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BA (2007) and MA (2009) in Archaeology at the University of Siena (curriculum in Medieval Archaeology). Collaboration in research activities at the IT Laboratory Applied to Medieval Archaeology (LIAAM) of the University of Siena (2005/2012). In 2013, PhD in Medieval Archaeology (University of Siena): dissertation on the end of Roman villas in Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-8th c. AD), updated and published in 2020 for the peer-reviewed series Munera (Edipuglia, Bari). In 2014, post-graduate Masters Diploma in GIS & Remote Sensing (Centre for Geo-Technologies/University of Siena). In 2014-2015, guest researcher at VU Amsterdam and postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). From 2016 to March 2019, research fellow on the project "Harvesting Memories" (University of Palermo) studying the ecology and archaeology of rural landscapes in the Sicani Mountains (C-W Sicily). In summer 2018, postdoctoral fellow at the DFG-Center for Advanced Studies on "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" of the University of Tübingen. In 2018-2021, postdoctoral scholar in the Getty-sponsored workshop series "Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval & Early Modern Cities". From March 2019 to August 2021, 2.5-year post-doc fellowship (Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación 2017 IJCI-2017-31494) at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA) of Granada. Currently he is PI of the project "The suburbium of Balarm (Palermo, Sicily) during the Islamic period (AD 831- 1071/1072): new archaeological perspectives" funded by The Barakat Trust. In November-December 2021 he will be visiting researcher at the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHA-CSIC) and postdoc fellow at the Department of History of the University of Tübingen from January to April 2022. From April 2022 to April 2023 he will be appointed as postdoc researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences within the PASIFIC Fellowship funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2018), project "IS_LANDAS Islamicate landscapes in southern Andalusia and western Sicily: patterns of change in settlements and rural communities between Late Antiquity and the Islamic age". Extensive experience in field archaeology (excavation and survey) in regions such as Sicily, Tuscany, Apulia, South Tyrol. Research mainly focuses on changes in rural and suburban settlement patterns between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Western Mediterranean, and recently on Sicilian countryside and suburbia in the Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic periods. PI and Field director of two excavation projects investigating the transition between the Islamic and Norman periods in the suburbs of Palermo (monumental complex of San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi) and Byzantine and Islamic periods in the rural site of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo). Approach to archaeological and historical data is targeted at interdisciplinary collaboration and interactions, in particular with environmental and geographical science (GIS). He was author of several publications (Scopus H.Ind 5; Google Sch. cit. 208; Google Sch. H.Ind 8) such as 1 book; 3 edited books (plus 2 in press); 1 journal special issue (plus 1 in press); 16 papers in peer-reviewed journals; 17 book chapters (plus 9 in press); 2 book reviews in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2012, I has presented his works (43 presentations, 19 posters) at several international scientific events in Europe and USA.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Angelo Castrorao-Barba

Citation names

  • Castrorao Barba, Angelo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DE16-478A-FB41
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4360-4328
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BcFR3XsAAAAJ&hl=it
Researcher Id
AAD-4195-2020
Scopus Author Id
57202359811

Email addresses

  • castroraobarba@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+39) 3490745438 (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/02/06 - 2015/01/29
Concluded
 Sistemi informativi Territoriali e Telerilevamento (Master)
Università degli Studi di Siena - Centro delle GeoTecnologie , Italy
"Analisi spaziali per modelli di archeologia predittiva: gli insediamenti rurali di epoca romana nella regione Argens-Maures (Var, PACA, France)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 27/30
2009/11/01 - 2013/05/28
Concluded
 Christian and Medieval Archaeology. "Scuola di Dottorato: Riccardo Francovich: Storia e Archeologia del Medioevo, Istituzioni e Archivi" (Doktor (PhD))
Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
"The end of Roman villas in Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-8th centuries) (original title in Italian "La fine delle ville romane in Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo (III - VIII secolo)")" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with dignity of publication
2007/02/10 - 2009/07/14
Concluded
 Archaeology (Laurea Specialistica)
Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
"Le trasformazioni delle ville romane tra tardantichità e altomedioevo: il caso dell'Italia centrale e meridionale (Christian and Medieval Archaeology, supervisor prof. Marco Valenti)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 110/110 cum laude
2004/09/10 - 2007/02/15
Concluded
 Scienze dei Beni Archeologici (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
"Lo scavo presso la Rocca di Staggia Senese: informatizzazione dei dati e preliminare descrizione del deposito archeologico (Christian and Medieval Archaeology, supervisor prof. Marco Valenti)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 110/110 cum laude
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/04/01 - 2024/04/01 Postdoc (Research) Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
2021/12/31 - 2022/04/13 Postdoc (Research) Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DFG Center for Advanced Studies 2496 "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Germany
2021/10/31 - 2021/12/16 Visiting Researcher (Research) Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, Italy
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2019/03/16 - 2021/08/15 Postdoc (Research) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2018/03/09 - 2019/03/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2018/06/04 - 2018/07/30 Postdoc (Research) Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DFG Center for Advanced Studies 2496 "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Germany
2016/12/19 - 2017/12/18 Contracted Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2016/05/06 - 2016/10/05 Contracted Researcher (Research) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2015/04/01 - 2016/04/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculteit der Letteren, Netherlands
2015/08/31 - 2016/01/18 Postdoc (Research) Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma, Italy
2014/09/01 - 2014/12/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculteit der Letteren, Netherlands
2009/11/01 - 2013/05/28 Research Trainee (Research) Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2012/06/01 - 2012/09/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Centre Camille Jullian Histoire et Archéologie de la Méditerranée de la Protohistoire à la fin de l'Antiquité, France
2010/04/13 - 2010/05/10 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Universidad del País Vasco Departamento de Geografía Prehistoria y Arqueología, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/07/30 - 2024/07/30 Producció agrària, alimentació i salut entre l'Antiguitat Tardana i l'Alta Edat Mitjana al nord-est de la península ibèrica
ARQ001SOL-119-2022
Researcher
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Ciències de l'Antiguitat i de l'Edat Mitjana, Spain
 Generalitat de Catalunya
Ongoing
2022/04/01 - 2024/04/01 MSCA-COFUND project: IS_LANDAS Islamicate landscapes in southern Andalusia and western Sicily: patterns of change in settlements and rural communities between Late Antiquity and the Islamic age
#260766
Principal investigator
Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
 Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Ongoing
