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...

We are privileged workers. We have always known it. We travel around the globe, we do research, we investigate, we meet cool people. Yet,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Disclaimer: this entry is a very personal reflection on how I think archaeology is too often presented to the public, both general as...

Although RAINDROPS has its own well-established three case studies, one of use has made a discreet foray into South African archaeology...

Yesterday the latest issue of PAGES magazine, a journal published by the Past Global Change Initiative, came out. The issue, edited by...

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...

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,...

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...

Next week I am going to Pakistan for the first project's fieldwork. Actually, it's three projects' fieldwork combined: RAINDROPS (keep...

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-...

The first RAINDROPS event will be to co-host a one-day conference on Trends in Multidisciplinary Archaeology. This conference is part of...

Once the selection process is over, you receive several communications from the ERC. First you get the results of the external experts...

Five months after submission (almost to the date) you get a communication through the participants portal. Subject: Initial information...

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...