Ongoing projects

BeBamb
We explore how our species adapted to the tropical environment of SE Asia during Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, how we used plant resources and how the forest influenced our technology.

Flint quarrying activities in NE Iberia
The project aims on the study of raw material sourcing, processing and distribution taking as a case study the prehistoric quarries located along the hills of Serra Llarga.

LITOcat project – Creation of a reference collection of siliceous rocks from NE Iberia
LITOcat’s project main objective is to create a research platform open to the scientific community interested in the availability of siliceous rocks throughout prehistoric times.

Mines, miners and variscite
The main objective of the project is to resume archaeological research in the Ferreres sector of the Neolithic variscite mines of Gavà.

Publication of the Neolithic sites of Tell Qarassa
Qarassa 3 is a hamlet (12 dwellings) of a Natufian community of hunter-gatherers whereas Tell Qarassa North is an Early Neolithic village dated at the mid-9th millennium cal BC.

QUANT – A quantitative approach to Neolithic plant-working techniques: from assessing tool use to modelling human dispersals
QUANT project aims to highlight different traditions in plant-working techniques, determining how these were disseminated across the Mediterranean during the Neolithic expansion.

The protection of heritage
This project aims to use digital tools to support from a distance the NGOs and local organisations devoted to the protection of historical-archaeological heritage in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Libya.

The spread of the Neolithic in the central-western Mediterranean: agriculture, technological innovations and 14C
The project is aimed to analyse the Neolithic diffusion processes through the Central-Western Mediterranean by means of the analysis of techniques and tools related to crop-harvesting.

ZooMWest – Zooarchaeology and Mobility in the Western Mediterranean: husbandry production from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity
We are investigating whether transhumance existed in prehistoric Europe and evaluating the impact of political systems on mobility and animal husbandry production at a European scale.