2022/11/01 - 2024/01/11 Patterns of change in the countryside of Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Sicily (5th–11th c. AD): settlements, agrarian estates, economy and environment
AZ 33/F/21
Principal investigator
Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
 Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Ongoing
2021/06/30 - 2022/12/31 The suburbium of Balarm (Palermo, Sicily) during the Islamic period (AD 831- 1071/1072): new archaeological perspectives
The Barakat Trust Grant G2021:A3:747
Principal investigator
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
 Barakat Trust
Concluded
2022/07/21 - 2022/10/30 El monasterio altomedieval de Santa María de Melque (Toledo). Configuración arquitectónica y usos
ND
Researcher
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
 Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha Consejería de Educación Cultura y Deportes
Concluded
2021/06/01 - 2022/06/01 De asentamiento islámico a hospital normando: San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo, Sicilia)
PIAR_2021- 16
Researcher
Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, Italy
 Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Ongoing
2022/01/12 - 2022/04/13 Settlement patterns, trade and mobility in Byzantine and Islamic Sicily
Fellow2021
Post-doc Fellow
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DFG Center for Advanced Studies 2496 "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Germany
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Concluded
2018/05/31 - 2021/12/31 Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval & Early Modern Cities
GREATER MEDITERRANEAN 2019
Post-doc Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Getty Foundation
Ongoing
2021/06/24 - 2021/11/30 El monasterio altomedieval de Santa María de Melque (Toledo). Configuración arquitectónica, materialidad y territorio
000
Researcher
Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha Consejería de Educación Cultura y Deportes, Spain
 Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha Consejería de Educación Cultura y Deportes
Ongoing
2019/03/16 - 2021/08/15 Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación
IJCI-2017-31494
Principal investigator
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Arqueología de las primeras iglesias normandas en Sicilia: San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) 2020
Arqueología exterior 2020
Principal investigator
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Arqueología de las primeras iglesias normandas en Sicilia: San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) 2019
Arqueología exterior 2019
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Concluded
2018/06/01 - 2018/07/31 New incomers and the new shape of the world: the afterlife of Roman villas in Western Empire (300 - 800 CE)
Fellow2018
Post-doc Fellow
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DFG Center for Advanced Studies 2496 "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Germany
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Concluded
2015/08/31 - 2016/01/16 Mediterranean landscapes in transition (300-800 AD): comparing Western Sicily and Southern Apulia
KNIR Stipendium 2015
Post-doc Fellow
Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma, Italy
 Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Concluded
2014/09/01 - 2014/12/01 Development of ArcGIS/Python module for archaeological predictive modelling
PO FSE 2007-2013
Master Student Fellow
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
 Regione Sicilia
Concluded
2009/11/01 - 2013/05/28 The end of Roman villas in Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (3rd-8th centuries) (original title in Italian "La fine delle ville romane in Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo (III - VIII secolo)")
XXV ciclo. Sezione: Archeologia Medievale
PhD Student Fellow
Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Siena
Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Global archaeology and history of the rural landscapes of Italy between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Integrated systems of sources, methods and techniques for a sustainable development (original title in Italian)
2010H8WPKL
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italy

Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy

Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Italy

Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio Chieti Pescara, Italy

Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy

Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Università del Salento, Italy
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca

Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua SA
Concluded
2006/04/01 - 2006/06/30 Integrated Geographic Information Systems for the national archaeological heritage: operative structures for research and service structures for the management, protection and promotion of Cultural Heritage (original title in Italia)
PRIN2006
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Università del Salento, Italy

Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/02/01 - 2023/03/31 Panormos/Balarm (Palermo, Sicily) during Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic ages (4th-11th c. AD): urban, suburban and rural patterns of change
RomanIslam Fellow
Post-doc Fellow
DFG Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies”, University of Hamburg , Germany
DFG Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies”, University of Hamburg
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Harvesting Memories. Ecology and Archaeology of Monti Sicani Landscapes (Central Western Sicily) 2020
CON-0258
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
Bona Furtuna LLC
Ongoing
2019/06/01 - 2020/12/31 Estudo de Arqueologia da Arquitectura da Ermida de São Saturnino, Sintra, Portugal
000
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua SA
Concluded
2019/03/31 - 2019/12/31 Harvesting Memories. Ecology And Archaeology Of Monti Sicani Landscapes (Central Western Sicily) 2019
CON-0103
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
Bona Furtuna LLC
Concluded
2018/06/01 - 2019/12/31 In Quest of Islamic Heritage in Sicily: the San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) Archaeological Complex in Transition (from Islamic to Norman Periods, 10th-12th c.). Part 3
MajorAwards2018
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Barakat Trust
Concluded
2016/12/19 - 2019/03/09 Harvesting Memories. Ecology and Archaeology of Monti Sicani Landscapes (Central Western Sicily) 2017-2018
2017-COMM- 0101
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
Bona Furtuna LLC
Concluded
2017/01/10 - 2017/12/31 In Quest of Islamic Heritage in Sicily: the San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) Archaeological Complex in Transition (from Islamic to Norman Periods, 10th-12th c.). Part 2
MajorAwards2016
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
 Barakat Trust
Concluded
2016/05/06 - 2016/10/05 "Harvesting Memories". Ecologia ed Archeologia del Paesaggio dell'area di Mt. Barraù, 2016
2016-COMM- 0120
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
Bona Furtuna LLC
Concluded
2015/04/29 - 2015/08/30 "Harvesting Memories". Ecologia ed Archeologia del Paesaggio dell'area di Mt. Barraù 2015
2015-COMM- 0069
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
Bona Furtuna LLC
Concluded
2005/01/31 - 2007/12/31 Progetto Archeologia dei Paesaggi Medievali
ND
Master Student Fellow
Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
 Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. La fine delle ville romane in Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo (III-VIII secolo). Bari, Italy: Edipuglia. 2020.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.4475/926
Book chapter
  1. Cacciaguerra, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Dopo i paesaggi delle ville: nuove dinamiche insediative e siti d'altura nel mondo rurale della Sicilia tardoantica, bizantina ed islamica (V -X/XI sec.)". In Perchement et réalités fortifiées en Méditerranée et en Europe (Vème-Xèmesiècles). Formes, rythmes, fonctions et acteurs, edited by Pergola, Philippe; Castiglia, Gabriele; Essa Kas Hanna, Elia; Segura, J-A., 308-321. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023.
