Josep Maria Macias Solé- PhD Archaeology
- Researcher professor at Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica
Josep Maria Macias Solé
- PhD Archaeology
- Researcher professor at Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica
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Introduction
Josep Maria Macias Solé currently works at the Research team of Late Antiquity and Early Christian Archaeology, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology. Josep does research in Archaeology, Historical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Their current project is 'Acropolis of Tarraco (Hispania Tarraconensis).'
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October 2013 - present
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- Màster Oficial Interuniversitari (ICAC-URV-UAB)
January 2009 - December 2017
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Without the shadow of a doubt, Tarraco was Rome’s gateway to the Iberian Peninsula and a crucial city for understanding the historical and ideological evolution of our classical past. Even today, the modern city of Tarragona is a fount of knowledge that constantly provides new information and raises new scholarly questions. This document offers an...
The application of mass data capture systems in the topographic surveys of the Roman circus of Tarragona improves and facilitates our overall understanding of a building covering 4 hectares, much of which is hidden below the historical quarter of the modern town. This task constitutes the starting point for the overall understanding of the processe...
Following an extensive archaeological excavation programme in the episcopal centre of Egara, the project continued with the graphic documentation of the Sant Miquel building and an analysis of its construction features. The application of photogrammetric documentation and laser scanning techniques has provided new elements for reflecting on a build...
La problemática principal en el estudio de la cerámica común es la regionalización u atomización cultural que reflejan los numerosos contextos hoy conocidos. Esta es una característica muy relevante de la ceramología tardoantigua y conlleva la asunción de que sus análisis adquieren solamente un carácter complementario y restringido a cada una de su...
The palace of Pla de Nadal (Riba-roja de Túria, València) is one of the emblematic buildings of the civil architecture of late-antique Hispania. Despite the exceptional nature of its architectural decoration and two epigraphs, referring to a certanin Tebdemir/Teudemir, there is not unanimity about the promoter and the historical context of the buil...
Called dolium/a by the Ceremology research, due to the conservation of features resembling the well-known Republican and Imperial vessels, these smaller size containers were also used for food storage and for the daily life of the Visigothic society. We suggest a new quantitative and qualitative approach to the more significant features, observed i...
The availability of dense point clouds for the assessment of ancient buildings has become reality in recent decades. This continuous and detailed information facilitates an analysis of cultural heritage as it had not been possible to carry out previously. Thus, it is possible to study their shape and metrics, giving a new interpretative analysis an...
The Acropolis of Tarraco has been the subject of numerous archaeological interventions focused on understanding the seat of the Concilium Prouinciae Hispaniae Citerioris of the Flavian period. However, research on its late-antique urban transformation and Christianisation lacks concrete data, making each urban dump of this period a valuable chronol...
We present a brief state of the question on the evolution of Tarraco to Tarracona during the Late Antiquity or Visigothic Hispania, depending on how you look at it. The last provincial capital, under the control of the Empire in Hispania, maintained its economic and religious relevance during the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo, adapting to the new mo...
This article describes the process of discovery and investigation of the Amphitheatre, the site of which occupied a privileged suburban space on the coast of Tarragona. The patronage of the Bryant Foundation made it possible to accelerate the excavation of a monumental complex, where a public show building became a religious space and, finally, a p...
Today, anthropic morphologies in river deltas are widespread. The natural morpho-dynamics interact with engineered structures or urbanisation and shape hybrid features not grasped in traditional natural classifications of deltas. However, it is challenging to reconstruct the trajectory of the shifting balance between the natural and the anthropogen...
Desde el siglo pasado, los vertederos de la Acrópolis de Tarragona nos han dotado de información relativa a un momento histórico aún por profundizar: la transformación del recinto sacro de la antigua sede del Concilium Prouinciae Hispaniae Citerioris. En este contexto, marcado por importantes cambios políticos, administrativos y religiosos, la evol...
This dataset contains the ceramic samples studied at the communication conference at SECAH 2024.
