Cristiano Nicosia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 632153 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cristiano Nicosia |
| PRENOMES | Cristiano |
| SOBRENOME | Nicosia |
| ASSINATURA | NICOSIA C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4716-8893 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Crops in Motion
Strontium isotope analysis offers a powerful tool for investigating mobility and provenance in prehistoric contexts, yet its application to archaeobotanical finds remains limited. This study applies 87Sr/86Sr analysis to charred cereal grains from Molino Casarotto, an Italian Middle Neolithic wetland site characterised by a foraging-oriented subsistence strategy and unusually limited cereal use compared to contemporary Neolithic farming sites. A …
Forests, pastures, and furnaces in the south-eastern Alps
Drawing on the Lake Caldonazzo sedimentary record (Valsugana, Italy), this study reconstructs palaeoecological dynamics from the 6th to 1st millennium BCE, revealing the environmental imprint of pre-protohistoric copper mining in the south-eastern Alps. Integrating bio- and geochemical proxies (micro-botanical data, micro-charcoal, faecal biomarkers, and trace elements) we reconstruct the interplay between environmental dynamics and anthropogenic…
The lost woodlands of the Po Plain
Natural and anthropic influences on the transformation of the landscape in archaic Rome during the 6th c BCE
Phosphatic crusts as macroscopic and microscopic proxies for identifying archaeological animal penning areas
Cooking, cleaning, and tossing
The Middle Neolithic lakeshore site of Molino Casarotto (4700 − 4400 cal BCE; Vicenza province, northern Italy) preserves some of the most informative deposits related to Neolithic daily life in Italy. The organisation and use of space within the Neolithic domestic contexts remain poorly understood, largely due to the limited preservation of archaeological evidence. At Molino Casarotto, however, these aspects can be explored thanks to the presenc…
Developer-Led Excavations, Geoarchaelogy & Bayesian Modelled Chronology of a Guild House and the Main Street at Medieval Odense
In Scandinavia, archaeological investigations have made much progress in detailing the characteristics of the earliest towns. Yet, understanding of urban stratigraphies remains limited, and this gap hampers our ability to define site formation processes and develop contextual palimpsests of town life at a formative time of urban development. This paper presents the results of a multi-scale analytical program applied to developer-led excavations o…
Understanding late medieval farming practices
During the preventive archaeological excavation in the cellar of the site of petite Rue des Bouchers in the historical centre of Brussels (Belgium), the waterlogged remains of a thirteenth century AD sunken byre (potstal) were discovered. The exceptional preservation instigated a multiproxy approach, including micro-archaeology, micromorphology, phytolith and endoparasite egg analysis on thin sections, palynology and the study of plant macroremai…
Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000-80,000 years ago
The south Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic (mid-MP; ~130-80 thousand years ago (ka)) is remarkable for its exceptional evidence of human morphological variability, with contemporaneous fossils of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like hominins. Yet, it remains unclear whether these hominins adhered to discrete behavioural sets or whether regional-scale intergroup interactions could have homogenized mid-MP behaviour. Here we report on our discoveries …
Site Formation Processes at Tinshemet Cave, Israel
Recent excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Tinshemet Cave, Israel, showcase hominin burials and associated material culture that uniquely provide new information on hominin behavior in the south Levant around 120–100 ky ago. This study presents the site's stratigraphy in association with findings from sediment micromorphological analyses, shedding light on natural and anthropogenic site formation processes as well as human activities. R…
Umm Huwaiwitat
Studies of the rural landscapes around the Nabataean/Roman city of Petra in Jordan have tended to assume a developmental trajectory based on that of the urban centre. Recent archaeological investigations at the site of Umm Huwaiwitat, however, shed light on the longer-term histories of human occupation and land use in the region north of Petra. Excavation has revealed Late Neolithic deposits formed by the burning of animal dung and the disposal o…
At the origins of Pompeii
The ad 79 eruption of the Vesuvius severely affected the floodplain surrounding the ancient city of Pompeii, i.e. the Sarno River floodplain. The landscape was covered with volcaniclastic materials that destroyed the ecosystem but, at the same time, preserved the traces of former environmental conditions. This study provides—for the first time—a pollen sequence reconstructing the environmental evolution and the plant landscape of the Sarno floodp…
Urban Dark Earth
Assembling Petra's rural landscapes
A multidisciplinary project challenges traditional approaches to the rural landscape of Petra in order to understand its agricultural systems and the quantitative and qualitative aspects of a lived landscape
Geoarchaeology of Bronze Age Europe
Reconstructing past terraced agrarian landscapes in the Ebro valley