    Published
  2. BARBA, ANGELO CASTRORAO; MICCICHÈ, ROBERTO; PISCIOTTA, FILIPPO; SPECIALE, CLAUDIA; NERO, CARLA ALEO; MARINO, PASQUALE; BAZAN, GIUSEPPE. "The Rural Settlement of Contrada Castro (Sicily) between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages". In Archaeology of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, edited by Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Tanasi, Davide; Miccichè, Roberto, 240-265. Gainesville, United States: University Press of Florida, 2023.
    10.2307/j.ctv37vwf1q.15
  3. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Speciale, Claudia; Aleo Nero, Carla; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe. "A settlement in the Sicani Mountains between Byzantine and Islamic period (7th-11th c. AD): the case study of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo)". In Suburbia and Rural Landscapes in Medieval Sicily, edited by Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Mandalà, Giuseppe. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023.
    In press
  4. Bertoldi, Stefano; Castiglia, Gabriele; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Sea, rivers and roads: the Mediterranean connectivity of Ombrone Valley and the role of secondary settlements in Late Antique Tuscany (Central Italy)". In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry (LRCW6), edited by Caminneci, Valentina; Giannitrapani, Enrico; Parello, Maria Concetta; Rizzo, Maria Serena. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023.
    In press
  5. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Tanasi, Davide; Miccichè, Roberto. "Introduction". In Archaeology of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 1-10. Gainesville, United States: University Press of Florida, 2023.
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv37vwf1q.4
  6. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Castiglia, Gabriele. "Shifting Paradigms In A Shifting Background: An Introduction". In Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology: From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th-9th Centuries), 13-22. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2023.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1484/M.AMW-EB.5.130669
  7. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Dinamiche insedative 'paradossali' nella Sicilia rurale intorno al V secolo". In Topographia Christiana Universi Mundi. Scritti in onore di Philippe Pergola, edited by Castiglia, Gabriele; Dell'Osso, Carlo, 381-399. Rome, Vatican City: Pontificio Instituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2023.
    Published
  8. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Modelos de cambio en los asentamientos rurales en Italia durante la Antigüedad tardía y la Alta Edad Media: el final de las villas romanas y los paisajes rurales en la Sicilia bizantina e islámica". In Arqueología en el CSIC, edited by Montero Ruiz, Ignacio; Pizzo, Antonio, 193-199. Madrid, Spain: CSIC, 2023.
    In press
  9. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "The afterlife of Roman villas in Italy between the fifth and eighth centuries AD". In European Countryside during the Migration Period. Patterns of Change from Iberia to the Caucasus (300-700 CE), edited by Bavuso, Irene; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2023.
    In press
  10. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Mandalà, Giuseppe. "Introduction". In Suburbia and Rural Landscapes in Medieval Sicily, edited by Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Mandalà, Giuseppe. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress, 2023.
    In press
  11. Bavuso, Irene; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Patterns of Change: Multiregional Views on the Migration Period". In European Countryside during the Migration Period. Patterns of Change from Iberia to the Caucasus (300-700 CE), edited by Bavuso, Irene; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2023.
    In press
  12. Cacciaguerra, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "The Sicilian Countryside during the Byzantine Period: Archaeological Perspectives on Setlement Patterns". In Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology: From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th-9th Centuries), edited by Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Castiglia, Gabriele, 141-163. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022.
    Published • 10.1484/M.AMW-EB.5.130678
  13. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Bertoldi, Stefano. "Applicazioni di analisi spaziali GIS per lo studio della topografia cristiana". In Instrumentum domesticum. Archeologia Cristiana, temi, metodologie e cultura materiale della tarda antichità e dell’alto medioevo, edited by Castiglia, Gabriele; Pergola, Philippe, 729-746. Vatican City, Vatican City: , Pontificio Instituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2020.
    Published
  14. Bertoldi, Stefano; Castiglia, Gabriele; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "A Multi-scalar Approach to Long-Term Dynamics, Spatial Relations and Economic Networks of Roman Secondary Settlements in Italy and the Ombrone Valley System (Southern Tuscany): Towards a Model?". In Finding the Limits of the Limes, edited by Verhagen, Philip; Joyce, Jaime; Groenhuijzen, Mark R, 191-214. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04576-0_10
  15. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Vivere in villa dopo la villa: le fasi post-classiche delle ville romane in Italia tra V e VIII secolo". In Abitare nel Mediterraneo Tardoantico, edited by Baldini, Isabella; Sfameni, Carla, 315-326. Bari, Italy: Edipuglia, 2018.
    Published
  16. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Introduction: Insights on Late Antique and Early Medieval settlement patterns in Italian countryside". In Dinamiche insediative nelle campagne dell'Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo / Settlement patterns in the countryside of Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, edited by Castrorao Barba, Angelo, 1-4. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018.
    Published
  17. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe; Aleo Nero, Carla; Vassallo, Stefano. "Un nuovo insediamento rurale nel territorio dei Monti Sicani tra epoca bizantina e normanna: dati preliminari sul sito di lunga durata di Contrada Castro (Corleone, PA)". In Atti del VIII Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale, edited by Sogliani, Francesca, 254-258. Firenze, Italy: All'Insegna del Giglio, 2018.
    Published
  18. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Rotolo, Antonio; Bazan, Giuseppe; Marino, Pasquale; Vassallo, Stefano. "The Harvesting Memories Project: Landscape Archaeology in the Castro/Giardinello Valley and Mt. Barraù (Corleone, Palermo)". In Studi in memoria di Fabiola Ardizzone 2, Scavi, Topografia e Archeologia del paesaggio, edited by Carra, Rosa Maria; Vitale, Emma, 53-78. Palermo, Italy: Antipodes, 2018.
