DIRECTED PROJECTS
IP: Prof.ª Marta Blasco Martín (UV).
Title: Asir y decorar: empuñaduras de espadas en época ibérica (CIGE/2023/076)
Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo (2024-2025)
Purpose: This project focuses on the study of Iberian swords with hilt handles made of hard materials of animal origin such as bone and ivory. The focus is on technological, ornamental and contextual analysis. Thus, we focus on the understanding of specialized crafts and the circulation of these prestige goods in the Iberian period (6th to 1st centuries BC).
IP: Dr.ª Sirio Canós Donnay (UV).
Title: Archaeology of political complexity in West Africa (RYC2023-042577-I)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2025-2030)
Purpose: Mixed project including field work in West Africa, Europe and transfer activities.
Title: Reinterpretando Kansala
Funded by: Fundación BBVA, Beca Leonardo (2023-2024)
Purpose: Excavations in Kansala, ancient capital of the Kaabu Kingdom (Guinea-Bissau).
Title: Reinos del Sudan: arqueología comparativa de dos estados africanus (co-IP Dr. Alfredo González Ruibal, CSIC)
Funded by: CSIC, Proyecto intramural (2021-2022)
Purpose: Comparative spatial organization of the kingdoms in Senegambia and in the Horn of Africa.
Title: Pathiana Archaeological Landscapes Project, Senegal (844159-PALP)
Funded by: Comisión Europea, Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship (2019-2023)
Purpose: Historical-archaeological research (surveys and excavation) of the historical province of Pacaana (Senegal), royal territory of the ancient kingdom of Kaabu (12th-19th century AD).
IP: Dr.ª Carmen Cuenca García (UV).
Title: SENSING IBERIANSCAPES. Un acercamiento multi-escalar para detectar, explorar y digitalizar yacimientos indígenas de la Edad del Hierro y sus entorno en el este de la Península Ibérica
Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana, Consellería de Educación, Universidades y Empleo, Convocatoria CIDEGENT 2022 (2023-2027)
Purpose: Study of Valencian Iron Age settlements and other relevant sites linked to the Iberian culture in the peninsula, using a multi-scale and minimally invasive approach. By integrating advanced methods such as remote sensing, surface geophysics and soil analysis, we aim to explore, analyze and compare from vast landscapes to details of specific archaeological elements (https://www.sensingiberianscapes.es).
GRAM hired staff: Lucrecia Centelles Fullana (pre-PhD researcher) and Valeria Martín Sidro (Técnica Superior de Investigació)
IP: Prof. Agustín Díez Castillo (UV)
Title: Excavación de los geoglifos de la reserva extractiva Chico Mendes (Acre, Brasil) (BBAA2020-01)
Funded by: Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (2020-2022)
Title: Primera campaña d’excavació subaquàtica al vaixell romà del Moll de Sa Trona (Ciutadella, Menorca) (EXCMENORCA2024-L2-18)
Funded by: Consell Insular de Menorca (2024-2025)
Title: Re-excavació del derelicte del Sec (Mallorca): caracteritzant una empresa púnica (EXCIIBB2024-01)
Funded by: Consell Insular de Ibiza (2024-2026)
IP: Dr. Iván Fumadó Ortega (UV).
Title: Cartago y su territorio. Del 'rst púnico al pagus Zeugei, paisajes económicos y organización territorial (PGC2018-095280-A-I00)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2019-2022)
Purpose: The territory around the ancient city of Carthage (Tunisia) has hardly been archaeologically investigated and the data we have come either from ancient written sources or from the urban archaeological record. This project aims to lay the foundations for the archaeological exploration of a territory currently undergoing major transformation due to the growth of the city of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, in order to compare the periods before and after the Roman conquest.
GRAM staff as research team: prof.ª Carmen Aranegui Gascó
Title: Cartago y su territorio
Funded by: Fundación Palarq (2020-2025)
Purpose: Preliminary survey of the territory around the ancient city of Carthage (Tunisia) to evaluate the archaeological potential and the dangers of heritage conservation of the known sites, even though many of them are unpublished.
GRAM staff as research team: Prof. David Quixal Santos
Title: Caracterización arqueométrica de la ocupación del suelo en la periferia púnica de Cartago (Túnez): La villa de Gammarth (BBAA-2019-01).
Funded by: Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (2020-2022)
Purpose: Archaeological and archaeometric documentation of the architectural structures of the Villa of Gammarth, a residential complex with work spaces located 6 km north of the ancient city of Carthage, which has never been the subject of a stratigraphic excavation.
GRAM staff as research team: Prof.ª Carmen Aranegui Gascó, Prof. Carlos Gómez Bellard, Prof. David Quixal Santos and Prof. Pere Pau Ripollés Alegre
IPs: Dr. Iván Fumadó Ortega y Prof. David Quixal Santos (UV).
