Department of Historical Studies

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Selected research products

Palmisano, A., 2023. Inferring Population Dynamics from Multiple Archaeological Proxies: an Overview of Methods and Challenges. In: O. Belvedere, and Bergemann, J. (Eds.), Archaeology and Historical Demography. Methods and Case Studies between Mediterranean and Central Europe (Göttingen Studien zur Mediterranen Archäologie 14). Rahden/Westfalia: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 25-41.https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1953146

Palmisano, A., and Squitieri, A., 2023. Review of A. Faust, The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and Its Consequences. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 389, 235-238. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1911990

Bird, D., Miranda, L., Vander Linden, M., Robinson, E., Bocinsky, R.K., Nicholson, C., Capriles, J. M., Finley, J. B., Gayo, E. M., Gil, A., d’Alpoim Guedes, J., Hoggarth, J. A., Kay, A., Loftus, E., Lombardo, U., Mackie, M., Palmisano, A., Solheim, S., Kelly, R. L., and Freeman, J., 2022. p3k14c, a synthetic global database o archaeological radiocarbon dates. Scientific Data, 9 (27). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858962

Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., Lawrence, D., and Shennan, S., 2022. The NERD Dataset: Near East Radiocarbon Dates between 15,000 and 1,500 cal. yr. BP. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 10 (2), 1-9.https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858978

Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., Kabelindde, A., Roberts, N., and Shennan, S., 2021. Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy: climate impacts and regionalised socio-ecological trajectories. Journal of World Prehistory, 34 (3), 381-432. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858960

Lawrence, D., Palmisano, A., and de Gruchy, M. W., 2021. Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organisation and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event. PloS ONE, 16 (1). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858958

Palmisano, A., Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M. W., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2021. Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858959

Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A., Redhouse, D., Barker, G., di Paola, G., Motta, L., Rasmussen, T., Samuels, T., and Witcher, R., 2020. Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 7(1). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858956

Kreppner, J., Squitieri, A., Herr, J. J., König, L., Palmisano, A., Pietsch, S., Richter, J., Rohde, J., Salih Ahmed, H., and Tretow, L., 2020. Excavating the Upper Town of the Dinka Settlement Complex: the 2019 excavation campaign at Qalat-i Dinka. In: K. Radner, J. Kreppner & A. Squitieri (eds.), The Dinka Settlement Complex 2019: Further Archaeological and Geophysical Work on Qalat-i Dinka and in the Lower Town. Peshdar Plain Project Publications 5. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, 44-85. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1859146

Roberts, N., Fyfe, R., Shennan, S., Bevan, A., Woodbridge, J., and Palmisano, A. (guest editors), 2019. Special Issue. The changing face of the Mediterranean: land cover, demography and environmental change. The Holocene, 29(5). Sage Publishing. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858938

Walsh, K., Berger, J. F., Roberts, N., Vannière, B., Ghilardi, M., Brown, A.G., Woodbridge, J., Lespez,L., Estrany, J., Glais, A., Palmisano, A., Finné, M., Verstraeten, G., 2019.  The relationship between Holocene demographic fluctuations, climate and erosion in the Mediterranean: a meta-analysis. The Holocene, 29(5), 864-885. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858935

Berger, J. F., Shennan, S., Woodbridge, J., Palmisano, A., Mazier, F., Nuninger, L., Guillon, S., Doyen, E., Begeot, C., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Azuara, J., Bevan, A., Fyfe, R., and Roberts, N., 2019.  Holocene land cover and population dynamics in southern France. The Holocene, 29(5), 776-798. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858950

Woodbridge, J., Roberts, N., Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., Shennan, S., Fyfe, R., Eastwood, W.J., Izdebski, A, Cakırlar, C., Woldring, H., Broothaerts, N., Kaniewski, D., Finn, M., and Labuhn, I., 2019. Pollen-inferred regional vegetation patterns and demographic change in Southern Anatolia through the Holocene. The Holocene, 29(5), 728-741. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858953

Cheddadi, R., Palmisano, A., López Sáez, J.A., Nourelbait, M., Zielhofer, C., Tabel, J., Rhoujjati, A., Khater, C., Woodbridge, J., Lucarini, G., Broodbank, C., Fletcher, W., and Roberts, N., 2019. Human demography changes in Morocco and environmental imprint during the Holocene. The Holocene, 29(5), 816-829.https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858954

