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Resilience and Adaptation to Drylands
Identifying past water management practices for drought-resistant crops
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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...
ALESSANDRA VARALLI
14 abr 20203 Min. de lectura
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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,...
Stefano
23 mar 20201 Min. de lectura
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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...
Abel
10 sept 20196 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
27 ago 20192 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
18 abr 20191 Min. de lectura
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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,...
Francesca
19 mar 20193 Min. de lectura
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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...
Stefano
11 jul 20181 Min. de lectura
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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...
Marco
4 abr 20182 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
22 feb 20182 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
15 feb 20183 Min. de lectura
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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-...
Carla
10 ene 20181 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
13 dic 20172 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
29 nov 20175 Min. de lectura
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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...
Carla
22 nov 20173 Min. de lectura
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