
Humanities
Keywords
Archaeometry, Culture, Heritage, Palaeo-environment, Population, Territory
Structure
Consortium
Partners
Government of Catalonia, Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Inter-university Council of Catalonia (CIC)
Founded
2000
Contact
www.icac.cat
Pl. Rovellat, s/n – 43003 Tarragona
Tel. +34 977 249 133
info@icac.cat
Tarraco, a site for the study of classical civilisations
The remains of ancient Tarraco are the setting for the ICAC, an institute devoted to research, training and dissemination of the knowledge provided by classical archaeology, specifically the ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean: Greek, Roman and others directly related to it.
The centre’s research focuses on the archaeology of ancient cities; the archaeology of landscape, population and territory; materials and trade in the ancient world; and classical archaeology and artistic productions.
The ICAC also organises three cross-disciplinary methodology programmes, which include environmental and palaeo-environmental archaeology, archaeometry, ICT applied to archaeology and textual sources, epigraphy and numismatics.