The historical agrarian landscape features of the deserted medieval village of Torrentejo (Ebro Valley, southern Basque Country, Rioja Alavesa region) are presented here. This study relies on analyses of agricultural lands on terraces and, secondarily, of domestic occupation, funerary spaces, and of a medieval church. An archaeological excavation was carried out around the church, covering 800 m 2 , and exposing more than 2 m of archaeological de…
The pre‐79 CE alluvial environment south of Pompeii's city walls
The environment in the suburban area of Pompeii between Porta Marina and Porta Stabia at the time of the 79 CE volcanic event was investigated by means of a series of core drillings. These revealed the presence of a ubiquitous dark brown layer (referred to as “Phase 2 interval”) immediately below the 79 CE eruption deposits. Its stratigraphic interpretation relied on 14C dates, diatom analysis and micromorphology, and on comparisons and correlati…
Urban geoarchaeology in Belgium
Geoarchaeological research in urban contexts is a relatively recent development in Belgian geoarchaeology, with pioneering studies dating back to the 1990s. In the beginning of the 21st century, a specific research protocol was developed in Brussels, and in the last years, there have been several attempts to apply a similar approach to urban contexts in Flanders and occasionally in Wallonia. Current debates in urban geoarchaeology mainly focus on…
Heart of darkness
The excavation of the sequence preserved in front of the façade of the Sarno Baths, Pompeii
Human settlement and vegetation-climate relationships in the Greenland Stadial 5 at the Piovesello site (Northern Apennines, Italy)
The Gravettian settlements of Europe are considered as an expression of human adaptation to harsh climates. In Southern Europe, however, favorable vegetation-climate conditions supported hunters-gatherer subsistence and the maintenance of their large-scale networks. This was also the case of the North-Adriatic plain and the Apennine mountain ridge in Italy. Traditionally considered lacking evidence, the northern part of the Apennine ridge has rec…
An agricultural field of Hellenistic date at Pauli Stincus, Terralba, Sardinia
Excavation at Pauli Stincus in Sardinia has revealed an ancient plough soil, with associated evidence of intensive prehistoric agricultural activities
Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology
An integrated study of Dark Earth from the alluvial valley of the Senne river (Brussels, Belgium)
Formation, morphology and interpretation of darkened faecal spherulites
Faecal spherulites are a common indicator of dung in archaeological deposits and most of the basic processes of their formation and taphonomy have been explained. However, a darkened form is also regularly found, ranging from slightly transparent through to completely opaque. These have been less well studied, so we set out here to understand what actually causes the darkening and to determine the range of conditions required to produce the chang…
Formation, morphology and interpretation of darkened faecal spherulites
Faecal spherulites are a common indicator of dung in archaeological deposits and most of the basic processes of their formation and taphonomy have been explained. However, a darkened form is also regularly found, ranging from slightly transparent through to completely opaque. These have been less well studied, so we set out here to understand what actually causes the darkening and to determine the range of conditions required to produce the chang…
Reconstructing past terraced agrarian landscapes in the Ebro valley
The historical agrarian landscape features of the deserted medieval village of Torrentejo (Ebro Valley, southern Basque Country, Rioja Alavesa region) are presented here. This study relies on analyses of agricultural lands on terraces and, secondarily, of domestic occupation, funerary spaces, and of a medieval church. An archaeological excavation was carried out around the church, covering 800 m 2 , and exposing more than 2 m of archaeological de…
Medieval D ark E arth in an Active Alluvial Setting from the U ffizi G allery Complex in F lorence, I taly
Archaeological excavations at the B iblioteca M agliabechiana, which is part of the U ffizi gallery complex in F lorence ( T uscany, central I taly), exposed D ark E arth deposits between alluvial sediments of the nearby A rno R iver. The term D ark E arth refers to thick, dark colored, and seemingly homogeneous deposits occurring in urban settings throughout E urope, broadly dated to the post‐ R oman period. The stratigraphic sequence of the B i…
Phosphatic crusts as macroscopic and microscopic proxies for identifying archaeological animal penning areas
At the origins of Pompeii
The ad 79 eruption of the Vesuvius severely affected the floodplain surrounding the ancient city of Pompeii, i.e. the Sarno River floodplain. The landscape was covered with volcaniclastic materials that destroyed the ecosystem but, at the same time, preserved the traces of former environmental conditions. This study provides—for the first time—a pollen sequence reconstructing the environmental evolution and the plant landscape of the Sarno floodp…
The excavation of the sequence preserved in front of the façade of the Sarno Baths, Pompeii
Bronze Age crop processing evidence in the phytolith assemblages from the ditch and fen around Fondo Paviani, northern Italy
Land Use History and Site Formation Processes at the Punic Site of Pauli Stincus in West Central Sardinia