Fyfe, R., Woodbridge, J., Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., Shennan, S., Burjachs, F., Legarra Herrero, B., García Puchol, O., Carrión, J., Revelles, J., Roberts, N., 2019. Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia. The Holocene, 29(5), 799-815. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858952

Roberts, N., Woodbridge, J., Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., Fyfe, R., and Shennan, S., 2019. Mediterranean landscape change during the Holocene: synthesis, comparison and regional trends in population, land cover and climate. The Holocene, 29(5), 923-937.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858932

Altaweel, M., and Palmisano, A., 2019. Urban and Transport Scaling: Northern Mesopotamia in the Late Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 26(3), 943-966. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858931

Weiberg, E., Kouli, K., Katsianis, M., Woodbridge, J., Bonnier, A., Engel, M., Finné, M., Fyfe, R., Maniatis, Y., Palmisano, A., Panajiotidis, S., Roberts, N., Shennan, S., 2019. Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece: a comparative study. The Holocene, 29(5), 742-760. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858930

Palmisano, A., Woodbridge, J., Roberts, N., Bevan, A., Fyfe, R., Shennan, S., Cheddadi, R., Greenberg, R., Kaniewski, D., Langgut, D., Leroy, S., Litt, T., and Miebach, A., 2019. Holocene Landscape Dynamics and Long-term Population Trends in the Levant. The Holocene, 29(5), 708-727. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858934

Stoddart, S., Woodbridge, J., Palmisano, A., Mercuri, A. M., Mensing, S., Colombaroli, D., Sadori, L., Magri, D., di Rita, F., Giardini, M., Mariotti Lippi, M., Montanari, C., Bellini, C., Florenzano, A., Torri, P., Bevan, A., Shennan, S., Fyfe, R., and Roberts, N., 2019. Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape dynamics. The Holocene, 29(5), 761-775. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858949

Bevan, A., Palmisano, A., Woodbridge, J., Fyfe, R., Shennan, S., and Roberts, N., 2019. The changing face of the Mediterranean: land cover, demography and environmental change: Introduction and overview. The Holocene, 29(5), 703-707. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858951

Kreppner, J., Squitieri, A., Radner, K., Downey, K., Palmisano, A., and Rohde, J., 2019. Continuing the excavation of the Lower Town: the Dinka Lower Town Operation 3 (DLT3). In: K. Radner, J. Kreppner & A. Squitieri (eds.), The Dinka Settlement Complex 2018: Continuing the excavations at Qalat-i Dinka and the Lower Town. Peshdar Plain Project Publications 4. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, 68-94. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1859145

Roberts, N., Woodbridge, J., Bevan, A., Palmisano, A., Shennan, S., and Asouti, E., 2018. Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the last Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 184, 47-67. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858916

Massa, M., and Palmisano, A., 2018. Commercial Landscapes of Long-distance Contacts in Western Asia, c. 3200 – 1600 BC: Perspectives from Material Culture. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 6(3). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858924

Palmisano, A., 2018. Poisson and Binomial Distribution. In: López Varela, S. L. (ed.). The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley-Blackwell. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858919

Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2018. Regional Demographic Trends and Settlement Patterns in Central Italy: Archaeological Sites and Radiocarbon Dates. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 6(2). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858921

Currie, T., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P., Feeney, K., Mullins, D., Hoyer, D., Collins, C.,  Grohmann, S., Savage, P., Mendel-Gleason, G., Turner, E., Dupeyron, A.,  Cioni, E., Reddish, J., Levine, J., Jordan, G., Brandl, E., Williams, A., Cesaretti, R., Krueger, M., Cecceralli, A., Figliulo-Rosswurm, J., Peregrine, P., Marciniak, A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Kradin, N., Korotayev, A., Palmisano, A., Baker, D., Bidmead, J., Bol, P., Christian, D., Cook, C., Covey, A., Feinman, G., Júlíusson, A. R., Kristinsson, A., Miksic, J., Mostern, R., Petrie, C., Rudiak-Gould, P., ter Haar, B., Wallace, V., Mair, V., Xie, L., Baines, J., Bridges, E., Manning, J., Lockhart, B., Tuan, P. J., Bogaard, A., and Spencer, C., 2018. Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (26), https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858920