Gutiérrez, I., Rodríguez, F., Macias, J. M., Las ánforas del vertedero del claustro de la Catedral de Tarragona (s. V d.C.), VII Congreso de la SECAH. La Cerámica en los complejos portuarios marítimos de la Península Ibérica (Lisboa 2024).
The reconstruction of the human impacts on the morphodynamics of river deltas in the long term is challenging. The ternary diagram of Galloway (1975) used to classify morphodynamics of deltas does not include direct human influence which is now affecting most of the deltas of the world. The study of human-dominated deltas requires specific approach...
The main results obtained during the last excavations carried out in the roman villa on Mas dels Frares (2018-2021) allow us to better understand the main characteristics of a residential and productive settlement situated at less than 6 km away from the roman city of Tarraco. The villa reflects the common dynamics and evolution of this territorium...
La Acrópolis de Tarragona ha sido objeto de numerosas intervenciones arqueológicas que han puesto el foco en la comprensión histórica y urbanística de la sede del Concilium Prouinciae Hispaniae Citerioris. Sin embargo, la investigación centrada en la transformación urbanística y la cristianización ideológica tardoantigua de este recinto de poder ad...
The results obtaines in the València la Vella project introduce this archaeological site into the scientific debate on forming new cities in Visigothic Hispania. Our research argues that it was a Visigothic city built during the reign of Liuvigild and in a context of confrontation against the Bizantine Empire. The research has already provided enou...
El desarrollo de la Arqueología de época visigoda en las últimas décadas de la investigación hispánica representa el descubrimiento de una realidad cultural y patrimonial que rompe con la tradicional imagen regresiva atribuida a las postrimerías de nuestro pasado clásico.
Las jornadas tienen por objetivo la confrontación y difusión de los resultado...
The study of new 7th and early 8th century pottery contexts in the port area of Tarragona has allowed us to update our archaeological knowledge of the trading networks involving this Hispanic Mediterranean town in the late Visigothic period. The results show that the Tarraconensian port was connected by sea with the main focal points and distributi...
We present two small ceramic contexts recovered in the fortified enclosure “València la Vella”, inside the territory of the city of Valentia. The study provides evidence for the continuity of commercial relations in a fortified nucleus located 20 km from the Mediterranean coast.
Three-dimensional model of the Roman Circus of Tarragona in the Ancient Roman city. Its location was an atypical case in Circus architecture, which preferred to occupy large spaces outside the walls in order to reduce the costs of expropriation and construction and so achieve extensive racetracks. The construction of Roman Circus ended in Domitian...
Three-dimensional model of the Roman Circus of Tarragona in the Middle Ages. The roman circus was the medieval suburb between XIIth-XIVth centuries. After XIVth walls the area was urbanized. It’s currently an active part of historic center.
With the medieval re-occupation of Tarragona in the 13th century, the area surrounding the Circus became subu...
This Circus is one of the best preserved of Roman Empire. Exceptionally it was built within city walls and has determined medieval urbanism of Tarragona. Three-dimensional model of the monumental area of the Roman Circus, today integrated into the historic center of Tarragona. The model combines the museographic areas with the actual urbanism, defi...
Three-dimensional model of the Medieval castle built above ancient roman tower. This tower connected the circus with upper forum. The Circus-Praetorium is an area of approximately 3,240 m2 that has become one of the city's iconic sights.
Photogrammetric and three-dimensional partial models of the cavea of the Roman Circus. It presents the external communication to Trinquet Vell street with the ima cavea (the lowest part of the cavea and the one directly surrounding the arena) and the summa cavea (the highest section).
Partial three-dimensional model of the Sedassos square. Southern side of the Roman Circus grandstand.
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
This book is the result of a teaching and research project carried out by members of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Technical School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Both institutions have joined forces to set up an interdisciplinary working space that provides university teaching and r...
Tarraco was the ancient capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, a Roman province in the Western Mediterranean. It was a strategic enclave and one of the most important ports during the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. The archaeological record of the city shows a variety of imported products arrived from several regions including a significant amount of...