The site of Pauli Stincus is located near the town of Terralba, on the inland shores of the Gulf of Oristano in west central Sardinia, Italy, and was occupied between the mid‐4th and the late 2nd century B.C. The site and its surroundings were the object of a joint archaeopedological and geomorphological study, which complemented the data from archaeological excavations. This study allowed us to evaluate the suitability of the different landscape…
Heart of darkness
The pre‐79 CE alluvial environment south of Pompeii's city walls
The environment in the suburban area of Pompeii between Porta Marina and Porta Stabia at the time of the 79 CE volcanic event was investigated by means of a series of core drillings. These revealed the presence of a ubiquitous dark brown layer (referred to as “Phase 2 interval”) immediately below the 79 CE eruption deposits. Its stratigraphic interpretation relied on 14C dates, diatom analysis and micromorphology, and on comparisons and correlati…
Urban geoarchaeology in Belgium
Geoarchaeological research in urban contexts is a relatively recent development in Belgian geoarchaeology, with pioneering studies dating back to the 1990s. In the beginning of the 21st century, a specific research protocol was developed in Brussels, and in the last years, there have been several attempts to apply a similar approach to urban contexts in Flanders and occasionally in Wallonia. Current debates in urban geoarchaeology mainly focus on…
Site Formation Processes at Tinshemet Cave, Israel
Recent excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Tinshemet Cave, Israel, showcase hominin burials and associated material culture that uniquely provide new information on hominin behavior in the south Levant around 120–100 ky ago. This study presents the site's stratigraphy in association with findings from sediment micromorphological analyses, shedding light on natural and anthropogenic site formation processes as well as human activities. R…
Natural and anthropic influences on the transformation of the landscape in archaic Rome during the 6th c BCE
Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000-80,000 years ago
The south Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic (mid-MP; ~130-80 thousand years ago (ka)) is remarkable for its exceptional evidence of human morphological variability, with contemporaneous fossils of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like hominins. Yet, it remains unclear whether these hominins adhered to discrete behavioural sets or whether regional-scale intergroup interactions could have homogenized mid-MP behaviour. Here we report on our discoveries …
Assembling Petra's rural landscapes
A multidisciplinary project challenges traditional approaches to the rural landscape of Petra in order to understand its agricultural systems and the quantitative and qualitative aspects of a lived landscape
An agricultural field of Hellenistic date at Pauli Stincus, Terralba, Sardinia
Excavation at Pauli Stincus in Sardinia has revealed an ancient plough soil, with associated evidence of intensive prehistoric agricultural activities
Medieval D ark E arth in an Active Alluvial Setting from the U ffizi G allery Complex in F lorence, I taly
Archaeological excavations at the B iblioteca M agliabechiana, which is part of the U ffizi gallery complex in F lorence ( T uscany, central I taly), exposed D ark E arth deposits between alluvial sediments of the nearby A rno R iver. The term D ark E arth refers to thick, dark colored, and seemingly homogeneous deposits occurring in urban settings throughout E urope, broadly dated to the post‐ R oman period. The stratigraphic sequence of the B i…
Land Use History and Site Formation Processes at the Punic Site of Pauli Stincus in West Central Sardinia
The site of Pauli Stincus is located near the town of Terralba, on the inland shores of the Gulf of Oristano in west central Sardinia, Italy, and was occupied between the mid‐4th and the late 2nd century B.C. The site and its surroundings were the object of a joint archaeopedological and geomorphological study, which complemented the data from archaeological excavations. This study allowed us to evaluate the suitability of the different landscape…
Le site du Carreau du Temple (Paris) entre “ marais ” et “ marécages ”
Les fouilles du “ Carreau du Temple ”, effectuées en 2011, ont permis d’étudier une séquence pédo-sédimentaire préservée sous les vestiges d’une occupation qui débute au xiie s. avec le développement de l’Enclos du Temple. L’emplacement du site correspond à un domaine de transition géomorphologique entre une montille à faible relief (le quartier du Marais) et un paléochenal de la Seine qui ceinture la rive droite. La séquence de sol, qui correspo…
Agrarian archaeology in northern Iberia
Age, soil-forming processes, and archaeology of the loess deposits at the Apennine margin of the Po plain (northern Italy)
Bronze Age crop processing evidence in the phytolith assemblages from the ditch and fen around Fondo Paviani, northern Italy
Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology
An integrated study of Dark Earth from the alluvial valley of the Senne river (Brussels, Belgium)
Formation, morphology and interpretation of darkened faecal spherulites
