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¿Quiénes construyeron las primeras ciudades? 14 Noviembre, 2024Entrevista del diario El País a Ada Cortés Vicente, doctora en Arqueología, profesora lectora de la Universidad de Barcelona. La pregunta sobre quiénes construyeron las ciudades nos la hemos hecho mucho a...

CONFERENCE: Greek trade in the Mediterranean in antiquity 17-18 October, 2024The conference aimed at specialized audiences, professionals, and students of archeology and history.  The MAC presents the scientific days "Greek trade in the Mediterranean in antiquity", a...

The GRAMP-Med team concludes the archaeological campaign in Alto Arlanza (Burgos) with exceptional results. 02 September 2024The GRAMP-Med team has successfully completed its archaeological campaign in the Alto Arlanza region, located in the province of Burgos. This...

Paul Reynolds and a New Classical Archaeology 21 September, 2021 Classical archaeology is now in a well-advanced revolution. With time, this will upend age-old notions of the Greeks and Romans, as well as their myths. Writers ranging from Shakespeare to Nobel prize...

Gisela Ripoll Archaeologist:  "Archaeology is a Very Vocational Discipline" 14 August 2024 She is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, specializing in Late Antiquity on the Iberian Peninsula. She has devoted special attention to Visigothic period...

Prof. Marta Sánchez de la Torre became a Full member of the Young Academy of Europe 31 July 2024 The Young Academy of Europe (YAE) is organized as a bottom-up initiative of a dynamic and innovative group of recognized European young scholars with outspoken views about...

The IAUB and the MAC signed an agreement that strengthens collaboration between the institutions that reaches back over 90 years. 09 July 2024The Director of the IAUB, Dr. Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, introduced today’s event by pointing out that: "The Institute draws...

Evidence of Paleolithic art is documented at the Simanya Gran site (Sant Llorenç Savall, Barcelona) 02 July 2024Archaeologists from IPHES-CERCA and the University of Barcelona have discovered Paleolithic rock art in Simanya cave. This discovery represents one of the...

The Beatriz Galindo grants help to attract new research talent at the University of Barcelona 14 June 2024The researchers Ivan Briz, Claudia Climent, Clara Juárez, and Albert Gandioso have been given the Beatriz Galindo grants, awarded by the Ministry of Science,...

A time capsule of Roman period on Palma’s most touristic beach 02 May 2024DIVING ARCHAEOLOGISTS INSPECT THE ROMAN WRECK ON PALMA BEACH, IN AN IMAGE BY ARQUEOMALLORNAUTA.300 AMPHORAE WITH MORE THAN 100 INSCRIPTIONS, COINS AND FOOTWEAR RECOVERED FROM A 4TH CENTURY WRECK...

Gobernar el caos. Una historia crítica del Ejército españolFrancisco Gracia Alonso 25 March 2024El Ejército de la Monarquía Hispánica constituyó el principal instrumento para la consolidación del Imperio español, y también el factor determinante para retrasar su...

The climate change through thousands of years is studied in Tierra del Fuego. 02 of November 2023A team of Spanish and Argentine archaeologists has launched an ambitious project whose objective is the in-depth study of the southern shell hills, which they consider a...

I Scuola Intrenazionale di Studi Dottorali  "Fonti per la storia dell'economia europea (secoli XIII-XVII)" Le reti commerciali e finanziarie.   9 - 13 of October 2023 The School, coordinated by Prof. Amedeo Feniello, aims to represent an opportunity for meeting,...

Three books from Edicions UB have won the Joan Lluís Vives publishing awards.   17 of July 2023 We are very happy with the editorial quality of our University. The works “La Terra en perill”, “Esclaus a Empúries” and “Història de vida de Mari Chordà” have been awarded...

Marta Sánchez de la Torre, the new member of the Youth Academy of Spain.  15 of June 2023 Marta Sánchez de la Torre, a researcher in the Department of History and Archeology, has been CHOSEN as a new member of the prestigious Young Academy of Spain. This distinction...

"Families prioritise removing the dead" (Els familiars prioritzen treure els morts).  14 of June, 2023  Yesterday, our colleague Queralt Solé was interviewed by the journalist Gemma Nierga in a TV program called Cafè d'idees of RTVE, to talk about historical memory. ...

The call for the Ana María Muñoz Amilibia Award for undergraduate theses and the Mercè Roca Roumens Award for master's theses with a gender and intersectionality perspective, from the Institute of Archeology of the University of Barcelona which has just to publish The...

The second phase of pre-registration for the Master of Advanced Studies in Archaeology is now open.  10 de maig de 2023 

Avui, la Marta Sánchez de la Torre ha estat entrevistada per Àngels Barceló al programa Hoy por Hoy de la Cadena SER per a parlar d'Arqueologia.  3 de maig de 2023 Avui, la Marta Sánchez de la Torre ha estat entrevistada per Àngels Barceló al programa Hoy por Hoy de...