The Reconquista gave us famous castles and kings. But what was it like for regular people? The ongoing Landscapes of (Re)conquest is exploring the lives of the frontier societies in the changing landscapes. 🔗 (🆓) buff.ly/2M3751g 📷: Excavating a medieval irrigation channel in 🇪🇸

Our team is going to participate at the virtual 27th annual meeting of the EAA with the paper leaded by Yaiza Hernández-Casas "SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND MINORITIES IN THE CASTLE OF MOLINA DE ARAGÓN (GUADALAJARA): AN APPROACH THROUGH ARCHAEOMETALLURGY AND ZOOARCHAEOLOGY".

Since 6th September part of our team headed by Luca Mattei is excavating in Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain), an iconic fortificated place for the study of frontiers in medieval Iberia.

Our team continues to excavate the impressive fortification of Atienza (Guadalajara, Spain), where a long-term occupation is being defined.

Final day of excavation in Atienza (Guadalajara). Trench 1, containing silos in the outer ward of the castle, is finished. Our team, in a very cold morning, is just figuring out the sequence of events in Trench 2, drawing the profiles and collecting micromorphology samples.

Our teammate, Michelle Alexander, finally received the samples for bone isotope analysis from our own archaeological excavations or from our partners. Show must go on!

Next year, at the meeting of the EAA in Budapest, we have a session on "Conquest, Migration and Cultural Change in the Medieval Mediterranean". You can submit papers (to session 51) until 10 February Please also share the flyer below! eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2022/

Call for paper for the next EAA has been extended until 14th February. Please, think about to submit a proposal for our session "Conquest, Migration and Cultural Change in the Medieval Mediterranean". European Association of Archaeologists MERC

Online seminar on historical and archaeological dissemination dedicated to the role of museums in the construction of narratives about the Middle Ages, organized by our teammate Marcos García García and Guillermo García-Contreras (communications and debates will be in Spanish).

18th symposia on Medieval Archaeology "Fortificaciones y territorio. 25 años" organized by our teammates Luca Mattei and Guillermo García-Contreras. 9th-10th June, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Granada. Conferences and debates will be done in Spanish.

Part of our team, headed by Rowena Banerjea, present the paper "The Microarchaeology of Castlescapes" at the conference "Microarchaeology: making visible the invisible archaeological record through high-resolution integrated approaches" Rome 26th-27th May eehar.csic.es/microarchaeolo…

This week the 18th Medieval Archeology symposia is being held at the University of Granada dedicated to "Fortifications and territory, 25 years later", co-organized by the teammate of the project Luca Mattei and Guillermo García-Contreras.

Next week our team will be at the 28th EAA Annual meeting in Budapest, where we have organized our own session. Check the program and join us if you are interested in medieval archaeology, castles, borders, migrations and paleoenvironmental changes. European Association of Archaeologists MERC

Our teammate Marcos García-García on behalf of our project has participated in the 1st ICAZ Medieval Period Working Group Meeting hosted by the Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen (20-30 september 2022). MarcosGG ICAZ Medieval period Working Group

Our project will be present in the "Iberisotopes: Iberian Isotopes Bioarchaeology working meeting (Granada, 3rd-4th November" with the paper "Isotopic adventures in Medieval Guadalajara: animal and human subsistence on the frontier" leaded by our teammate Michelle Alexander.

New paper by our teammate Yaiza Hernández-Casas "Morfometría y armamento medieval: las puntas de proyectil de Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)" in the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies doi.org/10.1080/175465…