A5026362622- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Marine and environmental studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- dental development and anomalies
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Gut microbiota and health
- Building materials and conservation
- Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
University of Bologna
2021-2024
Durham University
2019-2022
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2020
Ministero della cultura
2020
Regione del Veneto
2020
Don State Agrarian University
2020
This study investigates to what extent Bronze Age societies in Northern Italy were permeable accepting and integrating non-local individuals, as well importing a wide range of raw materials, commodities, ideas from networks spanning continental Europe the Mediterranean. During second millennium BC, communities engaged progressive stabilization settlements, culminating large polities end Middle/beginning Late pivoted around defended centres (the Terramare). Although exotic archaeological...
Sex estimation of human remains is one the most important research steps for physical anthropologists and archaeologists dealing with funerary contexts trying to reconstruct demographic structure ancient societies. However, it well known that in case cremations sex assessment might be complicated by destructive/transformative effect fire on bones. Osteometric standards built unburned contemporary cremated series are often inadequate analysis cremations, frequently result a significant number...
Abstract The human microbiome has recently become a valuable source of information about host life and health. To date little is known how it may have evolved during key phases along our history, such as the Neolithic transition towards agriculture. Here, we shed light on evolution experienced by oral this transition, comparing Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers with Copper Age farmers that populated same restricted area in Italy. We integrate analysis 76 dental calculus microbiomes dietary...
Abstract The Late Bronze Age (1700–900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for Mediterranean Europe. Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record over half millennium within entire northern littoral Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence. picture that emerges, while certainly fragmented not displaying unique trajectory, reveals number broad trends in aspects as different social...
In this study, we present osteological and strontium isotope data of 29 individuals (26 cremations 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one the largest Middle Bronze Age cemeteries in Hungary. The site is located northern part Csepel Island (a few kilometres south Budapest) was use between c. 2150 1500 BC, a period that saw rise, apogee, and, ultimately, collapse Vatya culture plains Central main aim our study to identify variation mobility patterns among different sex/age/social...
Abstract Archaeological research is currently redefining how large-scale changes occurred in prehistoric times. In addition to the long-standing theoretical dichotomy between ‘cultural transmission’ and ‘demic diffusion’, many alternative models borrowed from sociology can be used explain spread of innovations. The emergence urnfields Middle Late Bronze Age Europe certainly one these phenomena; its wide distribution has been traditionally emphasized by use general term Urnenfelderkultur/zeit...
Abstract The Early Iron Age in Italy (end of the tenth to eighth century BCE) was characterized by profound changes which influenced subsequent political and cultural scenario peninsula. At end this period people from eastern Mediterranean (e.g. Phoenicians Greek people) settled along Italian, Sardinian Sicilian coasts. Among local populations, so-called Villanovan culture group—mainly located on Tyrrhenian side central southern Po plain—stood out since beginning for extent their...
Abstract The transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (around 1500 BCE) in Carpathian Basin was parallel by drastic cultural changes Central-Europe, which strongly influenced dynamic of prehistoric Europe. fragmentation (2000 − followed a more homogeneous development at beginning (1500 1300 BCE), with appearance Tumulus culture. In this period, long-used tell-settlements were abandoned, furthermore new pottery styles and metal types appeared. Whether these caused immigration, or local...
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The Iron Age is characterized by an extended interweaving of movements Celts in Europe. Several waves from Western and Central Europe migrated southeast west the core area La Téne culture (between Bourgogne Bohemia). Through analysis non-metric dental traits, this work aims to understand biological relationship among Celtic groups arrived Italy Carpathian Basin, as well between local populations newcomers. A total 10 traits were analyzed evaluate affinities (Sopron-Krautacker...
The Selvicciola necropolis is a large burial site dated to the Copper Age, located on mid-Tyrrhenian side of Central Italy, in Fiora river valley. Despite post-depositional disturbances, 32 prehistoric tombs were found, generally good state preservation, with total number 119 individuals identified. In present study, radiocarbon and stable isotope measurements bone collagen are combined skeletal data for 71 these individuals. We aim investigate possible changes food practices patterns...
Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita-the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave west-central Italy (ca.1650-1450 B.C.)-this article helps to replace generic idea "collective burial" with a more precise understanding how bodies deceased were transformed into potent social, symbolic, and sensuous resources housed caves.It contextualizes this process within nuanced settlement subsistence practices, which relatively short-lived small-scale...
The archaeological site of Salorno—Dos de la Forca (Bozen, Alto Adige) provides one the rarest and most significant documentations cremated human remains preserved from an ancient cremation platform ( ustrinum ). pyre area, located along upper Adige valley, is dated to Late Bronze Age ca . 1150–950 BCE) has yielded unprecedented quantity (about 63.5 kg), with burnt animal bone fragments, shards pottery, other grave goods made in bronze bone/antler. This study focuses on bioanthropological...
Summary The Indo-European languages are among the most widely spoken in world, yet their early diversification remains contentious 1–5 . It is accepted that spread of this language family across Europe from 5th millennium BP correlates with expansion and steppe-related genetic ancestry onset Bronze Age 6,7 However, multiple steppe-derived populations co-existed during period, it unclear how these diverged which provided demographic channels for ancestral forms Italic, Celtic, Greek, Armenian...
We present a novel database of environmental and geological 87Sr/86Sr values (n = 1920) from Italy, using literature data newly analysed samples, for provenance purposes. collected both bioavailable non-bioavailable (i.e. rocks bulk soils) to attain broader view the Sr isotope variability Italian peninsula. These were used build maps, namely isoscapes, through Kriging interpolations. employed two different models, Ordinary Universal Kriging, with geolithological map Italy categorized in...