3…2…1…let’s start with the stable isotope analyses
Four weeks have passed since my last day in the office…and even more since my last lab work, how I miss those days! I have started to...
Resilience and Adaptation to Drylands
Identifying past water management practices for drought-resistant crops
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Stefano
- 23 de mar de 2020
- 1 min.
Working during COVID lockdown....and dreaming of fieldwork!
We are privileged workers. We have always known it. We travel around the globe, we do research, we investigate, we meet cool people. Yet,...
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Abel
- 10 de sep de 2019
- 6 min.
The adventures of an ethnoarchaeologist in Ethiopia
May 13th, 7 p.m. We finally got there. After one of the shortest 20 hours trips of my life we finally got to Adigrat. Yes, I know… Where...
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Carla
- 27 de ago de 2019
- 2 min.
New project publications
While on holidays (yes, we all got to enjoy nice off-time with families during August! ;-) the research did not stop completely and, as a...
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Carla
- 18 de abr de 2019
- 1 min.
We are hiring!
So, you know when you look at the PEOPLE page and you see that one missing picture right at the center of the page? We are looking to...
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Francesca
- 19 de mar de 2019
- 3 min.
Plant growing experiments at ICRISAT
It has been two months since I arrived at ICRISAT. In less than one day I realised that this is a calm and green paradise inside India,...
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Carla
- 10 de oct de 2018
- 4 min.
The role of archaeology today (as I see it)
Disclaimer: this entry is a very personal reflection on how I think archaeology is too often presented to the public, both general as...
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Stefano
- 11 de jul de 2018
- 1 min.
First contact with Botswana’s southern drylands: A possible spin-off?
Although RAINDROPS has its own well-established three case studies, one of use has made a discreet foray into South African archaeology...
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Carla
- 8 de jun de 2018
- 2 min.
RAINDROPS' seed published!
Yesterday the latest issue of PAGES magazine, a journal published by the Past Global Change Initiative, came out. The issue, edited by...
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Marco
- 4 de abr de 2018
- 2 min.
Return to the Past! Back to Sindh (Pakistan) after 20 years
In the late 80s and early 90s, when I was still a youngish PhD student, I went for the first time to Sindh to work with the Italian...
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Carla
- 26 de mar de 2018
- 3 min.
JASPAR
There are so many things to do and fix after coming back from fieldwork that it has taken some time to write this blog entry. However,...
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Carla
- 22 de feb de 2018
- 2 min.
First fieldwork in Sindh: checking potential locations for ethnoarchaeology and isotopes transects
The main aim of this first fieldwork is very much to organise future fieldworks. The targets of this trip are mainly two. On the one hand...
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Carla
- 15 de feb de 2018
- 3 min.
We are going to Pakistan
Next week I am going to Pakistan for the first project's fieldwork. Actually, it's three projects' fieldwork combined: RAINDROPS (keep...
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Carla
- 10 de ene de 2018
- 1 min.
Archaeology day at UPF
Yesterday has been a very busy day. The Archaeology day at UPF was a blast. I have never seen so many different - yet very related-...
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Carla
- 13 de dic de 2017
- 2 min.
Let's start! One-day conference on Multidisciplinary Archaeology
The first RAINDROPS event will be to co-host a one-day conference on Trends in Multidisciplinary Archaeology. This conference is part of...
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Carla
- 6 de dic de 2017
- 2 min.
Behind the curtains (after I got the project). Part III: getting the project ready to start.
Once the selection process is over, you receive several communications from the ERC. First you get the results of the external experts...
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Carla
- 29 de nov de 2017
- 5 min.
Behind the curtains (or how I got the project). Part II: the interview.
Five months after submission (almost to the date) you get a communication through the participants portal. Subject: Initial information...
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Carla
- 22 de nov de 2017
- 3 min.
Behind the curtains (or how I got the project). Part I: the application.
I like the idea of starting the NEWS section of RAINDROPS' s webpage with something that it is not technically a new story. But I believe...
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