Massa, M., and Palmisano, A., 2018. Change and Continuity in the Long-distance Exchange Networks between Western/Central Anatolia, Northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia, c. 3200-1600 BC. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 49, 65-87.
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858915

Kreppner, J., Squitieri, A., Radner, K., Amicone, S., Bartl, P., Downey, K., Palmisano, A., and Rohde, J., 2018. Excavating Gird-i Bazar: the 2017 season. In: K. Radner, J. Kreppner & A. Squitieri (eds.), The Dinka Settlement Complex 2017. The Final Season at Gird-i Bazar and First Work in the Lower Town. Peshdar Plain Project Publications 3. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, 53-101. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1859142

Palmisano, A., 2018. The Geography of Trade. Landscapes of competition and long-distance contacts in Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period. Oxford: Archaeopress. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1859249

Palmisano, A., 2017. Drawing Pathways from the Past: the Trade Routes of the Old Assyrian Caravans Across Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia. In: F. Kulakoğlu and G. Barjamovic (eds.), Proceedings of the 2st Kültepe International Meeting. Kültepe, July 26-30, 2015. Studies Dedicated to Klaas Veenhof. Kültepe International Meetings 2 (SUBARTU 39). Turnhout: Brepols, 29-48. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858884

Palmisano, A., 2017. Confronting Scales of Settlement Hierarchy in State-Level Societies: Upper Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 14, 220 – 240. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858892

Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2017. Comparing archaeological proxies for long-term population patterns: An example from central Italy. Journal of Archaeological Science, 87, 59-72. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858913

Turchin, P., Currie, T., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P., Feeney, K., Mullins, D., Hoyer, D., Collins, C.,  Grohmann, S., Savage, P., Mendel-Gleason, G., Turner, E., Dupeyron, A.,  Cioni, E., Reddish, J., Levine, J., Jordan, G., Brandl, E., Williams, A., Cesaretti, R., Krueger, M., Ceccqrelli, A., Figliulo-Rosswurm, J., Peregrine, P., Marciniak, A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Kradin, N., Korotayev, A., Palmisano, A., Baker, D., Bidmead, J., Bol, P., Christian, D., Cook, C., Covey, A., Feinman, G., Júlíusson, A. R., Kristinsson, A., Miksic, J., Mostern, R., Petrie, C., Rudiak-Gould, P., ter Haar, B., Wallace, V., Mair, V., Xie, L., Baines, J., Bridges, E., Manning, J., Lockhart, B., Tuan, P. J., Bogaard, A., and Spencer, C., 2018. Quantitative Historical Analyses Uncover a Single Dimension of Complexity that Structures Global Variation in Human Social Organization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (2), E144–E151. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858914

Kreppner, J., Amicone, S. R., Chelazzi, F., Egbers, V., Hashemi, Z., Palmisano, A., and Squitieri, A., 2017. Excavating Gird-i Bazar: the 2016 season. In: K. Radner, J. Kreppner & A. Squitieri (eds.), Unearthing the Dinka Settlement Complex: The 2016 Season at Gird-i Bazar and Qalat-i Dinka. Peshdar Plain Project Publications 2. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag, 57-103
https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1859141

Altaweel, M., Palmisano, A., and Mühl, S., 2016. In the land of the highlanders: From the kingdom of Simurrum to Mazamua in the Shahrizor. In: J. MacGinnis, D. Wicke, and A. Stone (eds.). The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 345-355. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858883

Altaweel, M., Palmisano, A., and Hritz, C., 2015. Evaluating Settlement Structures in the Ancient Near East using Spatial Interaction Entropy Maximization. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences, 8. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858667

Turchin, P., Brennan, R., Currie, T. E., Feeney, K. C., François, P., Hoyer, D., Manning, J. G., Marciniak, A., Mullins, D., Palmisano, A., Peregrine, P., Turner, E., and Whitehouse, H., 2015.  Seshat: Global History Databank. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 5 (2). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858670

Palmisano, A., 2015. Geo-Political Patterns and Connectivity in the Upper Khabur valley in the Middle Bronze Age. In: A. Archi (ed.), Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Rome, 4-8 July 2011. Winona lake: Eisenbrauns, 369-380. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858863

Palmisano, A., and, Altaweel, M., 2015. Landscapes of Interaction and Conflict in the Middle Bronze Age: From the open plain of the Khabur Triangle to the mountainous inland of Central Anatolia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 3, 216-236. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858854

Palmisano, A. and Altaweel, M., 2015.  Simulating Past Human Landscapes: Models of Settlement Hierarchy in Central Anatolia during the Old Assyrian Colony Period. In: F. Kulakoğlu and C. Michél (eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Kültepe International Meeting. Kültepe, September 19‐23, 2013. Studies Dedicated to Kutlu Emre. Kültepe International Meetings 1 (SUBARTU 35). Turnhout: Brepols, 131-146. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858855

Davies, T., Fry, H., Wilson, A. G., Palmisano, A., Altaweel, M., and Radner, K., 2014. Application of an entropy maximizing and dynamics model for understanding settlement structure: the Khabur Triangle in the Middle Bronze and Iron Ages. Journal of Archaeological Science, 43, 141-154. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858656

Palmisano, A., 2014. Geo-Politics and Trade in Central Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age. In: Bielinski, P., Gawlikowski, M., Kolinski, R., Lawecka, D., and Soltysiak, A. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 30 April - 4 May 2012. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz-Verlag, 51-63. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858853

Palmisano, A., 2013. Zooming Patterns Among the Scales: a Statistics Technique to Detect Spatial Patterns Among Settlements. In Earl, G., Sly, T., Chrysanthi, A., Murrieta-Flores, P., Papadopoulos, C., Romanowska, I., and Wheatley, D. (eds.), Archaeology in the Digital Era. Papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858579

Palmisano, A., 2013. Computational and Spatial Approaches to the Commercial Landscapes and Political Geography of the Old Assyrian Colony Period. In: L. Feliu, J. Llop, A. Millet Albà, J. Sanmartín (eds.), Time and History in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Barcelona 26–30 July 2010. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 751-766. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858839

Bevan, A, Crema, E.R., Li, Xiuzhen, and Palmisano, A., 2013. Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions. In: Bevan, A. and Lake, M. (eds.), Computational Approaches to Archaeological Space. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 27-51. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858576

Palmisano, A., 2013. Settlements Patterns and Interactions in the West Bank highlands in the Iron Age I period: A New Approach. In: L. Feliu, J. Llop, A. Millet Albà, J. Sanmartín (eds.), Time and History in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Barcelona 26–30 July 2010. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 767 -783. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858842

Palmisano, A., 2012. Diachronic and Spatial Distribution of Khabur Ware in the Early Second Millennium BC. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 1(2). https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1858458

 

Courses

• INTRODUZIONE AI SISTEMI INFORMATIVI GEOGRAFICI (GIS) IN ARCHEOLOGIA E STORIA (STS0549)
  Corso di laurea magistrale in
  Archeologia e Storia antica

Research topics

My research has been primarily centred on the development and application of bespoke quantitative and computational methods to Archaeology.  I apply these approaches to address a variety of research topics, including settlement patterns, long-term human-environment interactions, population dynamics, and long-distance cultural contacts and trade. I also took part, with roles of scientific responsibility, in several campaigns of archaeological fieldwork, primarily in Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Italy. I am currently working as a senior assistant professor in methods for archaeological research (3-year tenure track) and on the project "The Empire Strikes Back: the Geography of Governance Strategies in the Assyrian Empire" funded by the Rita Levi Montalcini programme for early career researchers. Furthermore, I am the Principal Investigator of the project "Governance Policies and Political Landscapes in the Southern Levant under the Neo-Assyrian Empire" funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

Research Interests

• GIS and Spatial Analysis
• Computational and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
• Near Eastern Archaeology and History
• Palaeodemography
• Human-Environment interactions
• Material culture and long-distance trade
• Landscape Archaeology
• Settlement Patterns
• Archaeological Survey and Excavation Methods

Research groups

• Archeologia

Research projects

• The Empire Strikes Back: The Geography of Governance Strategies in the Assyrian Empire
• Governance Policies and Political Landscapes in the Southern Levant under the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Academic bodies

• Commissione pratiche studenti e controllo carriere studenti laureandi
• Consiglio del Corso di laurea in Beni Culturali

• Consiglio del Corso di laurea magistrale in Archeologia e Storia antica

Office hours

Il docente riceve previo appuntamento tramite e-mail.
The teacher receives by appointment via e-mail.