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Timber use and garden plants in the Roman villa “of Poppea” at Oplontis
The evidences show an exclusive use of coniferous timber in building and carpentry In a study published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Daniela Moser, Emilia Allevato and Gaetano Di Pasquale...
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The beginnings of the rural landscape in the High Ombrone Valley (central Italy)
The agrarian and forest archaeology of the Roman and Medieval communities Le prime analisi archeo-ambientali condotte sul sito archeologico di Santa Marta hanno consentito di identificare e definire...
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Our new research on the history of the Mediterranean vegetation during the...
An “anthracological” response to the debate on the role of climate and humans in spreading evergreen vegetation In a study published in Annali di Botanica, our team analyzed wood charcoals from two...
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Metallurgy and forest landscapes in the Colline Metallifere (central Italy)
Which was the woodland during the intensive period of forest use? The archaeological research carried out in the Rectory of Saint Niccolò by the University of Siena, in collaboration with the...
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Forest history and human impact on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria
Our team is reconstructing the landscape history of a Bronze Age settlement Although the Bronze Age development in Southern Italy has attracted scholar’s interest in the past, in this region, there is...
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Evidences of cypress cultivation in southern Italy
In Campania cypress groves were present during the Roman Age for timber production In Campania, many analyses carried out by our team on wooden artefacts revealed that cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)...
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The Late Holocene history of silver fir
Is silver fir a relic species with no potential to expand its spatial range? Is silver fir a mountain species? In a study published in the Journal of Vegetation Science, our team investigated by means...
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The first archaeobotanical review of archaeological sites in Italy
More than 15 archaeobotanical teams, working on 630 archaeological sites in the last 25 years, reconstructed the history of the cultural landscapes in Italy from the pre-Roman to the Middle Ages In a...
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Late Holocene landscape changes in central Italy
From 200 BC to AD 1300 the landscape on the Etruscan coast in central Italy changed completely independent of climate In a research paper published in The Holocene, our team applied long term analysis...
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Analisi e catalogazione dei materiali conservati presso il LRA
Il racconto della grande cultura agro-alimentare romana Pompei e, più in generale, tutta l’area anticamente sottoposta alla violenza distruttiva del Vesuvio, conserva un patrimonio d’informazioni...
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