Excavations and fieldwork

EL ORIGEN DE LA RED ALDEANA EN EL ALTO ARLANZA (Burgos)The Alto Arlanza is part of the natural region of Pinares, located south of the Sierra de la Demanda and Urbión. It is a mountainous region, of medium altitude, forming part of the western edge of the Iberian...

Fàbrica de Cloratita 📍 Flix, Ribera d’EbreThe factory complex was built in 1923 for the production of chlorinated explosives. This project aims to work and make known the industrial spaces that were related to the daily life of the workers of the factory as well as...

Forn d’Oli de Ginebre de Mariano Agustí a Riba-roja d’Ebre  📍 Ribera d’Ebre, TarragonaArchaeological intervention to a proto-industrial oven for the production of juniper oil, a medicinal product for people and livestock used by societies of diverse geographies and...

Barraques mineres de Coll de Pradell. 📍 Vallcebre, Berguedà.The intervention and project aims to study and disseminate the living conditions of miners in Alt Berguedà and specifically those who worked in the former mines of Coll de Pradell, located in the village of...

El Cinglo Alt. Arqueologia de la Guerra Civil al front del PallarsThis is a project of archaeological intervention and historical analysis focused on the study of structures and materiality of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in the Pallars war front, specifically in...

Abric del Xicotó Alòs de Balaguer, La Noguera, LleidaXicotó Rockshelter is located in the eastern Pre-Pyrenean range, in the middle Segre River basin. Since 2013 archaeological Works have been developed by the SERP and up to three sedimentary levels have been...

Roman city of Aeso Isona, LleidaThe project on Aeso (Isona i Conca Dellà, Lleida) and its territory aims to explain the historical process that takes place in the eastern sector of the Pallars Jussà region, known as Conca Dellà, in the Iberian and Roman eras. Know how...

BUTRINT, ROMAN BUTHR OTUM (ALBANIA)The Anglo-Albanian excavations in the city of Butrint, Roman Buthrotum (Dir. Richard Hodges) were funded primarily by the Butrint Foundation and David Packard (Packard Humanities Institute, California). The excavations concentrated...

Carcassonne (Aude, Occitanie, France)ERAAUB team members Dr G. Ripoll and Dr F. Tuset lead the Spanish team of the architectural study of the fortifications on the site of Carcassonne, in the frame of the international project: Carcassonne, la Cité : étude, relevé et...

The Roman city of Clunia (ESPAÑA)The Colonia Clunia Sulpicia is located in the Alto de Castro (Peñalba de Castro, Burgos) the works on the site were directed by P, Palol first then by F. Tuset. The urban complex that extends over more than 130 hectares is a protected...

Cova del Parco Alòs de Balaguer, La Noguera, LleidaThe archaeological site of Cova del Parco has been excavated by the SERP since 1987. The site presents a long sedimentary sequence corresponding to several human occupations from the Final Upper Palaeolithic to the...

Early Christian Complex of Illa del Rei (Maò, Menorca)The Christian basilica is located in the eastern part of a small islet known as Illa del Rei, in the center of the port of Maò (Menorca). At the end of the 19th century, a mosaic was discovered. M.L. Serra...

Kach Kouch Oued Laou, Tetuán, MarrocThe projecte led by Hamza Benattia consists of the study of indigenous communities of northern Morocco between the Bronze Age and the arrival of the Phoenicians. The Kach Kouch excavation provides a lot of information to understand...

Roman villa of Llorís Isona, LleidaThis Roman villa, next to the town of Isona, was already the subject of a brief news, in 1878, by Joaquim Manel de Moner. Subsequently, however, its reference was lost, until it was identified again during the systematic surveys...

Montlleó Prats i Sansor, Cerdanya, LleidaThe open-air site of Montlleó, placed in the Cerdanya valley, at more than 1000 m above the sea level, is under excavation since 2000 from the SERP. Archaeological work has allowed documenting at least two distinct...

OLDUVAI (TANZANIA)The Olduvai Gorge, in northern Tanzania, is one of the most relevant paleoanthropological sites, since it has an important record of vertebrate fossils, including remains of hominids and lithic industry from Plio-Pleistocene and Pleistocene deposits....

Olèrdola (Alt Penedès, Catalonia)Olèrdola, located 50 km southern Barcelona, stands as an example of organizational policy of the new conquered area, the Penedès. At the beginning of the 10th century it had been incorporated into the county of Barcelona, having as a...

Pinnacle Point (MOSSEL BAY, AFRICA)The study at the sites of Pinnacle Point (Mossel Bay, South Africa) is chronologically framed at the time of the appearance of the first Homo sapiens. This archaeological complex includes around 50 caves and shelters located on the...

El Puig de Sant Andreu Ullastret, Baix EmpordàThe Ullastret settlement is the main focus of my doctoral thesis, however we are currently excavating the Istme area with the Ministery Project, defining the nature of urbanism and specifying the abandonment of the city at...

Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca): Roman and Late Antique cityThe Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia is located near the town of Alcudia in the northern part of Mallorca in a clear strategic position in the isthmus that separates two large bays known as the Bay of...

Turó de Céllecs Òrrius, MaresmeLocated on top of a hill, the closed settlement dominates the interior and central Catalan coast. We are currently working to obtain the complete sequence of the site by excavating the interior of the enclosures. It presents two...

Turó del Vent Llinars del Vallès, Vallès OrientalThe site is a specialized settlement and consists of a habitat and fortified silos field used between the IV and II BC. The works focus on a knowing their nature and understanding their textile, metallurgical and...

The Roman Villa of Sa Mesquida (Calvià, Mallorca)The site of Sa Mesquida, in the western part of Mallorca (Fig. 1), is one of the few examples of rural Roman sites that has been documented. Sa Mesquida was partially excavated in the 1980s and 1990s, followed by new...

SANT HILARI D’ABRERA (Baix Llobregat, Catalonia)The archaeological complex and heritage site of Sant Hilari is located to the east of the urban centre of Abrera, in a tip, next to the Llobregat river. The hermitage of Sant Hilari is an identification element of the...

Sant Quirze de Colera (Rabós d’Empordà, Alt Empordà, Catalonia)The first, necessary evaluation and interpretation of the monastic complex of Sant Quirze de Colera (Rabós d’Empordà, Alt Empordà) have been done in the frame of numerous excavations carried out during...

Ses Fontanelles shipwreck Bay of Palma, MallorcaAt the end of 2021, the Consell de Mallorca signed an Inter-institutional Collaboration Agreement with the University of Barcelona, the University of Cádiz and the University of the Balearic Islands for the development...

SIDILLÀ (Foixà, Baix Empordà, Catalonia)Sidillà (Foixà, Baix Empordà) is a site located on a small hill near the River Ter. It is known from the mid-20th century for having been buried under a fluvial dune by the11th century. Sidillà is a good example of rural...

Early Christian Complex of Son Peretó (Manacor, Mallorca)The site is located in the municipality of Manacor, in the eastern part of the island of Majorca, 6 km by the road that links this town with Sant Llorenç des Cardassar (fig. 1). It is located in a small hill,...

TERMEZ (UZBEKISTAN)The archaeological mission led by ERAAUB in Termez (Uzbekistan), called the International Pluridisciplinary Archaeological Expedition to Bactria (IPAEB), has shown itself to be one of the most important international archaeological projects in...

El Vilar Valls, Alt CampThe interventions of the last two years have exposed a new Iberian city on a large scale, which presents clear levels of violent destruction from the Second Punic War (218-202 BC). The objectives are to define the origin of the city and the...