Jordi López Vilar

Biography

Jordi López is a doctor in Prehistory, Ancient History and Archeology from the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (2004) with a thesis on the Paleo-Christian basilicas of Tarraco. He has been linked to the Rovira i Virgili University for eight years working as an Archaeological Service technician. During this period, he has directed a quarantine of urgent excavations mainly in Tarragona and its territory. He has also carried out cataloging activities for heritage (archaeological chart) and dissemination as a scientific advisor to the model of the Roman Tarraco. He is the director of the Archaeological Bulletin published by the Royal Archaeological Society of Tarragona, where he has also coordinated several seminars. He has obtained the Pons d'Icart research prize in its fourth edition (1993). He is the author of more than a hundred articles mainly on Palaeochristian archeology, funerary worlds, Roman spas, villas and rural areas, epigraphy, numismatics and ceramics. He is the author of the books La vila romana de la Barquera (Perafort, Camp de Tarragona) (1993); The Paleo-Christian basilicas of the western suburb of Tarraco (2006) and Roman architectural terraces. The findings of Plaça de la Font (2008), the latter jointly with Lluís Piñol. He has also been co-editor of the books The use of water in Roman cities (1993); Valls and its history. Prehistory and Ancient History (2008); and Acts of the international Symposium L'ager Tarraconensis. Landscape, settlement, material culture and history (2013). He has also been the scientific secretary of the I, II and III Tarraco Biennial Congress (the first of epigraphy and society, the second commemorating the bimelenary of the death of Augustus, and the third on Roman circuses) and has taken care of the edition of the acts, published in 2013, 2015 and 2017. Within the framework of the ICAC , where he has been since 2002, he has directed the Paleo-Christian Tarraco project. The suburb of Francolí (2002-2004); The work Archaeological Planimetry of Tàrraco (2005) has participated; He has directed the Terracotes project in Plaça de la Font de Tarragona; He has collaborated in the cataloging of the bibliographic fund of the prof. Pere de Palol (2007) and elaborated the Master Plan of the Roman villa of La Llosa in Cambrils (2008). In 2009 and 2010, he worked on the Ager Tarraconensis project and then on the excavations and study of the Mèdol Roman Quarry.

Research Interest

 late antiquity, epigraphy, antique production and commerce.