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Bioarchaeology platform

Bioarchaeology Laboratory (Archaeozoology and Archaeobotany)

The Bioarchaeology laboratory has the necessary facilities and infrastructures for the study of bioarchaeological material (fauna, seeds, charcoal, etc.). It has a dirty area where the material is washed and floated, and a clean area where its classification and analysis are carried out. The facilities of the Bioarchaeology laboratory are used for teaching and research at a national and international level. The laboratory also has reference collections of animal bones and seeds for the study of archaeological material. It also has reference atlases and optical microscopy equipment and scanners.

Facility

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Institutional Contacts / Head of Facilities

AG

Arnau Garcia

Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)

Provisional Contacts

Main Contact(s) of Facility

Staff

CERCA Institutes

Tarragona, Spain

2000

Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)

Owners

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Address

Link

https://icac.cat/en/services/scientific-facilities/bioarchaeology-lab/

Equipments & Services Offered

Equipments

– Reference collections of animal bones and seeds. – Refrigerator and freezer for the storage and preservation of bioarchaeological remains that require it. – Microscope and binocular magnifying glasses. – Scanner. – Digital cameras. – Precision scales. – Agate mortars.

Services

– Information and advice on the treatment and study of bioarchaeological material. – Washing, flotation and selection of sedimentary samples to obtain carbonized coals and seeds. – Carrying out studies of bioarchaeological material.

Categorització

RIS3CAT domains & other

Domains

RIS3CAT Domains

CERCA GINYS Categories

CERCAGINYS code

GINYS-ICAC-004

Access procedure & Fares

Access procedure

Open

Availability

Papers

Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach

Salazar-García, D.; Colominas, L.; Jordana, X.

CERCA GINYS Papers

Mediterranean polyculture revisited: olive, grape and subsistence strategies at Palaikastro, East Crete, between the Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age

Livarda, A., Orengo, H.A., Cañellas-Boltà, N., Riera-Mora, S., Picornell-Gelabert, Ll., Tzevelekidi, V., Veropoulidou, R., Marlasca Martín, R. and Krahtopoulou, A.

CERCA GINYS Papers

Supplying the Roman army? Animal production and consumption in the countryside of north-eastern Iberia (Can Rubió, la Garrotxa)

Colominas, L.; Olesti, O.; Guàrdia, J.; Harzbecher, K.

CERCA GINYS Papers

Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan

Bode, L.J.K., Livarda, A. and Jones, M.D.

CERCA GINYS Papers

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