    Published
  19. Bertoldi, Stefano; Castiglia, Gabriele; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Approaching Roman secondary settlements in Italy: diachronic trends, spatial relationships and economic roles". In The Archaeology of Death, Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16-18, 2016, edited by Herring, Edward; O’Donoghue, Eóin, 483-493. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018.
    Published
  20. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Alcune statistiche sulle dinamiche cronologiche degli insediamenti secondari in Italia nella lunga durata tra età romana e Medioevo". In Statio amoena: sostare e vivere lungo le strade romane, edited by Basso, Patrizia; Zanini, Enrico, 121-128. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016.
    Published
  21. Nuninger, Laure; Verhagen, Philip; Bertoncello, Frédérique; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Estimating land use heritage to model changes in archaeological settlement patterns". In Proceedings of the 3rd International Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC) 2014 Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research in Landscape Archaeology¿. Amsterdam, Netherlands: VU University Amsterdam, 2016.
    Published • https://osf.io/e5frp/wiki/lac.2014.60/
  22. Nuninger, Laure; Verhagen, Philip; Bertoncello, Frédérique; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Estimating the memory of landscape to predict changes in archaeological settlement patterns". In CAA2015. Keep the Revolution Going. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, edited by Campana, Stefano; Scopigno, Roberto; Carpentiero, Gabriella; Cirillo, Marianna, 623-636. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016.
    Published
  23. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Entroterra tra due mari: il territorio di Castronovo di Sicilia (Palermo) in età romana e bizantina". In ), Storia e Archeologia Globale 2. I pascoli, i campi, il mare: paesaggi d'altura e di pianura in Italia dall'Età del Bronzo al Medioevo, edited by Cambi, Franco; De Venuto, Giovanni; Goffredo, Roberto, 253-267. Bari, Italy: Edipuglia, 2016.
    Published
  24. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Alcune considerazioni e problematiche sulle dinamiche degli insediamenti rurali in Sicilia tra V e VIII secolo". In Atti del VII Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale, edited by Arthur, Paul; Leo Imperiale, Marco, 383-386. Firenze, Italy: All'Insegna del Giglio, 2015.
    Published
  25. Bertoldi, Stefano; Castiglia, Gabriele; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Processualismo critico: un approccio allo studio delle relazioni ed economiche (paesaggi, insediamenti, merci)". In Atti del VII Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale, edited by Arthur, Paul; Leo Imperiale, Marco, 18-21. Firenze, Italy: All'Insegna del Giglio, 2015.
    Published
  26. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Ville romane e riusi tra Tardantichità e Altomedioevo: per un bilancio nazionale". In Atti del VI Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale, edited by Redi, Fabio; Forgione, Alfonso, 175-180. Firenze, Italy: All'Insegna del Giglio, 2012.
    Published
Book review
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Les bains de Cefalà (Xe-XIXe siècle) : pratiques thermales d'origine islamique dans la Sicile médiévale / I bagni di Cefalà (secoli X-XIX) : pratiche termali d'origine islamica nella Sicilia medievale". Review of Les bains de Cefalà (Xe-XIXe siècle) : pratiques thermales d'origine islamique dans la Sicile médiévale / I bagni di Cefalà (secoli X-XIX) : pratiche termali d'origine islamica nella Sicilia medievale 7 (2020): 101-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jia.18275.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jia.18275
  2. Castrorao Barba, Angelo (DE16-478A-FB41). "Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Archaeological Approaches and Issues. Edited by PilarDiarte-Blasco and NeilChristie. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2018. 236 pp. ISBN 9781789250343.". 28, 2 (2020): 312-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emed.12396.
    Published • 10.1111/emed.12396
Conference abstract
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Sfameni, Carla. "La fine delle ville in Sicilia: crisi, metamorfosi e resilienza tra tarda antichità e altomedioevo". Paper presented in 4th CISEM International Congress, Housing in Late Antique Mediterranean, Cuenca, 2022.
    Published
  2. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Utrero Agudo, María de los Ángeles; Battaglia, Giuseppina; Mandalà, Giuseppe; Murillo Fragero, José Ignacio; Aleo Nero, Carla; Miccichè, Roberto; Canale, Alessandra. "From Islamic settlement to Norman hospital: archaeological research in San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo, Sicily, Italia)". Paper presented in 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Budapest, 2022.
    Published
  3. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Aleo Nero, Carla; Speciale, Claudia; Montana, Giuseppe; Gasparo Morticelli, Maurizio; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Interdisciplinary approaches on the rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Sicily, Italia) during the Early Middle Ages". Paper presented in 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Budapest, 2022.
    Published
  4. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Landscape trajectories and an Early Medieval settlement in Central-Western Sicily: the case of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo)". Paper presented in Jubilee Conference "The Past Has a Future!", Warsaw, 2019.
    Published
  5. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Filippo, Pisciotta; Miccichè, Roberto; Montana, Giuseppe; Gasparo Morticelli, Maurizio; Aleo Nero, Carla; Vassallo, Stefano; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Pottery and production in Western Sicily between the 8th and 9th c. AD: the case of the rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Palermo)". Paper presented in 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares - LRCW 7, Valencia, 2019.
    Published
  6. Aleo Nero, Carla; Iannì, Filippo; Chiovaro, Monica; Vassallo, Stefano; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Filippo, Pisciotta. "Palermo (Sicilia). Contesti altomedievali dagli scavi urbani, dati archeologici e associazioni ceramiche". 2019.
    Published
  7. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Bazan, Giuseppe; Speciale, Claudia; Vassallo, Stefano; Marino, Pasquale. "Archaeobotanical analysis from the long-term rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo): preliminary data". Paper presented in 14° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana VI INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE (IPSC)., Padova, 2019.
    Published
  8. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Marino, Pasquale; Aleo Nero, Carla; Vassallo, Stefano; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Long-term Occupation of a Medieval rural settlement in Sicani Mountains (C-W Sicily): new data from Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo)". Paper presented in 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, 2018.
    Published
  9. Bertoldi, Stefano; Castiglia, Gabriele; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Sea, rivers and roads: the Mediterranean connectivity of the Ombrone Valley and the Roman secondary settlements in Late Antique Italy". Paper presented in 6th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean: Archaeology and Archaeometry: land and sea: pottery routes, Agrigento, 2017.
