22nd December 2024
Under the framework of Ethiopian Girls for Science, knowledge and technology transfer for staff members using smartphone as a colorimeter took action at Wolaita Sodo University.
5th December 2024
Good luck to our Mirco for his two years visiting period with Archéosciences Bordeaux under the frame of APOSTD postdoctoral grant.
16th November 2024
Sometimes results from non-invasive analytical methods can be misleading. Did you know that beeswax and plastic FTIR spectra are almost identical?
14th November 2024
Our Gianni was interviewed by Carolyn Y. Johnson (Washington Post) to give his opinion on the recent study of Pompeii's cast DNA.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/11/07/pompeii-victims-ancient-dna/
11th November 2024
Our colleagues Sonia and Clodoaldo participated at the 15th Iberic Congress of Archaeometry in Aveiro (CIA2024). Furthermore, Sonia has been elected secretary of the Society of Archaeometry applied to Cultural Heritage (SAPaC).
30th October 2024
Due to the catastrofic consequence of the storm in Valencian province and in accordance with the state of emergency declared by our institution:
The event "ArchaeChemis: ten years working together" of tomorrow 31st of October has been cancelled.
15th October 2024
Today we have carried out the workshop "Archaeo-Chemistry: decoding Matrix" at the Secondary school IES Salvador Gadea.
3rd October 2024
Our Alessia presented her work on the Islamic necropolises of Vall d'Albaida at the 17th National and International Congress of the Spanish Association of Paleopatology.
27th September 2024
Many thanks to all the participants to the ArchaeoScience workshop at the European Research Night!
18th September 2024
Congrats all for your bachelor and master students who got their degrees during 2023-2024 academic year. Working together was great!!!
Laura Bartual Moreno - Identification of human fingerprints in sediments by chemical analysis
Miranda Martínez Malonda - Archaeometry applied on the study of wall painting: analysis and quantification of ferric pigments
Iván Pérez Torralba - Characterisation and provenance study of Medieval mortars by ICP-MS and XRF
Irene Sáez Giménez - Chromatographic analysis of organic remains in archaeological sediments
Lola Simón Caicoya - Identification and characterisation of archaeological pottery by ICP-MS and XRF
Lisa Ximenez - Identification of human activities through the analysis of prehistoric sediments by ICP-MS and XRF
30th August 2024
We presented our works on lithic raw materials in the Valencian Community at EAA2024 meeting in Rome, and we collaborated in several other presentations.
25th July 2024
We presented our collaborative research in Archaeological Sciences at ICMUV.
18th July 2024
Our Gianni discussed with Carolyn Johnson from Washington Post about new discoveries on Pompeii (link).
18th July 2024
Visiting Cova de Bolomor with director Josep Fernández Peris.
4th July 2024
Working in Palermo on a case study of Cheminova project.
13th June 2024
Congrats to our Girma for his MSc in Chemistry!
13th June 2024
Congrats to our Alessia Larini for her PhD thesis defence!
5th June 2024
A workshop has been organised under the framework of NeoNets project, hosting the distinguished researchers Eamonn Devlin (National Center for Scientific Research DEMOKRITOS), specialist in Mössbauer spectroscopy, Nick Pearce (Aberystwyth University), investigating on Stonehenge, and Oscar Turull (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), working on AI development.
30th May 2024
Today we have carried out the workshop Arqueo-Química at the Secondary school IES 9 D'Octubre of Carlet (Valencia).
12th May 2024
Thanks to all who visited our Archaeochemistry workshop at Expociencia 2024!
10th May 2024
We are really greatfull to Wolaita Sodo University for having invited us to present our research lines at the 12th Annual National Research and Community Engagement Conference.
3rd May 2024
Rare Earths Archaeology has been applied to the stratigraphic sequence of the archaeological site of Alagankulam (India) to observe the cultural changes and showing trading with the Mediterranean region.
5th April 2024
Meanwhile, we are participating in the poster session of UKAS2024 organised by BioArch at York with our work "Identification of Treatment for Syphilis in post-Medieval Individuals by a Mercury Speciation Methodological Approach" presented by Paola Ponce (University of York).
4th April 2024
A review of our study on Pompeii casts has been chosen by Asociación RUVID for its magazine.
15th February 2024
A warm welcome to the master student Girma Agago from the Ethiopian Wolaita Sodo University, working with us on raw material analysis.
27th January 2024
Our Ginevra presented her project at the MonBones24 International Conference in Barcelona "Life and death of the Poor Clare nuns of the Holy Trinity in Monte Sant’Angelo (Puglia, South Italy)".
8th January 2024
Mockups for yellow, blue and green pigments were also tested for smartphone application. Have a look: