Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, a monograph, book chapters and preprints. Links go to the publisher DOI, and to code where it is public.

Journal articles

2026

  • Makarova M., Codato A., Orsoni M. J. and 22 co-authors, including Cardarelli L.

    Benchmarking biomolecular preservation and ancient DNA recovery from Bronze Age Italian livestock remains: preliminary results from the HERDS project

    Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, LXXVI, Supplemento 6

  • Cardarelli A., Depalmas A., Pacciarelli M., Recchia G., Cardarelli L., Vilmercati M.

    Societies, mobility, and trade in the Central Mediterranean between the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (ca. 1700-700 BCE): an archaeological framework

    Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, LXXVI, Supplemento 6

  • Montalvo Puente C. E., Lago G., Cardarelli L., Costantine-Castro J., Pérez Molina J.

    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

  • Cardarelli L., Fragnoli P., D'Anna M. B.

    Quantifying morphological standardization through binary matrices with an application to the ceramic assemblage of an early complex society

    Paléorient, 51

  • Cardarelli L.

    PyPotteryLens: an open-source deep learning framework for automated digitisation of archaeological pottery documentation

    Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 38

  • Cardarelli L.

    PyPotteryInk: one-step diffusion model for sketch to publication-ready archaeological drawings

    Journal of Cultural Heritage, 74

  • Alessandri L., Cardarelli L., Cesaretti A., Dan R., Fiorillo A., Sotgia A., Cusimano L., Della Sala G. A., Gianni V., Rossi C.

    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

  • Carletti E., Conati Barbaro C., Allegretta I., Cardarelli L., Forti L., Monno A., Terzano R., Eramo G.

    Chert sources and territorial behaviour after the Neolithization process: an exploratory analysis from Grotta Battifratta (Rieti, Central Italy)

    Quaternary International, 717

2024

  • Cardarelli L.

    From fragments to digital wholeness: an AI generative approach to reconstructing archaeological vessels

    Journal of Cultural Heritage, 70

  • Lago G., Cardarelli L., Ialongo N.

    CQArchaeo: a Python package for cosine quantogram analysis and Monte Carlo simulations

    Archeologia e Calcolatori, 35.1

2023

  • Cardarelli A., Di Renzoni A., Bettelli M., de Neef W., Scacchetti F., Cardarelli L., Paniccia C., Paolini E.

    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

  • Cardarelli L.

    Traditional and digital typologies compared: the example of Italian protohistory

    Origini, XLVII

  • Cardarelli L.

    Defining Southern Etruria Final Bronze Age settlement models using an integrated GIS and machine learning approach

    Archeologia e Calcolatori, 34.2

  • Santi P., Cardarelli A., Bettelli M., Di Renzoni A., Cardarelli L., Paniccia C., Renzulli A.

    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, central Italy)

    Scientific Reports, 13, 7022

  • Montalvo Puente C. E., Lago G., Cardarelli L., Pérez Molina J. C.

    Money or ingots? Metrological research on pre-contact Ecuadorian “axe-monies”

    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49

2022

  • Cardarelli L.

    A deep variational convolutional autoencoder for unsupervised features extraction of ceramic profiles. A case study from central Italy

    Journal of Archaeological Science, 144

  • Cardarelli L., Lapadula A.

    Dimensionality reduction for data visualization and exploratory analysis of ceramic assemblages

    Archeologia e Calcolatori, 33.2

2020

  • Cardarelli L.

    Capienza delle forme vascolari, da un metodo open source all'uso di modelli regressivi: il caso dell'insediamento protostorico del Monte Cimino

    Archeologia e Calcolatori, 31.1

Monograph and book chapters

Preprints and under review