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
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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
Despite currently having a small-scale excavated area, it has been possible to distinguish several moments of occupation and, within them, to identify areas of activity
Torrential rains in Barranco León allowed the first hominins to opportunistically take advantage of an accumulation of raw materials
Its name, Canis orcensis, is dedicated to the Andalusian town where it has been found
Some of the samples were obtained from Atapuerca, a confirmed international benchmark for genetic studies of the first hominin populations
For the fourth consecutive year, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili appears in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Chemistry and Chemical Engineering retain their places and two more have been added: Archaeology and Medicine, which until now had not featured on this list
The presence of macaques in northern Africa dates back to the upper Miocene, about 6-7 million years ago. Shortly thereafter (about 5,5 million years ago), first representatives are found in Europe (Spain and Italy), which migrated on during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Now, an article published in Journal of Human Evolution and led by research staff from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), the Universitat Rovira i Virgili