u2013 Oman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra<\/p>\n

Directors: Dra. Carla Lancelotti, Dra. Silvia Lischi, Dr. Stefano Biagetti<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cSailing between two waters. Archaeological evidence for identifying the itinerant Jesuit missions in the eastern islands of the Chilo\u00e9 archipelago, Chile (17th\u201320th centuries)\u201d \u2013 Chile <\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat de les Illes Balears<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Jaume Garc\u00eda Rossell\u00f3, Dra. Javiera Letelier, Dra. Margalida Coll<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cDemographic dynamics and agricultural innovation in the pre-Columbian Llanos de Moxos\u201d \u2013 Bolivia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/p>\n

Directors: Dra. Kate Dudgeon, Dr. Umberto Lombardo<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cProject for the documentation, cleaning, and conservation of burial chambers in Luxor (Egypt): sevent season\u201d \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterr\u00e1neo y Oriente Pr\u00f3ximo, CSIC – Madrid<\/p>\n

Directors: Dra. Luc\u00eda D\u00edaz-Iglesias Llanos, Dra. \u00c1ngeles Jim\u00e9nez-Higueras<\/p>\n

Project: <\/strong>\u201cWadi al-Garawi Dam Project (WaGDP)\u201d \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Institut d\u2019Estudis del Pr\u00f2xim Orient Antic \u2013 Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (IEPOA – UAB)<\/p>\n

Director: Dra. Roser Marsal Aguilera<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cThe Kiik Kamar Cave (Uzbekistan), key to the study of the Upper Paleolithic in Central Asia\u201d \u2013 Uzbekistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidade de Vigo<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Iv\u00e1n Rey-Rodr\u00edguez, Dra. Sara Varela, Dra. Ma\u0142gorzata Kot<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cEwass Oldupa: At the origin of technology and adaptation. Deciphering how the first Homo faced climate change in Olduvai Gorge\u201d \u2013 Tanzania<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid<\/p>\n

Directors: Dra. Mar\u00eda Soto Quesada, Dr. Julio Mercader Flor\u00edn<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cExcavations at the Lower Paleolithic site of Dalarik-1, Armenia \u2013 a rare glimpse into Middle Pleistocene lifeways\u201d \u2013 Armenia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha<\/p>\n

Directors: Dr. Theodoros Karampaglidis, Dra. Rosa Mar\u00eda Carrasco Gonz\u00e1lez, Dr. Artur Petrosian<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cEstimating 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)\u201d \u2013 Argentina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de Cantabria<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Diego Garate Maidagan<\/p>\n

\u00a0Project: \u201cBroken landscapes\u201d \u2013 Peru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution:\u00a0Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT), CSIC \u2013 Santiago de Compostela<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Manuel Felipe Criado Boado<\/p>\n

Project: \u201cMaritime archaeology and history of the War of Brazil; study of shipwrecks and a castaways\u2019 camp in Argentine North Patagonia, 1827\u201d \u2013 Argentina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de C\u00e1diz<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Nicol\u00e1s C. Ciarlo<\/p>\n

Project:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cNakali (Kenya), a site to understand our origins\u201d \u2013 Kenya<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont<\/p>\n

Director: Dra. Marta Pina Miquel<\/p>\n

Project:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cQaw El-Kebir Expedition\u201d \u2013 Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: Universidad de Ja\u00e9n – Universidad de Alcal\u00e1<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Alba G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n

\u00a0Project: \u201c<\/strong>Lecture Series: Archaeological research in Spain VII (2025-2026)\u201d \u2013 Madrid <\/strong><\/p>\n

Institution: MAN (Museo Arqueol\u00f3gico Nacional) – Madrid<\/p>\n

Director: Dr. Isabel Izquierdo Peraile<\/p>\n