  10. Gianguzzi, Lorenzo; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Bazan, Giuseppe. "History and forest vegetation dynamics of the Favorita Park in the Palermo suburbs (NW Sicily)". Paper presented in Into the Woods: overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests, Padova, 2017.
    Published
  11. Bazan, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Gianguzzi, Lorenzo; Baiamonte, Giuseppe; Corselli, Rocco; Schicchi, Rosario; Martín Civantos, José María. "Human footprint into the woodland of Bosco della Foresta (Trapani Mountains, N-W Sicily)". Paper presented in Into the Woods: overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests, Padova, 2017.
    Published
  12. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Rotolo, Antonio; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Making a rural landscape: ecological and human dynamics in the holm oak forest of Mt. Barraù (Corleone, Palermo, C-W Sicily)". Paper presented in Into the Woods: overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests, Padova, 2017.
    Published
  13. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Rotolo, Antonio; Marino, Pasquale; Vassallo, Stefano; Bazan, Giuseppe. ""Harvesting Memories ": Integrated approaches of Human Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in rural Sicily, the case of Castro Valley and Mt. Barraù (Corleone, Palermo)". Paper presented in 4th International Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC2016), Uppsala, 2016.
    Published
  14. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Mukai, Tomoo; Vassallo, Stefano. "Inland between two seas: the territory of Castronovo di Sicilia from Roman to Byzantine period". Paper presented in 3rd International Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2014), Roma, 2014.
Edited book
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Tanasi, Davide; Miccichè, Roberto. Archaeology of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Middle Age. Gainesville, United States: University Press of Florida. 2023.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv37vwf1q • Editor
  2. Bavuso, Irene; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. The European Countryside during the Migration Period. Patterns of Change from Iberia to the Caucasus (300-700 CE). Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. 2023.
    In press • Editor
  3. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Mandalà, Giuseppe. Suburbia and Rural Landscapes in Medieval Sicily. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology. 2022.
    Under revision • Editor
  4. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Gabriele, Castiglia. Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology: From Justinian to the Abbasid Age (6th-9th Centuries). Turnhout:, Belgium: Brepols. 2022.
    Published • 10.1484/M.AMW-EB.5.126097 • Editor
  5. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. Dinamiche insediative nelle campagne dell'Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo / Settlement patterns in the countryside of Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress Archaeology. 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Bertoldi, Stefano; Castiglia, Gabriele; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Menghini, Cristina. "Soundscape and catchment analysis for a spatial geography of Medieval monastic estates in southeastern Tuscany (11th-12th century)". Archeologia e Calcolatori 33 2 (2022): 171-190. https://doi10.19282/ac.33.2.2022.00.
    Published • https://doi10.19282/ac.33.2.2022.00
  2. Bazan, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Historical Ecology, Archaeology and Biocultural Landscapes: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Long Anthropocene". Sustainability 14 9 (2022): 5017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14095017.
    Published • 10.3390/su14095017
  3. Bazan, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Speciale, Claudia; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Aleo Nero, Carla; Marino, Pasquale. "The Harvesting Memories Project: Historical ecology and landscape changes of the Sicani Mountains in Sicily". Ecocycles 8 1 (2022): 51-60. https://www.ecocycles.net/ojs/index.php/ecocycles/article/view/219.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.19040/ecocycles.v8i1.219
  4. Montana, Giuseppe; Gasparo Morticelli, Maurizio; Bazan, Giuseppe; Pisciotta, Filippo; Aleo Nero, Carla; Marino, Pasquale; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Sources of geomaterials in the Sicani Mountains during the Early Middle Ages: A case study of Contrada Castro, central western Sicily". Geoarchaeology 37 4 (2022): 617-636. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21900.
    Published • 10.1002/gea.21900
  5. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Speciale, Claudia; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Aleo Nero, Carla; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe. "The Sicilian Countryside in the Early Middle Ages: Human-Environment Interactions at Contrada Castro". Environmental Archaeology (2021): 1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1911768.
    10.1080/14614103.2021.1911768
  6. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Speciale, Claudia; Aleo Nero, Carla; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Nuovi dati sull'occupazione altomedievale dell'insediamento di Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) nell'area dei Monti Sicani". FOLD&R the Journal of Fasti Online 2020 468 (2020): 1-15. http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2020-468.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  7. Todaro, Pietro; Barbera, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Qanats and historical irrigated landscapes in Palermo's suburban area (Sicily)". PCA European Journal of Postclassical Archaeologies 10 (2020): 335-370. http://www.postclassical.it/PCA_Vol.10_files/PCA10_Todaro-et-al.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  8. Bazan, Giuseppe; Speciale, Claudia; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Cambria, Salvatore; Miccichè, Roberto; Marino, Pasquale. "Historical Suitability and Sustainability of Sicani Mountains Landscape (Western Sicily): An Integrated Approach of Phytosociology and Archaeobotany". Sustainability 12 8 (2020): 3201. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083201.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/su12083201
  9. Bazan, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Rotolo, Antonio; Marino, Pasquale. "Vegetation series as a marker of interactions between rural settlements and landscape: new insights from the archaeological record in Western Sicily". Landscape Research 45 4 (2020): 484-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2020.1730774.
    Published • 10.1080/01426397.2020.1730774
  10. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Miccichè, Roberto; Pisciotta, Filippo; Marino, Pasquale; Bazan, Giuseppe; Aleo Nero, Carla; Vassallo, Stefano. "Archeologia nel territorio dei Monti Sicani (Harvesting Memories project). L'insediamento di lunga durata di Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo). Prima campagna di scavo 2017". FOLD&R the Journal of Fasti Online 2018 416 (2018): 1-21. http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2018-416.pdf.
    Open access • Published
  11. Bazan, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Rotolo, Antonio; Marino, Pasquale. "Geobotanical approach to detect land-use change of a Mediterranean landscape: a case study in Central-Western Sicily". GeoJournal 84 3 (2018): 795-811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9892-1.
