Jose Ignacio Fiz Fernández

Universitat Rovira i Virgili | URV · Department of History and Art History

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones or RPA) in archaeology has expanded significantly over the last twenty years. Improvements in terms of the reliability, size, and manageability of these aircraft have been largely complemented by the high resolution and spectral bands provided by the sensors of the different cameras th...

This article presents the first results obtained from the use of high-resolution images from the SAR-X sensor of the PAZ satellite platform. These are in result of the application of various radar image-treatment techniques, with which we wanted to carry out a non-invasive exploration of areas of the archaeological site of Clunia (Burgos, Spain). T...

The wall of Puig Rom is a significant architectural piece for the Visigothic period in the Alt Empordà. Our research has extended the useful life of the nucleus from the middle of the seventh century until the Frankish period and allows adding a perduration as agropastoral nucleus to the function of territorial control of the castrum. The ongoing a...

The Roman city of Clunia (nowadays the Spanish province of Burgos) became the capital of the Tarraconensis conventus with the Augustan provincial reform, which provided a major boost for its urban development. The suitability of the city's location is evident by the fact it was built on a plateau concealing an underground karst cave that provided d...

Resum El poblat del Puig Rom és un monument clau per a la comprensió del període visigòtic a terres empordaneses. La recerca arqueològica relativa a aquest horitzó és particularment complexa, atès que es produeix una modificació en el patró d'assentament que havia caracteritzat l'Alt Imperi, amb l'aparició de nous nuclis de caràcter heterogeni, fru...

The widespread implementation of GIS-based 3D topographical models has been a great aid in the development and testing of archaeological hypothese s. In this paper, a topographical reconstruction of the ancient city of Tarraco, the Roman capital of the Tarraconensis province, is presented. This model is based on top ographical data obtained through...

This paper presents the results of the application of certain statistical methods and GIS functions on the known data of the ager Tarraconensis settlement, located in the territory of the Tarraco colony. The study focuses on a chronological period covering the Iberian period to the 3rd century AD. The methods used have allowed us to model and expla...

The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the environment that had its origin in the pre-Pharaonic period. The annual Nile flood had been tamed and managed for centuries by the societies of the Nile delta. However, by the nineteenth century, attempts to modernize Egypt according to Western standards l...

A wide range of archaeological work has been carried out in Tarragona, from the inception of this science in the renaissance in the 16th century to today. It is due to this, that we have found it necessary to organise and register all studies performed in this city, so that they may be included in the diachronic context of the city. This task has b...

Topographical models has been a great aid in the development and testing of archaeological hypotheses. In this paper, a topographical reconstruction of the ancient city of Tarraco, the Roman capital of the Tarraconensis province, is presented. This model is based on topographical data obtained through archaeological excavations, old photographic do...

Societies exchange knowledge, ideas and merchandise throughout their territories. Topography plays a fundamental role in the trajectory of such movement s while helps explaining the distribution of human constructions. Standard GIS functions have been employed widely to simulate communication routes between settlements, but the straight application...

El presente articulo sintetiza los trabajos realizados en el marco del Seminari de Topografía Antiga (SETOPANT)de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) para construir un SIG que recoja la información arqueológica obtenida en el curso de todas las intervenciones realizadas sobre la ciudad de Tarragona. El artículo se centra en los aspectos referente...

Unlabelled: We studied vocalization in 18 men with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) (age, 49 [7.5] years; body mass index [BMI] 33.6 [7.6]) and 10 normal men as a control group (age, 46.7 [6.2] years; BMI 24.6 [2.2]). Polysomnographic data for patients with OSAS were as follows: total sleep time (TST), 387.5 [27.9] min; awake, 17.6 (12.6% T...

Presentamos aquí los métodos y técnicas aplicados hasta este momento para restituir la topografía de la colonia romana de Cosa. Para la realización de este trabajo se han utilizado técnicas de fotogrametría con un conjunto de fotografías aéreas del área arqueológica tomadas desde un globo no tripulado entre el 2008 y 2011. Para una ortorectificació...