Livia Tirabassi

Due to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the 15th edition of the international conference ArcheoFOSS Open Software, hardware, processes, data, and formats in archaeological research will be held online on November 23rd - 26th, 2021. The official conference languages are English and Italian.
The conference will address a range of important topics and themes relating to data sharing, open tools, processes and formats in the archaeological domain.
We invite scholars, independent researchers, institutions, freelance archaeologists, and professional companies involved in Cultural Heritage to submit original research or case studies by exposing the latest trends, theoretical or practical developments and challenges in the field. On behalf of the Scientific Committee 2021, the Organising Committee encourages abstract proposals focused on the following thematic areas.

Gli scavi condotti negli ultimi dieci anni da parte dell’ Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) hanno messo in luce una vasta porzione di un isolato dell’abitato di età punica (Area B) dell’insediamento di Pani Loriga (Sardegna). La complessa articolazione dei vani, pertinente probabilmente a un unico edificio a carattere comunitario, e la conservazione degli strati di vita permettono di definire diverse dinamiche quotidiane in un contesto urbano.
La comprensione della scansione degli spazi e un ampio spettro di analisi effettuate sui reperti forniscono numerosi dati che integrano la nostra conoscenza sulla vita degli abitanti della collina. I dati archeologici, archeobotanici, archeozoologici e le analisi biochimiche ampliano la comprensione sui prodotti utilizzati e le pratiche comuni di una città punica.

The excavations carried out in the last 10 years by the Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) have recently resulted in the discovery of a wide sector (Area B) of the Punic settlement of Pani Loriga (Sardinia). The plan and preservation of the excavated building allow us to clarify social and domestic dynamics of an urban complex.
Our understanding about inhabitants’ life results from the stratigraphic study and a broad range of analysis carried out on the finds. Archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological data and biochemical analyses increase our knowledge on the products and daily practices of a Punic community.

The Phoenicians, in their move towards the West, brought with them different cultural customs well
reflected both in terms of material culture and architectural traditions and building techniques. The
study of architectural features throughout the Punic West Mediterranean can certainly be considered
a new approach that a young generation of scholars holds to identify all those processes of contact and
cultural contamination that characterize the Mediterranean of the first millennium BC. It is well known
that the material culture is not a static phenomenon and that in most cases it evolves and reinvents
itself. This paper will address, particularly, the process of evolution of the mud brick architecture; that,
even though has always been considered as an almost exclusive feature of Near Eastern Architecture,
thanks to several new excavations, is now well attested also in the Western Mediterranean. In Punic
contexts, the use of mud brick architecture can actually be traced back to the first contacts between
the local populations of Sicily, North Africa, Sardinia, the Iberian Peninsula and the Levantine peoples.
However some differences in the use of this technique can be effectively noted. In Sardinia, the
architecture in raw clay blends with that in stone and produces a new logic of settlement arrangement;
in a similar way, in Andalusia the unbaked clay architecture maintains its peculiarities but seems to
change its dimensional system, to meet a special need. Therefore, through the analysis of the
unpublished documentation of Pani Loriga (Sardinia), Cerro Macareno (Spain) and Kharayeb
(Lebanon), this work will analyze the impact of the Oriental mudbrick technique on the local regional
building traditions and the change produced in the construction methods of the different regions.

The 15th edition of the international conference ArcheoFOSS Open Software, hardware, processes, data, and formats in archaeology is now open.
After the 2020’s conference is the second year in which the official conference languages are both English and Italian.
The conference will address a range of important topics and themes relating to data sharing, open tools, processes and formats in the archaeological domain.
The Organizing Committee invited scholars, independent researchers, institutions, freelance archaeologists,
and professional companies involved in Cultural Heritage to submit their original researches or case studies by exposing the latest trends, theoretical or practical developments and challenges in the field.
On behalf of the Scientific Committee 2021, the Organising Committee encouraged abstract proposals focused on some thematic areas. Furthermore, for the first time, ArcheoFOSS published the pre-acs volume to facilitate the sharing and the deep understanding of any issues.

The workshop will describe the workflow used to develop a 360-degree short film set in the Roman Villa in l’Albir (Alicante, Spain). This project has included the virtual reconstruction and recreation of the entire archaeological site, as well as the use of the Extended Matrix tool to record the different stages and the decision-making process