SARA BERNARDINI

Dottoressa di ricerca

ciclo: XXXIV


supervisore: Giorgio Manzi
co-supervisore: Mary Anne Tafuri

Titolo della tesi: Biography of an Age. Bioarchaeological and multi proxy studies of Italian Copper Age groups

This work aimed at reconstructing the everyday life of Italian Copper Age (4th and 3rd mill. BCE) human groups from Central and Southern Italy. The archaeological data suggest a relationship between mobility and exploitation of the environment, both at a cultural and economic scale. The application of multi-isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S and 87Sr/86Sr) on human and animal remains allowed to discuss the dietary practices and the environment exploitation strategies of these communities. The results indicate an extensive use of the area surrounding the funerary place, with a short-range mobility, possibly associated with specific activities (i.e. pastoralism and raw materials acquisition). This framework suggests a close relation between the use of the landscape and the funerary practices. This exploratory study also made it possible to identify life histories, with particular reference to childhood, while demonstrating the advantage of multidisciplinary approaches in reconstructing everyday life of past populations.

Produzione scientifica

  • 11573/1672353 - 2022 - Living and surviving in the Roman Empire: skeletal trauma and strontium isotopes of an individual from Lucus Feroniae (Rome, Italy) (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    FARESE, MARTINA; FORMICHELLA, GIULIA; BERNARDINI, SARA; ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1340898 - 2018 - Nuovi dati sull’età del Rame del Levante ligure tramite analisi isotopiche multi-proxy (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1340922 - 2019 - Biography of an Age: reconstructing lifeways of Italian Copper Age groups by multi proxy biological, isotopic and archaeological analysis (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA
  • 11573/1678568 - 2023 - Stabbed to death. An osteobiography example of violence among Longobards (Povegliano Veronese, Italy, 6th-8th c CE) (01a Articolo in rivista)
    ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; BERNARDINI, SARA; PROFICO, ANTONIO; DI GIANNANTONIO, STEFANIA; GIOSTRA, CATERINA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1492016 - 2020 - Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes analysis on Italian prehistoric contexts: a complementary means to infer socio-cultural dynamics (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1492277 - 2019 - The contribution of paleodiet to the understanding of prehistoric socio-cultural relationships: a case study from Copper Age in Central Italy (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; CONATI BARBARO, CECILIA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1492239 - 2019 - Eating a moment of sharing. The reconstruction of dietary habits through stable isotopes analyses to interpret the social issues of Italian Copper Age (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; COPPA, ALFREDO; CONATI BARBARO, CECILIA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1492230 - 2020 - Could protein intake reflect cultural differences? A case study from the Italian Copper Age of Rinaldone and Gaudo cultures (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; COPPA, ALFREDO; CONATI BARBARO, CECILIA; ALHAIQUE, FRANCESCA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1566040 - 2021 - Contribution to Longobard dietary studies. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from Castel Trosino (6th-8th c. CE, Ascoli Piceno, Central Italy) (01a Articolo in rivista)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; MOGESIE, SEMINEW ASRAT; MICARELLI, ILEANA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1671641 - 2023 - Multi-isotope analysis of primary and secondary dentin as a mean to broaden intra-life dietary reconstruction. A case from Longobard Italy (01a Articolo in rivista)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1657565 - 2022 - Severe ankylosis of the left hip in the Early Medieval Community of Selvicciola (Italy, 4th-8th Centuries CE) (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; BERNARDINI, SARA; PROFICO, ANTONIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE; MANZI, GIORGIO
  • 11573/1657567 - 2022 - Health care among an Early Medieval community in Italy (Selvicciola, 4th-8th centuries CE) (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; BERNARDINI, SARA; PROFICO, ANTONIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE; MANZI, GIORGIO
  • 11573/1671649 - 2023 - An unprecedented case of cranial surgery in Longobard Italy (6th–8th century) using a cruciform incision (01a Articolo in rivista)
    MICARELLI, ILEANA; STRANI, FLAVIA; BERNARDINI, SARA; GIOSTRA, CATERINA; GAZZANIGA, VALENTINA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE; MANZI, GIORGIO
  • 11573/1493438 - 2021 - Social dynamics and resource management strategies in Copper Age Italy. Insights from archaeological and isotopic data (01a Articolo in rivista)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; COPPA, ALFREDO; CONATI BARBARO, CECILIA; ALHAIQUE, FRANCESCA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1672358 - 2022 - Were they actually local? Strontium isotope analysis of individuals from the Roman cemetery of Lucus Feroniae (Rome, Italy) (04f Poster)
    FARESE, MARTINA; BERNARDINI, SARA; ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1672361 - 2022 - Indagini paleopatologiche e isotopiche su uno scheletro femminile di epoca romana imperiale (Lucus Feroniae, I-III secolo CE) (04f Poster)
    FARESE, MARTINA; FORMICHELLA, GIULIA; BERNARDINI, SARA; ZEPPILLI, CARLOTTA; MICARELLI, ILEANA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1671664 - 2022 - Biography of an age. Bioarchaeological and multi proxy studies of Italian Copper Age groups (07a Tesi di Dottorato)
    BERNARDINI, SARA
  • 11573/1340919 - 2019 - Bioarchaeological studies in prehistory: their contribution to the understanding of social issues. A case study from Copper Age Italy (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; COPPA, ALFREDO; CONATI BARBARO, CECILIA; MANZI, GIORGIO; TAFURI, MARY ANNE
  • 11573/1329493 - 2019 - Inferring social dynamics of Italian Copper Age communities by stable isotopes analyses: preliminary results from central and southern Italy (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    BERNARDINI, SARA; COPPA, ALFREDO; CONATI BARBARO, CECILIA; TAFURI, MARY ANNE

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