Title: Paisajes económicos y organización territorial del periodo púnico a la romanización: estudio comparado entre las áreas de Cartago (Túnez) y las de Arse/Sagunto y Sucro (PID2022-139214NB-I00)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2023-2027)
Purpose: The territories of the ancient city of Carthage and those framed between the Palancia and Júcar rivers share a series of geomorphological and cultural characteristics that, during the 3rd-1st centuries BC, with the Carthaginian expansion, the confrontation and defeat against Rome and the subsequent integration into the late Republic and the Roman Empire, invite a comparative study of the dynamics of occupation of the territory and the exploitation of natural resources in both contexts.
GRAM staff as research team: Prof.ª Marta Blasco Martín, Prof. Carlos Gómez Bellard and Prof.ª Sonia Machause López
Prof. José Luis Jiménez Salvador (UV)
Title: Amphispania. El Anfiteatro de Carthago Nova (Cartagena): Documentación, Análisis Geométrico-Arquitectónico y Estrategias de Musealización (PID2023-149285NB-C41), (co-IP José Miguel Noguera Celdrán, Universidad de Murcia).
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2024-2028)
Title: Vivere in urbe. Arquitectura residencial en las ciudades de Carthago Nova, Valentia y Lucentum. Investigación y socialización (105376GB-C41), (co-dirigido con José Miguel Noguera Celdrán, Universidad de Murcia).
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2020-2024)
Purpose: Analizar los procesos de implantación, desarrollo y transformación de la arquitectura residencial en las ciudades romanas de Hispania, tomando como ejemplo sus capitales (Tarraco, Corduba, Emerita y Carthago Nova) y algunas comunidades cívicas destacadas por el valor de su registro arqueológico (Valentia, Lucentum, Torreparedones, Ampurias…).
GRAM staff as research team: Prof. Ferran Arasa i Gil
IP: Prof.ª Sonia Machause López (UV).
Title: Deep in caves: Ritualidad ibérica en contexto
Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital (2023-2024)
Purpose: To establish a methodology to comprehensively analyze the archaeological record of Iberian ritual caves. For this reason, sensory variables will be taken into account, in direct relation to the archaeological evidence and its landscape.
Title: STALAC-RITE: Análisis espectroscópicos para la caracterización y procedencia de espeleotemas en contextos rituales ibéricos edetanos (ss. VI-I a.C.). (co-IP Dr. Gianni Gallello, UV)
Funded by: Fundación Palarq (2024)
Purpose: To investigate the origin of stalactites and stalagmites found at the site of El Castellar de Casinos, exploring their possible origin in ritual caves in the territory of the Iberian city of Edeta and the importance of ritual travel between habitat sites and caves. It uses non-destructive techniques such as pXRF and LA-ICP-MS to analyze the elements of the samples and establish chemical relationships between the archaeological speleothems and the caves.
IP: Dr. Guillem Pérez Jordà (UV).
Title: Cambio y continuidad en el mundo agrario de las islas Baleares y de Cerdeña a lo largo del I milenio a.e. (PID2020-118033GB-I00) (co-IP Prof.ª Yolanda Carrión Marco, UV)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2021-2025)
Purpose: To study the evolution of agricultural and livestock practices and their impact on ancient environmental conditions on the islands of Sardinia, Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera.
GRAM hired staff: Carmen Chulvi Escribá (pre-PhD researcher CIDEGENT)
Title: Un nuevo modelo agrícola: frutales, hierro y comercio durante el I milenio a.e. (FRUITCOM)
Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Innovación, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital (2020-2026)
Purpose: To study the evolution of agricultural activity in the Valencian Country from the beginning of the 1st millennium until the Roman conquest.
IP: Prof. Pere Pau Ripollés Alegre (UV).
Title: Ancient Coinage as Related Cultural Heritage (PCI2018-092877)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2018-2021)
Purpose: To establish a platform for the study, conservation, cataloguing, archiving and maintenance of the numismatic heritage of the ancient world, focusing on the pre-imperial issues of Iberia/Hispania and southern Gaul, through the implementation of a specific online reference tool (Moneda Ibérica, MIB) [https://monedaiberica.org/]
COLABORATIONS IN OTHER PROJECTS
Prof. Ferra Arasa i Gil (UV)
Title: Creando narrativas en la arcilla: desentrañando cambios económicos y socioculturales a lo largo de los períodos visigodo y omeya en la Península Ibérica oriental (ARTISAN) (PID2023-153086NB-I00).
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2023-2026)
IPs: Dr. Josep Maria Macias Solé (ICAC) and Dr. Francesc Rodríguez Martorella (ICAC).
Purpose: To consolidate a ceramology research line in a time period from the formation of the Visigothic kingdom and the consolidation of al-Andalus (from the end of the 5th to the 9th century), between the northern coast of the ancient Carthaginensis province and the southern Tarraconensis province, focused in the cities and hinterlands of Tarragona and Valencia.
Dr.ª Sirio Canós Donnay (UV).
Title: XSCAPE: Material Minds (951631)
Funded by: EuropeaN Comission, ERC Synegy Grant (2024-2029)
IPs: Dr. Felipe Criado Boado (CSIC), Dr. Luis Martínez, Dr. Johannes Müller and Dr. Andy Clark
Purpose: Application of eye tracking techniques to connect neuroscience and archaeology, in order to study the impact of the material world on our mind and vice versa.
