Publications
2026
Counting rather than weighing: metrological analysis and machine learning
reveal the monetary potential of pre-contact Ecuadorian axe-monies.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 69
2025
PyPotteryInk: One-step diffusion model for sketch to publication-ready
archaeological drawings.
Journal of Cultural Heritage, 74
Chert sources and territorial behaviour after the Neolithization process: An
exploratory analysis from Grotta Battifratta (Rieti, Central Italy).
Quaternary International, 717
The legacy: the Data Science movement.
Analyse des données and archaeology fifty years later: from data analysis
to data science, All’Insegna del Giglio
Quantifying morphological standardization through binary matrices with an
application to the ceramic assemblage of an early complex society.
Paléorient, 51
PyPotteryLens: An Open-Source Deep Learning Framework for Automated
Digitisation of Archaeological Pottery Documentation.
Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 38
From pencil to pixel: assessing ceramatic 2.0 against manual and laser-aided
techniques in archaeological pottery documentation.
Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 37
2024
PyPotteryLens: An Open-Source Deep Learning Framework for Automated
Digitisation of Archaeological Pottery Documentation, preprint
Vessel typological classification: comparing archaeologist perspectives to a
digital approach.
Studi in onore di Andrea Cardarelli, Naus Editoria
Morphological variability and standardisation of vessel shapes in the 2nd and
first half of the first millennium BC in continental Italy. A data science and machine learning
project for the quantitative study of archaeological ceramic profiles.
Edipuglia ISBN 979-12-5995-084-0
From fragments to digital wholeness: an AI generative approach to
reconstructing archaeological vessels.
Journal of Cultural Heritage, 70
2023
The Late Bronze age hilltop site of Monte Croce Guardia in the context of
Bronze Age and Early Iron Age settlement organization in Peninsular Italy.
Origini, XLVII
Traditional and digital typologies compared: the example of Italian
protohistory.
Origini, XLVII
Defining Southern Etruria Final Bronze Age settlement models using an
integrated GIS and machine learning approach.
Archeologia e Calcolatori, 34.2
Tracing the human movements of three thousand years ago by volcanic grinding
tools in the Final Bronze Age settlement of Monte Croce Guardia (Arcevia-Marche Region, central
Italy).
Scientific Reports 13, 7022
Money or ingots? Metrological research on pre-contact Ecuadorian
"axe-monies".
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49
2022
A deep variational convolutional Autoencoder for unsupervised features
extraction of ceramic profiles. A case study from central Italy.
Journal of Archaeological Science, 144
Money or ingots? Metrological research on pre-contact Ecuadorian 'axe-monies'
(preprint)