Research: Food supply and animal economy in medieval Upper Lazio. An archaeozoological approach
Medieval archaeologist and archaeozoologist (BIO/08), with postgraduate diploma in Late Antiquity and Medieval Archaeology.
His research is focused on the city of Rome, its hinterland and the Upper Lazio (Viterbo region). His research interests range across the themes of archaeozoology, such as the reconstruction of food supply, strategies of exploitation of animal resources, climatic-environmental reconstructions, and the use of raw materials of animal origin. Special interest is given to the use of aquatic resources (fish, mollusks, crustaceans). The chronological period spans from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, but he has worked on contexts ranging from the earliest Roman age to modern and contemporary times.
During his collaborations with the Tuscia University and during his doctoral studies, he has had the opportunity to investigate the issues of urban waste disposal and the characterization of fauna remains in religious and cultic contexts.
At methodological level, he had the opportunity to explore aspects related to the integration of genetic analysis on ancient DNA, isotopic analysis on bone collagen and the ZooMS technique for the taxonomic determination of remains, as well as the use of digital tools for the acquisition and study of taphonomic traces.
He conducts research on prison manufactures on bone industry and is an active member of research teams in Sapienza archaeological investigations at the sites of Leopoli-Cencelle (Civitavecchia) and of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (Israel).
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