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Archaeozoology
Animal husbandry
Animal mobility
Meat diet
Iron Age
Roman period
Western Mediterranean
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
Research lines
The principal aim of my research is the study of the interactions between societies and animals in the past. I use macro-faunal remains recovered from excavations as primary data and study these relationships in a number of different social settings. I focus on four main research lines: animal husbandry, trade, human diet and ritual practices. The study of these topics provides knowledge on important aspects for archaeology, such as social identity and cultural choices, inequalities and ideology or economic changes.
I am currently focusing my research in two main geographical areas of the western Mediterranean basin, Catalonia and Tunisia. In terms of chronology, my research focuses on the study of societies from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD, with a particular interest on Roman societies. I am integrating innovative methodological lines of research into the standard osteological approach, with the application of palaeogenetic analyses to study animal introductions and the development of Geometric Morphometric methods to study animal mobility.
Works on faunal assemblages from…
Spain
- Vila de Madrid
- Badalona
- Empúries
- Vilauba
- Ermedàs
- Mas Castellar de Pontós
- Sant Julià de Ramis
- Sant Sebastià de la Guarda
- Olius
- Olivet d’en Pujol
- Turó de la Rovira
- Can Rubió
- Llívia
- Castellot de Bolvir
- Baltarga
Research projects
TransLands: Paisajes mediterráneos transportados: un análisis integrado de las dinámicas de ocupación a largo plazo a ambos lados del Mediterráneo’. IP: J-M. Palet (ICAC), H. Orengo (ICAC). 2019-2021. Programa I+D.
The Roman conquest of Tunisia: an archaeozoological approach. IP: L. Colominas (ICAC); C. Touihri (Institut National du Patrimoine – Tunisie). 2019-2021.
Arqueologia dels paisatges culturals de muntanya a les capçaleres del Ter i del Segre (Ripollès-Cerdanya)’. IP: J-M Palet (ICAC), L. Colominas (ICAC). 2018-2021. Quadriennals de recerca en matèria d’arqueologia i paleontología.
Rere les passes de la transhumància a l’antiguitat: estudi de les pràctiques ramaderes i dels paisatges culturals als Pirineus Orientals a través de l’arqueozoologia’. IP: L. Colominas (ICAC). 2017-2020.
Featured publications
Colominas, L., Evin, A., Burch, J., Campmajó, P., Castanyer, P., Carreras, C., Guardia, J., Olesti, O., Pons, E., Tremoleda, J., Palet, J-M. 2019. Behind the steps of ancient livestock mobility in Iberia: new insights from a Geometric Morphometric approach. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11 (9): 4971-4982.
Colominas, L.; Antolín, F.; Ferrer, M.; Castanyer, P.; Tremoleda, J. 2019. From Vilauba to Vila Alba: Changes and continuities in animal and crop husbandry practices from the Early Roman to the beginning of the Middle Ages in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary International, 499: 67-79.
Colominas, L., Edwards, C., Beja-Pereira, A.,Vigne, J-D., Silva, R., Castanyer, P.,Tremoleda, J., Saña, M., Perez-Ripoll, M., Goyache, F., Howe, J., Barker, G., Bower, M. 2015. Detecting the T1 cattle haplogroup in the Iberian Peninsula from Neolithic to medieval times: new clues to continuous cattle migration through time. Journal of Archaeological Science 59: 110-117.
Colominas, L., Castanyer, P.; Tremoleda, J. 2014. Roman everyday cooking and eating: an interdisciplinary study of the remains recovered in the pantry at Vilauba villa (Girona, Spain). Journal of Roman Archaeology 27: 239-254.
Colominas, L. 2013. Arqueozoología y Romanización. Producción, Distribución y Consumo de animales en el noreste de la Península Ibérica entre los siglos V ane- V dne. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 2480.
Archeology associations
I’m member of different specialized research groups. I am founding member of the research group ‘Arqueocuina: cuina i alimentació en arqueologia’ (2018), I am member of the cooperation network ‘ZOOARCH’ since 2006, the ‘Catalan Society of Bioarchaeology’ (ACBA) and the ‘International Council for Archaeozoology’ (ICAZ) since 2009, the ‘Zooarchaeology of the Roman period Working Group’ since 2014, the ‘Grup d’Investigació d’Arqueologia del Paisatge (GIAP)’ since 2015 and the Association of Environmental Archaeology (AEA) and the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) since 2017.