Point cloud files en format LAZ obtained using a terrestrial laser scanner in the Roman circus of Tarraco (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain). Specifically, information is presented on the Antiga Audiència, the Roman Circus, Plaça La Font, Plaça Sedassos and the Praetorium. The Tarraco circus was exceptionally built within the late republican city walls....
Pocas civilizaciones han sido objeto de juicios tan contradictorios como la bizantina. Si para un sector la Roma de Oriente alcanzó altas cotas de esplendor cultural y refinamiento; para otros, encarnó la decadencia del mundo antiguo y buena parte de los estereotipos del medieval. El propio Justiniano, ya en su misma época, fue amado y odiado a par...
We present a small collection of algerian lamps recovered in 5 th century archaeological contexts of Tarragona. Most of the catalogue comes from the ancient temenos of Imperial Cult of the Flavian Concilium Prouinciae architectural complex, and the rest from the port area of the city. These lamps are scarcely documented in Hispania and reveal trade...
Biblical Museum Tarraconense is located in the building known as the Casa dels Concilis, next to the Cathedral. The building consists of a unique architectural palimpsest, indicative of the phenomenon that is the urban transformation of Mediterranean cities. Since 14th December 2020, the museum’s facilities have included a new interpretative space...
The site of El Bovalar is one of the best exponents of the settlement pattern in the Northeastern Hispania during the Visigoth period. The complex, comprising a basilica, a necropolis and a residential area, has been excavated during the second half of the 20th century and the documentation of the archaeological record presents severe problems. The...
València la Vella, a new and very important fortified settlement of 5 hectares, emerged at the end of the 6th century. The site is 16 km away from Valentia on the Turia river. This new city was made ex novo, so it was necessary a great building effort. In addition to the large walled enclosure, three quarters andseveral public buildings have been l...
This collection is the result of a dissemination project by ICAC and the Tarraconense Biblical Museum, with the help of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology. The diachronic evolution of the Acropolis of Tarragona is explained, focusing on the surroundings of the Biblical Museum. Three-dimensional models from the museum's epigraphic col...
The thermal architecture of Tarraco, the capital of the provincia Hispania citerior, experienced an intense activity between the 1st and 7th centuries. This document defends the existence of a minimum of three public thermae and more than fifteen private balnea. These data, pending a detailed study, reflects the social acceptance of thermal practic...
An intense constructive activity was developed in certain places and times in Valentia and
around between the 6th and 8th centuries. The construction of the monumental episcopal center in the first half of the 6th century changed the urban landscape. The new buildings (cathedral, baptistery, mausoleum and others) continuously and selectively used a...
An intense constructive activity was developed in certain places and times in Valentia and around between the 6th and 8th centuries. The construction of the monumental episcopal center in the first half of the 6th century changed the urban landscape around the Roman Forum. The new buildings (cathedral, baptistery, mausoleum and others) continuously...
We present a critical review of the development of urban archaeology in the Roman circus of Tarragona, a 4 hectares area in the historic center of the city that preserves many remains from different periods. The absence of a permanent coordinating institution has led to the development of different models of intervention with unequal results. An ov...
The use of massive data capture techniques in architectural heritage has enhanced the development of new methodologies that have an important impact on their conservation and understanding. The research proposes the study of formal anomalies in the cloister of the Cathedral of Tarragona (c. 12th century). It is a relevant Gothic construction in Cat...
The aim of this article is to show a detailed overview of latest archaeological works in one part of Tarragona's port area. During the Visigothic period the harbour of Tarracona, ancient city of Tarraco, the capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, became the main urban and economic asset and the results there obtained provide us a better knowledge than...
We present the first results obtained in the archaeological research project carried out in València la Vella between 2016 and 2018. In these first campaigns we documented the settlement topographically and dug stratigraphic verification trenches. We have also started to document the section of the wall most damaged by actions in the twentieth cent...