    Published • 10.1007/s10708-018-9892-1
  12. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Rotolo, Antonio; Bazan, Giuseppe; Marino, Pasquale; Vassallo, Stefano. "Long-term human occupation of a rural landscape in central-western Sicily (Castro/Giardinello valley and mt Barraù): Harvesting memoires project case study". ArkeoGazte: Revista de arqueología - Arkelogia aldizkaria 2017 7 (2017): 175-192. https://www.arkeogazte.org/monografico-like-a-rolling-stone-arqueologia-de-las-migraciones/.
    Open access • Published
  13. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Metalworking in the Post-Classical phases of Roman villas in Italy (5th-7th centuries AD)". Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge 129-2 (2017): 411-425. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/mefrm.3692.
    Open access • Published • 10.4000/mefrm.3692
  14. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Sicily before the Muslims. The Transformation of the Roman Villas between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Fourth to Eighth Centuries CE". Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies 3 1-2 (2016): 145-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtms-2016-0005.
    Published • 10.1515/jtms-2016-0005
  15. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Le ville romane in Italia tra III e VI sec. d C.: approccio statistico e considerazioni generali". Amoenitas. Rivista internazionale di studi miscellanei sulla Villa Romana antica 3 (2014): 9-24.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1400/228211
  16. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Continuità topografica in discontinuità funzionale: trasformazioni e riusi delle ville romane in Italia tra III e VIII secolo". PCA: The European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies 4 (2014): 259-296. http://www.postclassical.it/PCA_vol.4_files/PCA%204_CastroraoBarba.pdf.
    Open access • Accepted
Journal issue
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Diarte-Blasco, Pilar; Castro-Priego, Manuel; Bazan, Giuseppe. "Resilience in Historical Landscapes". Land (2023):
    In press • Editor
  2. Bazan, Giuseppe; Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Long Anthropocene". Sustainability (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Historical_Ecology_Landscape_Archaeology_Cross-Disciplinary_Approaches_Long_Anthropocene.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.3390/BOOKS978-3-0365-4304-8 • Coeditor
Newspaper article
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Massilia-fai-avans", L'Ora Quotidiano, 2015, https://www.loraquotidiano.it/blog/massilia-fai-avans/?fbclid=IwAR3J3sECg3FwFvY1z8UtzrwHWsGDmwcaOQJtaE8R6oc6EFWMdQ4hxk2OMuU.
  2. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Finestre temporali", L'Ora Quotidiano, 2014, https://www.loraquotidiano.it/blog/finestre-temporali/?fbclid=IwAR0qbOSIUNYmPedQYbws1xUYjnsVEBoa7J8HTFS4F64tBBP1kJ2m2CSBjYk.
Report
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo; Murillo Fragero, José Ignacio; Utrero Agudo, María de los Ángeles. 2020. Archaeology of the site of San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi, Palermo. Teport of the second archaeological excavation season, 2019.
  2. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. 2019. Studio diacronico del sistema rurale dei Monti Sicani attraverso indagini di archeologia ed ecologia del paesaggio, progetto HARVESTING MEMORIES. ECOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY OF MONTI SICANI LANDSCAPES (CENTRAL-WESTERN SICILY), Dipartimento STEBICEF, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
  3. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. 2017. Relazione finale borsa di studio progetto “Harvesting Memories. Ecologia ed Archeologia del Paesaggio dell’area di Mt. Barraù (Corleone, PA).
  4. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. 2017. Relazione saggio di scavo presso il cantiere di Palazzo Scavuzzo-Trigona, vano su via Garibaldi civico n. 63 (Palermo).
  5. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. 2017. Relazione sorveglianza archeologica Scavo AMAP (18-19 luglio 2017), Via Alloro tra vicolo delle Travi e via IV Aprile (Palermo).
  6. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. 2016. Assistenza ripulitura e scavo archeologico in Contrada Muratore (Castellana Sicula, Palermo) – 2-16 agosto 2016.
  7. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. 2015. Studio e analisi diacronica della storia insediativa nell’area di Monte Barraù/ Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo).
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Analisi spaziali per modelli di archeologia predittiva: gli insediamenti rurali di epoca romana nella regione Argens-Maures (Var, PACA, France)". Master, Università degli Studi di Siena - Centro delle GeoTecnologie, 2015.
  2. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "La fine delle ville romane in Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo (III-VIII secolo)". PhD, Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, 2013.
  3. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Le trasformazioni delle ville romane tra tardantichità e altomedioevo: il caso dell'Italia centrale e meridionale". Master, Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, 2009.