Title: A Town of Three Worlds: Archaeology of Violence and Cosmopolitanism in the Slave Trade Port (RFF-2019-145)
Funded by: National Geographic Foundation, Rust Family Foundation (2022)
IP: Porf. Rui Gomes Coelho (Durham University)
Purpose: Excavations in the port-city of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau.
Title: Connecting the lower middle Niger through borrowed words and shared objects (SPP 2143 – Entangled Africa)
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2019-2020)
IPs: Henning Schreiber (Universität Hamburg) and Nikolas Gestrich (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Purpose: Connecting the lower middle Niger through borrowed words and shared objects: Archaeo-linguistic network analysis and modelling of cultural entanglements between the Malian Sahara and the Nigerian forests (AD 700-1500).
Dr. Iván Fumadó Ortega (UV).
Title: Die Circus Projekt. Die deutschen Ausgrabungen in Karthago
Funded by: Auswärtiges Amt, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (2015-2023)
IPs: Ralf Bockmann (DAI Rom)
Purpose: Excavation of the Roman circus area of Carthage (Tunisia) to clarify the occupation of that urban space during the Punic period, to date of construction of the monument and its integration in the urban configuration of the Roman colony, as well as its phases of remodeling and abandonment.
Dr. Guillem Pérez Jordà (UV).
Title: Modelling interactions between climate change and agriculture in the ancient west
Funded by: Agènce nationale de la recherce (2023-2026)
IP: Laurent Bouby (CNRS)
Purpose: To study the climate change impact on agricultural strategies from the end of the 2nd millennium BC to the 7th century AD.
Prof. Víctor Sabaté Vidal (UV)
Title: Hacia una Epigrafía Comparada: formas, textos y funciones de las inscripciones ante coctionem del Occidente romano (EpiCom) (PID2023-147994NB-I00)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2024-2028)
IP: Prof. Javier Velaza Frías and Prof.ª Alejandra Guzmán Almagro (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: (https://webgrec.ub.edu/cgi-bin/3DADREC/critem.cgi?PAR=019676&QUE=PJDG).
Title: Lenguas paleohispánicas y géneros epigráficos: soportes, escrituras, formularios (PID2023-147123NB-C43)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2024-2027)
IP: Prof.ª Noemí Moncunill Martí (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: https://webgrec.ub.edu/cgi-bin/3DADREC/critem.cgi?PAR=020152&QUE=PJDG .
Title: La ciutat d’Aeso (Isona) i el seu territori a les èpoques ibèrica i romana (CLT/2022/ARQ001SOLC/165)
Funded by: Generalitat de Catalunya (2022-2025)
IP: Prof. Ignasi Garcés Estallo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: The objective of the project is threefold: the archaeological excavations in the Roman city of Aeso (Isona) and in the Roman villa of Llorís; the survey and study of its territory; and the revision of the related museum collections.
Title: Escrito para los dioses. Escritura y ritualidad en la Península Ibérica antigua (EscRit) (PID2019-105650GB-I00)
Funded by: Generalitat de Catalunya (2022-2025)
IP: Prof. Javier Velaza Frías and Prof.ª Alejandra Guzmán Almagro (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: https://webgrec.ub.edu/cgi-bin/3DADREC/critem.cgi?PAR=015567&QUE=PJDG.
Title: Estudio paleográfico, lingüístico y funcional del corpus epigráfico ibérico (EPaLFI) (PID2019-106606GB-C33)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (2020-2024)
IP: Prof. Noemí Moncunill Martí (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: https://webgrec.ub.edu/cgi-bin/3DADREC/critem.cgi?PAR=015494&QUE=PJDG.
Title: Dinàmiques de la ciutat i del territori d’Aeso (Pallars Jussà) en època ibèrica i romana (CLT009/18/00025)
Funded by: Generalitat de Catalunya (2018-2021)
IP: Prof. Ignasi Garcés Estallo (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: The objectives are: A) improve the knowledge of the layout and limits of the Roman City in the late Republican and Imperial phases; b) deepen the knowledge of its degree of Romanization; c) broaden the knowledge of the protohistoric and Roman Isona and its environment; d) document the territorial implantation; e) evaluate the process of transformation of the Roman city and the passage to new forms of social and economic power in the late Roman world.
Title: Escritura, cultura y sociedad en el conventus Scallabitanus (FFI2015-68571-P)
Funded by: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (2016-2020)
IP: Prof. Javier Velaza Frías (Universitat de Barcelona)
Purpose: https://webgrec.ub.edu/cgi-bin/3DADREC/critem.cgi?PAR=013071&QUE=PJDG.
Title: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) (PUAI1984-MAYER)
Funded by: Institut d’Estudis Catalans (2015-2025)
IP: Dr. Marc Mayer i Olivé (IEC)
Purpose: Edition and study of the Latin epigraphy of the Catalan Countries. The project is included in the framework of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), which is an important program of the International Academic Union (IAU) in which the Institut d'Estudis Catalans participates covering the related territories. (https://iec.cat/recerca-v/projecte1.asp?codi=PUAI-CIL).
