The excavations by the URV and IPHES-CERCA have also found the remains, seemingly intact, of other animals such as a horse, a woolly mammoth and at least three bears
Show all news from "Department of History and History of Art"
A study published in Nature Communications, with the participation of IPHES-CERCA and URV, documents composite technology dating back 160,000 years
A study led by the IPHES and involving the URV assigns the oldest human remains found at Atapuerca to the species Homo affinis erectus and confirms that Western Europe was populated by two species of hominin more than a million years ago
Texts by the Department of History and Art History highlight the expertise of these women whose voices were ignored by the prevailing sexist attitudes of the day
The target audience of the courses, which are already available, are those people who have newly arrived from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the professionals from the companies and organizations who welcome them
During the second edition of the Digital Twins conference they focused on techniques such as photogrammetry, virtual reality and storytelling, and analysed their role in the preservation and dissemination of heritage
The documentary is based on the European project “Lessons for the present: Rotspanier, Spanish forced laborers in World War II. The European (dis)memory of anti-Fascism”, led by a research group from the URV
Consisting of 54 pieces from at least three individuals, this is the most important Neanderthal collection in Catalonia and one of the most important in the Iberian Peninsula
The URV and the IPHES are taking part in an intervention that has confirmed that the cave was used as a camp for a long period of time and has identified rock art produced using a so-far undocumented technique
The URV has started to use digital twins in the degrees in History and the History of Art and Archaeology, and also in research. The use of these technologies raises new debates and the need for critical reflection from a humanist perspective
Joan Maria Thomàs, professor of Contemporary History at the URV, has verified the importance of the images and recommended they be donated to the Documentary Centre of Historical Memory
The research by the URV’s SBRLab group focuses on people from Latin America and the Caribbean. The results have been presented at a conference in Tarragona
The URV professor and IPHES researcher will lead the SCAVENGERS project, in which he will investigate the interaction between carnivores and humans in prehistoric habitats.
The exhibition is part of the activities of the 1st Cycle of Contemporary History and the Current World “Thinking historically about current affairs”, organized by the ISOCAC research group of the URV
The project led by the URV takes the exhibition and the documentary about the Rotspanier to Brussels. Students from the secondary school in Alcover present the work they have done on memory recovery for the project’s teaching unit.
This international organisation provides greater insight into the scientific understanding of prehistory and protohistory, the period from the origins of humanity to the end of the Iron Age.
The students have taken part in the excavation campaign this year and the researchers are studying the organisation of one of the most important cities in the province of Tarragona using satellite, drone and thermal camera images
The informative workshops in Reus and the Antoni de Martí i Franquès scientific tour of the city complete a weekend devoted to scientific communication.
URV professor Joan Maria Thomàs participates in this international project, which aims to raise awareness of the military conflict and its impact
To find out, the researchers have generated a 3D model, the first of its kind in this type of geological structures