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Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge (2013)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., & Miró i Alaix, C. (2013). Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge. Water History, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-013-0090-2

This paper presents the results of the ‘Roman Barcino Water Network’ Project. This study employed a series of methodologies aiming at joining and interpreting all data available on water supply, distribution, management, use and discharge in the Roma... Read More about Reconsidering the water system of Roman Barcino (Barcelona) from supply to discharge.

Thucydides and Hesiod (2013)
Journal Article
Finglass, P. (2013). Thucydides and Hesiod. Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, https://doi.org/10.1400/222506

The puzzling reference by Thucydides, during his account of Demosthenes’ Aetolian campaign in 426, to the death of Hesiod, can be explained as an instance of foreshadowing through myth: Hesiod’s tragic end prepares the reader for the tragic consequen... Read More about Thucydides and Hesiod.

Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? (2013)
Journal Article
Orengo, H. A., Palet Martínez, J. M., Ejarque, A., Miras, Y., & Riera-Mora, S. (2013). Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?. Antiquity, 87(337), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00049474

The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitc... Read More about Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy?.

Roman portraiture and biometric identification (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schofield, D., Lorenz, K., Davy-Jow, S., & Anderson, M. Roman portraiture and biometric identification. Presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2012)

This project utilised three-dimensional scanning technology in the study of ancient Roman art and archaeology: Roman representations of faces executed in marble.

In the cultural heritage sector, three-dimensional (3D) scanning finds its primary ap... Read More about Roman portraiture and biometric identification.

Following Roman waterways from a computer screen: GIS-based approaches to the analysis of Barcino’s aqueducts (2011)
Book Chapter
Orengo, H. A., & Miró, C. (2011). Following Roman waterways from a computer screen: GIS-based approaches to the analysis of Barcino’s aqueducts. In J. Verhagen, A. Posluschny, & A. DanielisovÃ�Â�Ã�¡ (Eds.), Go your own least cost path: spatial technology and archaeological interpretation: proceedings of the GIS session at EAA 2009, Riva del Garda. Archaeopress

From the 1950's until today the Roman colony of Barcino (modern Barcelona) has been believed to posses two aqueducts. One was transporting water from the Montcada mountains and the other one from the Collserola range. In this article, GIS-based least... Read More about Following Roman waterways from a computer screen: GIS-based approaches to the analysis of Barcino’s aqueducts.

The Roman centuriated landscape: conception, genesis and development as inferred from the Ager Tarraconensis case (2011)
Journal Article
Palet Martínez, J. M., & Orengo, H. A. (2011). The Roman centuriated landscape: conception, genesis and development as inferred from the Ager Tarraconensis case. American Journal of Archaeology, 115(3), https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.115.3.0383

Although centuriation was only one system of Roman land division, its impact on the landscape and its visibility in modern field arrangements make it the most commonly recognized expression of Roman landscapes. Centuriated grid systems are usually an... Read More about The Roman centuriated landscape: conception, genesis and development as inferred from the Ager Tarraconensis case.

Networks and narratives: a model for ancient Greek religion? (2011)
Journal Article
Eidinow, E. (2011). Networks and narratives: a model for ancient Greek religion?. https://doi.org/10.4000/kernos.1925

Polis religion has become the dominant model for the description of ritual activity in ancient Greek communities.Indeed,scholars have invoked polis religion to try to resolve the much-debated question of the definition of magic vs. religion, arguing... Read More about Networks and narratives: a model for ancient Greek religion?.

The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines (2010)
Journal Article
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. (2010). The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines. Seminar.net, 6(1),

Brett Bligh and Katharina Lorenz of The University of Nottingham, present the Multi-Display Learning Spaces (MD-LS) in this article. It comprises technologies to allow the viewing of multiple simultaneous visual materials, modes of learning which enc... Read More about The rhetoric of multi-display learning spaces: exploratory experiences in visual art discipines.

Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bligh, B., & Lorenz, K. Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method. Presented at Technology and 'the death of Art History' CHArt Annual Conference

The trajectory and heuristic success of Art History as a discipline has always been inseparably linked to the technical means of visualizing the material that is at its core. When in the late 19th century first analogous, then double-slide projection... Read More about Vorsprung durch Technik: multi-display learning spaces and art-historical method.