  4. Castrorao Barba, Angelo. "Lo scavo presso la Rocca di Staggia Senese: informatizzazione dei dati e preliminare descrizione del deposito archeologico". Degree, Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, 2007.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/05/25 Changing settlement patterns in Western Sicily during Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic periods Agrarian changes and rural settlement patterns in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Western Mediterranean
DFG Center for Advanced Studies ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity. and the Early Middle Ages' University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
2023/05/09 Archeologia dei paesaggi islamici: temi, prospettive e ricerche in corso nella Sicilia occidentale Archeologia dei paesaggi islamici: temi, prospettive e ricerche in corso nella Sicilia occidentale
University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
2023/03/25 El yacimiento del Cortijo de Las Mezquitas (Antequera-Campillos-Sierra De Yeguas, Málaga) nuevas perspectivas arqueológicas sobre un conjunto Altomedieval VII Congreso De Arqueología Medieval (España - Portugal)
Asociación Española de Arqueología Medieval (AEAM) (Sigüenza, Spain)
2023/03/11 From Madinat Siqilliya/Balarm (Palermo) to Qurliyun (Corleone): current archaeological research between suburbium and countryside during the Islamic period (9th-11th c. CE) Islamic Archaeology Day 2023
Institute of Archaeology, University College London (London, United Kingdom)
2023/01/06 Changing landscapes in Byzantine and Islamic Sicily (6th-11th c. CE) Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) (New Orleans, United States)
2022/11/09 La fine delle ville in Sicilia: crisi, metamorfosi e resilienza tra tarda antichità e altomedioevo 4th CISEM International Congress, Housing in Late Antique Mediterranean
Centro Interuniversitario di Studi sull’Edilizia abitativa tardoantica nel Mediterraneo (Cuenca, Spain)
2022/10/17 From villa to rahal: rural settlement patterns across socio-political changes in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Sicily Times of Transition: Socio-economic changes in the post-imperial Mediterranean (4th-8th c. CE)
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2022/09/01 From Islamic settlement to Norman hospital: archaeological research in San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo, Sicily, Italia) 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
European Association of Archaeologists (Budapest, Hungary)
2022/01/25 Sicilian countryside during Late Antiquity, Byzantine and Islamic periods: archaeological perspectives Seminar für Alte Geschichte Kolloquiumsvorträge im WS 2021/22
Eberhard- Karls-Universität Tu¨bingen (Tübingen, Germany)
2021/10/28 Modelos y cambio en los asentamientos rurales en Italia durante la Antigüedad tardía y la Alta Edad Media: el final de las villas romanas y los paisajes rurales en la Sicilia bizantina e islámica La Arqueología en el CSIC
Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR-CSIC) (Rome, Italy)
2021/06/10 Evaluating post-Roman resilience in Tuscan landscapes (5th-8th c. CE): settlement dynamics and ‘land use heritage’ Session "Post-classical resilient landscapes and urbanscapes: continuities, breakdowns and afterlife in Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 400-1000)" at 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2020+1), CSIC-CCHS, Madrid
CSIC-CCHS, Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2021/05/07 Metodologie di archeologia dell'architettura. Il caso studio del progetto di San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi a Palermo L'architettura normanna a Palermo e la città contemporanea
Università degli Studi di Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
2020/12/03 Archaeology of Sicilian countryside during Late Antiquity, Byzantine and Islamic periods (4th-11th c. CE) Lecture Series Fall 2020
Archaeological Institute of America Tampa Bay Society (Tampa, United States)
2020/11/27 Descubrir la Sicilia post-clásica: un viaje arqueológico entre la Antigüedad tardía y la Edad Media Noche Europea de l@s Investigador@s 2020
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada (Granada, Spain)
2020/11/19 Rural settlements between Byzantine and Islamic Sicily International conference “The impact of Islam in changing’ cities and landscapes between 7th and 11th c. CE (Africa, Sicily, Al-Andalus) / El impacto de las sociedades islámicas en ciudades y paisajes cambiantes entre los siglos VII y XI (África, Sicilia, Al-Andalus)"
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada (Granada, Spain)
2020/11/10 Arqueología de campo para investigar la Sicilia altomediéval Semana de la Ciencia - Café con Ciencia
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada (Granada, Spain)
2020/10/26 SIG y arqueología del paisaje en los Monti Sicani (Sicilia occidental): algunos casos de estudio del proyecto «Harvesting Memories», II Jornada Eines 2.0 aplicades a l’estudi de l’Edat Mitjana
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2020/10/22 Dinámicas de cristianización del territorio y el final de las villas romanas en Italia Seminario Internacional "La Cristianización de las villas romanas de Hispania"
Universidad Internacional del Mar (Yecla, Spain)
2020/01/12 Layered Palimpsests Medieval Mediterranean Heritage between Classical legacies, post-Medieval re-use and trans-culturalism in Sicily 3rd workshop “Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities”
Getty Foundation (Thessaloniki, Greece)
2019/12/13 Landscape trajectories and an Early Medieval settlement in Central-Western Sicily: the case of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Jubilee Conference "The Past Has a Future!"
University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology (Waarsaw, Poland)
2019/12/12 Late antique, Byzantine and Islamic rural settlement patters in Sicily (4th-11th c. AD): general overview and new data from the site of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Seminar series "Architecture History Travel Notes
Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Turkey)
2019/12/06 Inland settlement patterns in Western Sicily between the Byzantine and the Islamic period (6th -11th c. AD) Workshop “The Byzantine Countryside: Insular and Coastal Perspectives”
Bilkent University, Department of History, Ankara (Ankara, Turkey)
2019/11/14 Arqueología de la Sicilia bizantina e islámica (siglos VI-XI) Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en el CSIC 2019
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019/10/20 Dopo i paesaggi delle ville: nuove dinamiche insediative e siti d’altura nel mondo rurale della Sicilia tardoantica, bizantina ed islamica (V-X/XI secolo) International Conference “Perchement et réalités fortifiées en méditerranée et en Europe (Ve-Xe siècles)”
Aix-Marseille Université (Roquebrune-sur-Argens, France)
2019/10/17 Pottery and production in Western Sicily between the 8th and 9th c. AD: the case of the rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Palermo) 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares - LRCW 7
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2019/10/16 Contesti altomedievali dagli scavi urbani, dati archeologici e associazioni ceramiche 7th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares - LRCW 7
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2019/09/27 Más allá de al-Andalus: Arqueología Bizantina e Islámica en Sicilia Noche Europea de l@s Investigador@s 2019
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019/07/02 Introduction to the Symposium 46 “Landscape trajectories during the long Anthropocene: dialogues between ecology and archaeology” 10th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress
University of Milano-Bicocca, (Milano, Italy)
2019/04/11 Archeologia ed ecologia dei paesaggi: l’esempio dei Monti Sicani Seminari di Storia Intellettuale del Medioevo
Università degli Studi di Milano (Milano, Italy)
2019/03/22 Settlement patterns in 5th century Sicilian countryside International conference Italy in the 5th Century: Social, Political and Economic Transformations in a Society under Stress, 395-493 CE
University of Tuebingen; DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Istituto Svizzero di Roma; Istituto Archeologico Germanico di Roma (Roma, Italy)
