- Università degli Studi di Palermo, Beni Culturali, Graduate StudentUniversità degli Studi di Palermo, Master II livello Scienze Forensi (indirizzo antropologico), Graduate Student, and 3 moreadd
- Roman Pottery, Athena, Coroplastic, Akragas, Lindia, Funerary Archaeology, and 14 moreDeath and Burial (Archaeology), Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Memory and materiality, Classical Architecture, Archeology of Ritual, Archaic Architecture, Archeologia Siciliana, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Necropolis, Greek Sicily, Himera, and Roman Sicilyedit
- Archaeology, Anthropology, Librarianedit
Photogrammetry is a survey technique that allows for the building of three-dimensional (3D) models from digitized output data. In recent years, it has been confirmed as one of the best techniques to build 3D models widely used in several... more
Photogrammetry is a survey technique that allows for the building of three-dimensional (3D) models from digitized output data. In recent years, it has been confirmed as one of the best techniques to build 3D models widely used in several fields such as life and earth sciences, medicine, architecture, topography, archaeology, crime scene investigation, cinematography, and engineering. Close-range photogrammetry, in particular, has several applications in osteological studies allowing to create databases of 3D bone models available for subsequent qualitative and quantitative studies. This work provides a step-by-step guide of the photo acquisition protocol and the photogrammetric workflow for creating high-resolution 3D digital models of human crania. Our method, based on Structure-from-Motion (SfM), uses single-camera photogrammetry to capture chromatic details and reconstruct shape with a scale error of less than 1 mm. Using relatively inexpensive and easily transportable equipment and a quick and simple protocol, realistic and accurate models can be be produced with minimal effort.
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Between October and December 2016, thanks to the collaboration between Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Palermo and the Municipality of Castellana Sicula, the weeding of the archaeological area of Contrada Muratore in Calcarelli, seat of an... more
Between October and December 2016, thanks to the collaboration between Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Palermo and the Municipality of Castellana Sicula, the weeding of the archaeological area of Contrada Muratore in Calcarelli, seat of an important late Roman settlement, was carried out. Both the cleaning work and some small archaeological surveys gave interesting news, allowing to date an ancient millstone, dug into the rock, and to give the opportunity to discover new burials in addition to those already known. Among the recent discoveries is particularly interesting a deposition inside tiles, located outside a hypogeic chamber tomb. The osteological remains recovered from that tomb have been studied at the laboratory of Anthropology-Lab Homo of STEBICEF of the University of Palermo and gave us further information.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Late Antique Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Death and Burial (Archaeology), and 15 moreLate Roman Empire, Archeologia, Archaeology of burials, Ancient Sicily, Tardoantico, Sicily, Archeologia Siciliana, Archaeology of Magna Graecia and Sicily, Archaeology of death and burial, Archéologie, Archeologia Tardoantica E Paleocristiana, Archeologia Tardoantica E Cristiana, Archeologia paleocristiana, tardoantica e altomedievale, Archeologia Tardoantica, and Tardo Antico
Convegno nell'ambito delle campagne di scavo archeologico presso la Terravecchia di Caltavuturo (PA). INTERVENTI: il Sindaco On. Domenico Giannopolo l’Assessore ai Beni Culturali Dott. ssa Nieta Gennuso il Dott. Stefano Vassallo... more
Convegno nell'ambito delle campagne di scavo archeologico presso la Terravecchia di Caltavuturo (PA).
INTERVENTI:
il Sindaco On. Domenico Giannopolo
l’Assessore ai Beni Culturali Dott. ssa Nieta Gennuso
il Dott. Stefano Vassallo (Soprintendenza BB CC di Palermo)
la Dott.ssa Rosamaria Cucco (Soprintendenza BB CC di Palermo)
il Dott. Filippo Iannì (archeologo e direttore degli scavi)
il Prof. Luca Sìneo e il Dott. Salvatore Ficarra (Laboratorio di Antropologia e Applicazioni Forensi LabHomo , Università degli studi di Palermo)
INTERVENTI:
il Sindaco On. Domenico Giannopolo
l’Assessore ai Beni Culturali Dott. ssa Nieta Gennuso
il Dott. Stefano Vassallo (Soprintendenza BB CC di Palermo)
la Dott.ssa Rosamaria Cucco (Soprintendenza BB CC di Palermo)
il Dott. Filippo Iannì (archeologo e direttore degli scavi)
il Prof. Luca Sìneo e il Dott. Salvatore Ficarra (Laboratorio di Antropologia e Applicazioni Forensi LabHomo , Università degli studi di Palermo)
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The Necropolis in Front of the Temple of Concordia in Agrigentum: Anthropological and Palaeogenetic analysis (2012 and 2015 Excavation Campaigns) Serena Cesare1, Alessandra Modi2, Giuseppe Bellomo1, Salvatore Ficarra1, Chiara Gandolfo1,... more
The Necropolis in Front of the Temple of Concordia in Agrigentum: Anthropological and Palaeogenetic analysis (2012 and 2015 Excavation Campaigns)
Serena Cesare1, Alessandra Modi2, Giuseppe Bellomo1, Salvatore Ficarra1, Chiara Gandolfo1, Martina Lari2, David Caramelli2, Valentina Caminneci3, Zelia Di Giuseppe3 and Luca Sineo1
