http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/rsscontents.jsp All the news on Recerca en Acció. Discover the research, experiment and participate en Recerca en Acció, Copyright 2009 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:21:00 +0100 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:21:00 +0100 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 60 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/img/rss.png http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/rsscontents.jsp http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20120109-message-20-the-.jsp Research diary. At last! We head home! Our suitcases are full of samples (and gifts, that we mustn’t forget!).  It has been a perfect archaeological campaign; one full month in the field with a memorable ending in the Kachchh. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:03:36 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111222-message-19-soon.jsp Research diary. The 2011 NoGAP expedition reaches its end. After a month in India and a lot of work it is time to go back home… or isn’t it? Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:29:27 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111219-message-18-unra.jsp Research diary. Digging up a burial is not an easy task, but with a little patience and a lot of skill there are many things that we can discover. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:08:20 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111215-message-17-an-u.jsp Research diary. Weeks go by and it is time to check how our expedition is going. Many things happened… some of them really unexpected! Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:20:00 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111214-message-16-in-m.jsp Research diary. Pep is the youngest member of our expedition, and we would like to know his opinion about India and our work in Gujarat. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:58:26 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111212-message-15-look.jsp Research diary. When we look at plant remains from archaeological excavations the main task is to be able to identify what we are looking at. In order to do this we need some reference material. We can find many books that help us identifying plants but it is much m... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:39:03 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111207-message-14-walk.jsp Research diary. In our project we are studying the transition from hunter-gathering to agro-pastoralism. To do so, we are investigating how Gujarat people used and managed the landscape and how environmental conditions could have affected or conditioned their decisi... Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:42:18 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111207-message-13-guja.jsp Research diary. Satellites? Google Earth? Aerial imagery is widely used in archaeological research. Here in Gujarat we use it for understanding landscape transformations and to find dunes and palaeolakes! Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:40:15 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111202-message-12-holo.jsp Research diary. The beginning of the Holocene some 12,000 years ago coincides with the slow but steady disappearance of hunter-gatherer communities worldwide. These are replaced by (or convert themselves into) communities dedicated to the domestication rather than h... Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:46:18 +0100 http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/en/diari/20111201-message-11-trad.jsp Research diary. Mumbai, the most prosperous cinema industry worldwide (yes! more than Hollywood!); Bangalore, providing hardware for most of the computers we use; Jaypee, the latest Formula 1 circuit. These big cities represent but one of India’s faces. But th... Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:17:17 +0100