In the CSD-TCP there are 16 groups, 15 of which belong to 5 institutions, and the last one is a private company. They are the following:

Group acronym: LaPa
Institution: Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento (CSIC)
Director: Felipe Criado Bodado
Research lines: landscape archaeology, protection and management of cultural heritage, the role of heritage in society.

Group acronym: ArqueoMetal
Institution: Instituto de Historia (CCHS, CSIC)
Director: Alicia Perea Caveda
Research lines: goldworking techniques, metals analysis, archaeometallurgy.

Group acronym: EST-AP
Institution: Instituto de Historia (CCHS, CSIC)
Director: F. Javier Sánchez-Palencia Ramos
Research lines: landscape archaeology, development and management of cultural landscapes, Spatial Data Infrastructures.

Group acronym: GIPSE
Institution: Instituto de Historia (CCHS, CSIC)
Director: Juan Vicent García
Research lines: landscape archaeology, teledetection and documentation, Spatial Data Infrastructures.

Group acronym: ArqBio
Institution: Instituto de Historia (CCHS, CSIC)
Director: José Antonio López Sáez
Research lines: palaeoecology, palaeobotany, ethnography, zooarchaeology.

Group acronym: MICROPATH
Institution: Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología Sevilla (CSIC)
Director: Cesáreo Sáiz Jiménez
Research lines: microbiology and conservation of heritage materials.

Group acronym: PATRYMAT
Institution: Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja (CSIC)
Director: Mª Teresa Blanco Varela
Research lines: mortar and cement material properties.

Group acronym: PAP
Institution: Instituto de Geología Económica (CSIC)
Director: Rafael Fort González
Research lines: deterioration and conservation of lithic materials, petrology.

Group acronym: LANAPAC
Institution: Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano (CSIC)
Director: Marta Castillejo Soriano
Research lines: laser use in analysis and protection, analytical spectroscopy.

Group acronym: CERVITRUM
Institution: Instituto de Historia (CCHS, CSIC)
Director: Mª Ángeles Villegas Broncano
Research lines: ceramics and glass archaeometry, acidity and environmental parameters sensors.

Group acronym: CAAI
Institution: Centro Andaluz de Arqueología Ibérica (Universidad de Jaén)
Director: Arturo Ruiz Rodríguez
Research lines: landscape musealization, architecture archaeology, palaeoenvironment, image treatment.

Group acronym: GPAC
Institution: Universidad del País Vasco
Director: Agustín Azkarate Garai-Olaun
Research lines: architecture archaeology, documentation of historical ensembles, management and dissemination of heritage.

Group acronym: SINCRISIS
Institution: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Director: Marco V. García Quintela
Research lines: heritage in society, historical anthropology.

Group acronym: EPEC
Institution: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Director: Antonio Martínez Cortizas
Research lines: palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, palaeocontamination, analysis and alteration in heritage conservation.

Group acronym: NECO
Institution: NECO Information Technologies
Director: César A. González Pérez
Research lines: management of semantic information networks, social networks, representation and visualization.

Group acronym: GFYT
Institution: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Director: Santiago Ormeño Villajos
Research lines: teledetection, photogrammetry, GIS-based environmental models.
Líneas de investigación: utilización del láser para analítica y protección, espectroscopía analítica.