1. Dip. STEBICEF – Università di Palermo.
2. Dip. di Biologia – Università di Firenze.
3. Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico Valle dei Templi Agrigento.
Keywords: Agrigentum; Temple of Concordia; Necropolis; Anthropology; Ancient mitochondrial DNA; Vandals.
The Christian necropolis of Agrigento, datable between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, is located west of the area occupied by the large Temple “della Concordia”, inside the Archaeological Park of the Valley of the Temples and near the area of the Greek tombs.
In the 2012 excavation campaign, a single burial was found (ZDG Anthropologist). In 2015 (LS Anthropologist) four tombs were discovered with multiple, primary and secondary burials, dating back to a chronological period between the 5th and the 6th century AD. All tombs were without equipment. The anthropological analysis allowed the reconstruction of the biological profile of six individuals: one sub-adult, two adult males, two adult females, and a four-year-old child. Ancient mtDNA analysis allowed the characterization of the mitochondrial genome of 5 of the six individuals. In particular, three samples show sub-haplogroups of the macro-haplogroup H, the most frequent in today's Western Europe. Of these, two samples, belonging to two individuals found in the same tomb, share the same mitochondrial motif, a sign of a possible matrilineal descent. From population analysis, performed by comparison with a dataset of modern Mediterranean populations and ancient lower-medieval sequences, no particular genetic closeness emerged with any of the populations used. However, a smaller genetic distance was observed with the current Sardinian population which, in the period under review, had been dominated by the Vandals. In regard to the comparison with lower-medieval populations, no specific genetic closeness was recognized.
This study makes it possible to superimpose the chronological horizon of the necropolis with that of the occupation of the Vandals in Sicily, and in particular in the area of Agrigento, historically ascertained between 440 AD, the year of the attack by Genseric for the conquest of the island, until 476 AD, when the king of the Heruli Odoacer redeemed Sicily.
Serena Cesare1, Alessandra Modi2, Giuseppe Bellomo1, Salvatore Ficarra1, Chiara Gandolfo1, Martina Lari2, David Caramelli2, Valentina Caminneci3, Zelia Di Giuseppe3 and Luca Sineo1
1. Dip. STEBICEF – Università di Palermo.
2. Dip. di Biologia – Università di Firenze.
3. Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico Valle dei Templi Agrigento.
Keywords: Agrigentum; Temple of Concordia; Necropolis; Anthropology; Ancient mitochondrial DNA; Vandals.
The Christian necropolis of Agrigento, datable between the 3rd and 6th centuries AD, is located west of the area occupied by the large Temple “della Concordia”, inside the Archaeological Park of the Valley of the Temples and near the area of the Greek tombs.
In the 2012 excavation campaign, a single burial was found (ZDG Anthropologist). In 2015 (LS Anthropologist) four tombs were discovered with multiple, primary and secondary burials, dating back to a chronological period between the 5th and the 6th century AD. All tombs were without equipment. The anthropological analysis allowed the reconstruction of the biological profile of six individuals: one sub-adult, two adult males, two adult females, and a four-year-old child. Ancient mtDNA analysis allowed the characterization of the mitochondrial genome of 5 of the six individuals. In particular, three samples show sub-haplogroups of the macro-haplogroup H, the most frequent in today's Western Europe. Of these, two samples, belonging to two individuals found in the same tomb, share the same mitochondrial motif, a sign of a possible matrilineal descent. From population analysis, performed by comparison with a dataset of modern Mediterranean populations and ancient lower-medieval sequences, no particular genetic closeness emerged with any of the populations used. However, a smaller genetic distance was observed with the current Sardinian population which, in the period under review, had been dominated by the Vandals. In regard to the comparison with lower-medieval populations, no specific genetic closeness was recognized.
This study makes it possible to superimpose the chronological horizon of the necropolis with that of the occupation of the Vandals in Sicily, and in particular in the area of Agrigento, historically ascertained between 440 AD, the year of the attack by Genseric for the conquest of the island, until 476 AD, when the king of the Heruli Odoacer redeemed Sicily.