LA MARMOTTA AT THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS (EAA) 2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING

The EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS (EAA) 2020 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING took place on 24-30 August of 2020. The EAA Annual Meetings bring together colleagues from all over Europe and beyond to discuss important issues in archaeological research, heritage, commercial practice, ethics, and the latest results of fieldwork. With over 1,800 presentations and more than 150 sessions, the EAA has become a key event of the archaeological scene in Europe.

The session PLANTS MEET ARTIFACTS: DEVELOPING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY PLANT PROCESSING AND USE IN ARCHAEOLOGY bring together specialists on the study of different archaeological artefacts (e.g. pottery, ground stone and flint tools), archaeobotanists (plant macro- and microremains), biomolecular archaeologists (organic residue analyses) and experimental archaeology to discuss current approaches to identify plant use in the past.

The oral paper OF PLANTS AND GRINDING STONE TOOLS: PHYTOLITH AND USE-WEAR FUNCTIONAL EVIDENCE FROM EARLY NEOLITHIC LA MARMOTTA (LAKE BRACCIANO, ITALY), was presented by Marta Portillo and colleagues from the IMF-CSIC, CNRS, ReGiraRocs, and the Museo delle Civiltà / Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”.

More info:
https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2020virtual

Recently We have presented our project around the La Marmotta Neolithic site at:

- Conference at the "Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR-CSIC)" with the title "El asentamiento neolítico de La Marmotta: un proyecto apasionante para un yacimiento excepcional".

You can see the conference at:

https://youtu.be/yzJEdjPepr4

- Mario Mineo has presented La Marmotta site in the Museo delle Civiltà in the program "Oggetto del mese":

https://youtu.be/9IxMSuDPsUQ


Thanks for their collaboration to the Museo delle Civiltà and Spanish National Research Council (represented by the Istitución Milá y Fontanals, Barcelona (IMF-CSIC) and Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR-CSIC).

Migration, adaptation, innovation: The spread of Neolithic harvesting technologies in the Mediterranean

A new article with data from our projects has been published in PloS One:

Migration, adaptation, innovation: The spread of Neolithic harvesting technologies in the Mediterranean

The article is OpenAccess at the following page:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0232455

Thanks to our colleagues all across the Mediterranean that made this study possible.

New Book: Use-wear Analyses of Polished and Bevelled Stone Artefacts during the Sepulcres de Fossa/ Pit Burials Horizon (NE Iberia, c. 4000–3400 cal B.C.)

We are very pleased to announce that our colleague Alba Masclans has published her book Use-wear Analyses of Polished and Bevelled Stone Artefacts during the Sepulcres de Fossa/ Pit Burials Horizon (NE Iberia, c. 4000–3400 cal B.C.) (BAR International Series, S2972), which is now available to order at https://www.barpublishing.com/use-wear-analyses-of-polished-and-bevelled-stone-artefacts-during-the-sepulcres-de-fossa-pit-burials-horizon-ne-iberia-c.-40003400-cal-b.c..html