Edición de las II Jornades Internacionals d'Arqueologia de Riba-roja de Túria (València), celebradas en esta población entre los días 8 y 10 de noviembre de 2017.
The aim of this article is to afford a new vision about the archaeological discussion of Late Antique church of Saint Peter of Tarracona, mentioned in the Liber orationum festivus, named as ‘Oracional de Verona’ and dated to the beginning of 8th century. It’s an analysis based on the application of new graphic documentation techniques around the Ro...
Amphorae from Palestine, Turkey, the Aegean and other areas of the eastern Mediterranean are frequently documented in Late Antique
archaeological contexts in northeastern Spain, in relation to the transport of wine and other products. In order to gain further information on their compositional variability, provenance and production technology, a se...
The 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry (LRCW 7) will be held in València, Riba-roja de Túria and Alacant (15-19 October 2019). The conference will be organized by the Municipality of València (Secció d’Investigació Arqueològica Municipal de València)...
The paper presents the detailed analysis of the current state of structural deformations of a Visigothic funerary church with a square foor plan and an “inscribed” Greek cross is made. The laser scanner documentation constitutes the metric base that facilitates the identifcation of the variations suffered by the factory based on an optimal and theo...
Excavación arqueológica agosto 2019 (Riba-roja de Túria, València)
Branched chain amino acids (BCAA) are essential elements of the human diet, which display increased plasma levels in obesity and regained particular interest as potential biomarkers for development of diabetes. To define determinants of insulin resistance (IR) we investigated 73 genes involved in BCAA metabolism or regulation by fine-scale haplotyp...
Gene candidates (n = 79) for the study of BCAA metabolism in MetS.
After exclusion, there were 73 genes included in the genetic study. Genes absent from MEDISCOPE GeneChip and excluded from the study are indicated in grey; Genes for which imputation procedure failed are indicated in bold
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Association of 104 SNPs with IR in four genomic regions in French and Romanians.
Significant SNPs after Bonferroni and/or FDR corrections are indicated in S4 Table.
aFor intergenic SNPs, the closest upstream or downstream genes are indicated; bTested allele; cStatistical significance assessed by logistic regression using basic model; Chr, chromosom...
Haploreg analysis of SNPs effective on IR and/or BCAA.
Transcription factor binding motifs changes are indicated for each individual SNPs associated with IR (S5 Table) and/or individual BCAA plasma level (Correlation Trend Test). SNPs are indicated in corresponding haplotypes effective on IR and/or BCAA as shown in Tables 2–4.
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The most significant short (4 SNPs) haplotypes associated with insulin resistance from sliding window.
The sliding window was applied to imputed SNPs in French and Romanian populations using a windowing of 4 SNPs. Positive associated haplotypes were classified by P-significant value (Bonferroni correction was not applied). The most significant hits...
The most significant associated SNPs with IR in French and Romanians and replication extended to other Mediterranean populations.
Genomic regions were identified by sliding window and corresponding SNPs were tested independently for association with IR. P-values of all 104 SNPs are indicated in S5 Table.
aThe closest upstream or downstream genes ar...
Clinical and laboratory features of MetS and control subjects in French population.
Data are presented as mean ± SEM. Controls and MetS groups were compared using Mann-Whitney test for numerical variable and χ2 for nominal variable.
a, NA stands for non applicable, NS stands for non-significant; b, In defining hyperglycemia, hypertension, high trig...
Association of haplotypes with BCAA plasma levels in French population.
BCAA plasma levels (μmol/L) were evaluated in French population between non-carriers and carriers in ANOVA. Significant values are indicated in bold and statistical significance levels as * for P < 5 x 10−2 and ** for P < 5 x 10−3.
aAssociation of each haplotype with IR (direct...
Correlation between total plasma BCAA levels and insulin resistance in French population.
Left panel, correlation between BCAA levels and HOMAIR index of insulin resistance. Right panel, correlation between BCAA levels and insulin sensitivity index SI. Predicted HOMAIR index values were calculated from body mass index (BMI) and residuals indicated...