Faecal spherulites are a common indicator of dung in archaeological deposits and most of the basic processes of their formation and taphonomy have been explained. However, a darkened form is also regularly found, ranging from slightly transparent through to completely opaque. These have been less well studied, so we set out here to understand what actually causes the darkening and to determine the range of conditions required to produce the chang…
Un village chasséen dans le Sud de la France
Une fouille réalisée en 2013 à Cazan «le Clos du Moulin » Vernègues (Bouches-du Rhône) a permis de mettre en évidence une importante occupation du Chasséen récent en fond de vallon. Aucun niveau de sol n’a été retrouvé, mais plus de 600 structures en creux permettent de documenter un des premiers sites d’habitat structuré de cette période dans le Sud de la France. Les attributions chronologiques reposent sur huit datations au 14C comprises en 410…
Human settlement and vegetation-climate relationships in the Greenland Stadial 5 at the Piovesello site (Northern Apennines, Italy)
The Gravettian settlements of Europe are considered as an expression of human adaptation to harsh climates. In Southern Europe, however, favorable vegetation-climate conditions supported hunters-gatherer subsistence and the maintenance of their large-scale networks. This was also the case of the North-Adriatic plain and the Apennine mountain ridge in Italy. Traditionally considered lacking evidence, the northern part of the Apennine ridge has rec…
An agricultural field of Hellenistic date at Pauli Stincus, Terralba, Sardinia
Excavation at Pauli Stincus in Sardinia has revealed an ancient plough soil, with associated evidence of intensive prehistoric agricultural activities
Geoarchaeology of Bronze Age Europe
Reconstructing past terraced agrarian landscapes in the Ebro valley
The historical agrarian landscape features of the deserted medieval village of Torrentejo (Ebro Valley, southern Basque Country, Rioja Alavesa region) are presented here. This study relies on analyses of agricultural lands on terraces and, secondarily, of domestic occupation, funerary spaces, and of a medieval church. An archaeological excavation was carried out around the church, covering 800 m 2 , and exposing more than 2 m of archaeological de…
The pre‐79 CE alluvial environment south of Pompeii's city walls
The environment in the suburban area of Pompeii between Porta Marina and Porta Stabia at the time of the 79 CE volcanic event was investigated by means of a series of core drillings. These revealed the presence of a ubiquitous dark brown layer (referred to as “Phase 2 interval”) immediately below the 79 CE eruption deposits. Its stratigraphic interpretation relied on 14C dates, diatom analysis and micromorphology, and on comparisons and correlati…
Urban geoarchaeology in Belgium
Geoarchaeological research in urban contexts is a relatively recent development in Belgian geoarchaeology, with pioneering studies dating back to the 1990s. In the beginning of the 21st century, a specific research protocol was developed in Brussels, and in the last years, there have been several attempts to apply a similar approach to urban contexts in Flanders and occasionally in Wallonia. Current debates in urban geoarchaeology mainly focus on…
Heart of darkness
The excavation of the sequence preserved in front of the façade of the Sarno Baths, Pompeii
Urban Dark Earth
Assembling Petra's rural landscapes
A multidisciplinary project challenges traditional approaches to the rural landscape of Petra in order to understand its agricultural systems and the quantitative and qualitative aspects of a lived landscape
At the origins of Pompeii
The ad 79 eruption of the Vesuvius severely affected the floodplain surrounding the ancient city of Pompeii, i.e. the Sarno River floodplain. The landscape was covered with volcaniclastic materials that destroyed the ecosystem but, at the same time, preserved the traces of former environmental conditions. This study provides—for the first time—a pollen sequence reconstructing the environmental evolution and the plant landscape of the Sarno floodp…
Umm Huwaiwitat
Studies of the rural landscapes around the Nabataean/Roman city of Petra in Jordan have tended to assume a developmental trajectory based on that of the urban centre. Recent archaeological investigations at the site of Umm Huwaiwitat, however, shed light on the longer-term histories of human occupation and land use in the region north of Petra. Excavation has revealed Late Neolithic deposits formed by the burning of animal dung and the disposal o…
Site Formation Processes at Tinshemet Cave, Israel
Recent excavations at the Middle Paleolithic site of Tinshemet Cave, Israel, showcase hominin burials and associated material culture that uniquely provide new information on hominin behavior in the south Levant around 120–100 ky ago. This study presents the site's stratigraphy in association with findings from sediment micromorphological analyses, shedding light on natural and anthropogenic site formation processes as well as human activities. R…
Natural and anthropic influences on the transformation of the landscape in archaic Rome during the 6th c BCE
Phosphatic crusts as macroscopic and microscopic proxies for identifying archaeological animal penning areas
Archaeology (24 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 obras) · Geography (22 obras) · Geology (14 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 obras) · Paleontology (11 obras) · Excavation (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Agriculture (6 obras) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (6 obras)