Humanities & Social Sciences Projects
Evolving planet, archaeology and science in a game
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03 Mar 2016
Scientists of the CaSES research group, from the CSIC’s Institución Milá y Fontanals, have collaborated in the creation of the videogame “Evolving Planet”. The game has been developed in the frame of the Recercaixa Simulplay project, led by the scientist Xavier Rubio, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
A Neolithic village under the lake
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30 May 2014
When summer arrives, excavation works are resumed at the Neolithic site under the lake of Banyoles. It is one of the only three of its kind in the world. Discovered 25 years ago, this site is a window open to life in a Neolithic village. Research there is complemented with a program of activities that enable the discovery of this Millenary past.
Economic inequality, war and peace
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25 Nov 2013
Does economical inequality lead to social conflict? Is it possible to measure the factors lead drive to conflict? Is it possible to develop tools to avoid or to minimize it? Scientists at the CSIC's Instituto de Análisis Económico (IAE) work to analyze the social factors that increase the probability and severity of social conflicts.
RavalEsCiencia: the Raval, a 6000 years ago story
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08 May 2014
The citizens in Barcelona can know about their distant past through this scientific dissemination project.
First evidence of spices used almost 7.000 years ago
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10 Oct 2013
Garlic mustard was used as a spice 7,000 years ago, as archeologists from England, Spain, Denmark and Germany found out. The scientists have analyzed microfossils of food deposits from pots found at three archeological sites: Akonge and Steno (Denmark) and Neustadt (Germany).