Phenotype features of patients with and without insulin resistance for genetic study.
aControls and IR groups were compared using Mann-Whitney test for numerical variable and χ2 for nominal variables; bIn defining hyperglycemia, hypertension, high triglycerides and low HDL nominal variable, treatment of pre-diagnosed type 2 diabetes, high blood pre...
Reconstruction of haplotypes with PHASE 2.1 program and association (χ2 test) with insulin resistance from HAPLOVIEW.
Genomic regions are indicated in the text and the LD blocking structure is depicted in Fig 2. Only frequent (> 0.1) and significant associated haplotypes are indicated in Table 2.
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In the current city of Seròs (Catalonia) there is the visigothic settlement of El Bovalar, about 23 km from the episcopal see of Ilerda city, in the ancient prouincia Tarraconensis. It is a site, partially excavated between 1967 and 1987, composed bay a Paleo-Christian basilica and various residential and productive structures around it. We present...
The article offers an overall analysis of changes undertaken in Hispanic architectural culture between 6th-7th century. This process was consequence of social and political transformations of Late Antiquity, and its architecture shows us a diversified reality, where several types of constructions and technical solutions reflect the variety of socia...
With this first circular we would like to inform you that the 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry (LRCW 7) will be held in València, Riba-roja de Túria and Alacant (15-19 October 2019). The conference will be organized by the Municipality of València...
An integrated geophysical survey has been conducted at the Tarragona’s Cathedral (Catalonia, NE Spain) with the aim to confirm the potential occurrence of archaeological remains of the Roman Temple dedicated to the Emperor Augustus. Many hypotheses have been proposed about its possible location, the last ones regarding the inner part of the Cathedr...
Branched-chained amino acids (BCAA) are essential dietary components for humans and can act as potential biomarkers for diabetes development. To efficiently estimate dietary intake, we developed a BCAA database for 1331 food items found in the French Centre d’Information sur la Qualité des Aliments (CIQUAL) food table by compiling BCAA content from...
The latest archaeological finds in Tarragona port area have provided new data that it must have an effect in the problematic disappearance of visigothic Tarracona before the irruption of early al-Andalus (c. 713-714). This article focuses on the difficulty of establishing chronological dates based on pottery deposits study. Its coastal situation fa...
We are not the first to deal with the Roman circus of Tarragona, perhaps one of the most drawn Roman buildings of the Iberian Peninsula, although the insistence in its documentation has not produced a complete and convincing planimetry. The complicated articulation of the circus with the historical centre of the city makes it difficult to elaborate...
In the framework of Project ‘ARREL’ several Massive Data Capture Systems (MDCS) have been tried, with the goal of documenting the Roman circus and its current urban context. This has enabled us to construct the stage of a serious game but, at the same time, we have been able to set up an online site of the architectural reality of this historical p...
In the current city of Terrassa (Catalonia) there is the ancient Episcopal See of Egara (centuries V-VIII). Founded around 450 AD, the Episcopal area is formed by three churches Sant Pere, Sant Miquel and Santa Maria. With the step of the centuries the episcopium has suffered several transformations. This project has done the graphic documentation...
Roman Circus of Tarraco The roman circus was the medieval suburb between XIIth-XIVth centuries. After XIVth walls the area was urbanized. It's currently an active part of historic center.
https://sketchfab.com/udg-icac/collections/roman-circus-of-tarraco
Basilica St. Fructuòs Tarragona Martirial Early-Christian basilica built around 400 AD with a funerary use throughout the 5th century. This buiding had three naves and an east-facing semicircular apse. Various mausoleums were annexed to the northern nave. https://sketchfab.com/udg-icac/collections/basilica-st-fructuos-tarragona
Circus of Tarraco The roman circus was the medieval suburb between XIIth-XIVth centuries. After XIVth walls the area was urbanized. It's currently an active part of historic center.
https://sketchfab.com/udg-icac/collections/roman-circus-of-tarraco