2019/01/03 Afterlife of Hilltop Settlements in Sicily between Antiquity and the Middle Ages: The Excavation in Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) 120th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) (San Diego, United States)
2018/12/07 Interdisciplinary approach to analyse land-use change and relationship between rural archaeological settlements and vegetation patterns of a Mediterranean landscape: a case study in Central-Western Sicily Séminaire d'archéologie spatiale
CNRS, MSHE, Besançon (Besançon, France)
2018/09/18 Irrigation systems, gardens, agrarian landscapes and rural settlement patterns in Islamic and Norman Sicily 5th International Landscape Archaeology Conference
University of Newcastle (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
2018/09/07 Landscapes of Christianisation: emergence and evolution of Ecclesiastical power in Tuscan countryside during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/09/06 Long-term Occupation of a Medieval rural settlement in Sicani Mountains (C-W Sicily): new data from Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/07/20 New Incomers and the 'New Shape of the World': the Afterlife of Roman villas in Western Empire (300-800 CE) The Micropolitics of Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 2nd Research Forum of the Tu¨bingen Center of Advanced Studies, “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”
Eberhard- Karls-Universität Tu¨bingen (Tu¨bingen, Germany)
2018/04/12 Tuscan Countryside in Late Antiquity (4th-6th c. A.D.): Settlement Patterns, Christian Topography and Economic Trajectories Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC)
University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2018/02/22 Archeologia medievale degli insediamenti rurali nella Sicilia centro-occidentale: quadro generale e nuovi dati dallo scavo di Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Seminario de Arqueología y Arquitectura Medieval
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada (Granada, Spain)
2017/04/19 Human footprint into the woodland of Bosco della Foresta (Trapani Mountains, N-W Sicily) International conference “Into the Woods: overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests”
Università degli Studi di Padova (Padova, Italy)
2017/01/26 Multi-scalar approach to long-term dynamics, spatial relations and economic networks of the Roman secondary settlements in Italy: towards a model? International conference “Finding the limits of the limes”
VU University Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2016/11/19 The afterlife of the Roman villas in Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (5th-8th c. AD) Journée d'études “La transition entre les sites antiques et l'édification des premières églises”
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, UMR Ausonius 5607 (Bordeaux, France)
2016/11/10 Framing Bio-Cultural Landscape in Sicily: MEMOLA and Harvesting Memories projects AGROBIODIVMED meeting
Università degli Studi di Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
2016/11/02 Harvesting Memories to recompose the rural landscape history: Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in the Castro/Giardinello Valley and the area of Mt. Barraù (Corleone-Palermo) International Mediterranean Survey Workshop
Università degli Studi di Palermo (Palermo, Italy)
2016/04/17 Approaching Roman Secondary Settlements in Italy: diachronic trends, spatial relationships and economic roles Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology
NUI Galway (Galway, Ireland)
2016/03/02 Vivere in villa dopo la villa: ri-occupazioni e ri-funzionalizzazioni delle ville romane in Italia tra V e VIII secolo Vivere nel Mediterraneo tardoantico / Living in Late Antique Mediterranean - International Congress
Università di Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
2015/11/09 Mediterranean Landscapes in Transition (300-1100): comparing Western Sicily and Southern Apulia "Leggere il territorio: metodologie, dati e modelli a confronto"
International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) (Roma)
2015/04/23 Reusing Roman villas in Italy from the Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (4th-7th/8th c. AD): a statistical approach 9th Early Medieval Archaeology Student Symposium EMASS
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2015/03/30 Estimating the memory of landscape to predict changes in archaeological settlement patterns CAA 2015 43rd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology “Keep the revolution going”
Università degli Studi di Siena (Siena, Italy)
2015/02/12 Post Classical Mediterranean Landscapes (300 - 1100): Landscape and Public Archaeology in the inlands of Palermo and Taranto KNIR Debate
Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) (Roma, Italy)
2014/11/07 Preliminary data about the territory of Castronovo di Sicilia (Palermo, Sicily) 28th International Mediterranean Survey workshop
University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)
2014/09/17 Inland between two seas: the territory of Castronuovo di Sicilia from Roman to Byzantine period 3rd International Landscape Archaeology Conference
Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) (Roma, Italy)
2014/01/21 Riusi e trasformazioni delle ville romane in Italia tra III e VII/VIII secolo: approccio statistico da una schedatura dei contesti editi, Incontri tardoantichi a Roma (ITAR) – Rencontres d’Antiquité tardive à Rome – Late Antique Seminar in Rome – Begegnungen zur Spätantike in Rom
École française de Rome (Roma, Italy)
2013/06/17 Considerazioni sugli insediamenti rurali in Sicilia ‘dopo la fine delle ville’ (V-VIII secolo): continuità insediativa, riusi di strutture romane preesistenti e siti di nuova fondazione Atelier Doctoral De Specialisation Mondes méditerranéens et Italie méridionale, pouvoirs locaux et pouvoirs centraux, VIe-XVe siècles
École française de Rome; Università di Salerno (Salerno, Italy)
2012/09/13 Ville romane e riusi tra Tardantichità e Altomedioevo: per un bilancio nazionale VI Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale della Società degli Archeologia Medievisti Italiani (SAMI)
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (L'Aquila, Italy)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/06/26 - 2023/06/26 Conference: "Ricerche in corso dell'Istituto di Archeologia ed Etnologia dell'Accademia Polacca delle Scienze sull'archeologia del Mediterraneo medievale in Sicilia e Andalusia" at the Rome Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2023/06/26 - 2023/06/26)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk Osrodek Studiów Pradziejowych i Sredniowiecznych, Poland
2023/05/25 - 2023/05/25 International conference: "Agrarian changes and rural settlement patterns in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Western Mediterranean" at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", University of Tübingen (2023/05/25 - 2023/05/25)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DFG Center for Advanced Studies 2496 "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", Germany
2023/05/09 - 2023/05/09 Workshop: "Paesaggi, archeologia ed ecologia metodi e ricerche per lo studio dei territori siciliani nella lunga durata" at the Department Cultures and Societies of the University of Palermo (2023/05/09 - 2023/05/09)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Università degli Studi di Palermo Dìpartimento Culture e Socíetà, Italy
2023/01/06 - 2023/01/06 Session: "Islands and Coastal spaces in the Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean" at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), New Orleans (USA) (2023/01/05 - 2023/01/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Archaeological Institute of America, United States
2021/06/08 - 2021/06/11 Session "Post-classical resilient landscapes and urbanscapes: continuities, breakdowns and afterlife in Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 400-1000)" at 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2020+1), CSIC-CCHS, Madrid (2021/06/08 - 2021/06/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2020/11/19 - 2020/11/20 International conference " The impact of Islam in changing cities and landscapes between 7th and 11th c. CE (Africa, Sicily, Al-Andalus) / El impacto de las sociedades islámicas en ciudades y paisajes cambiantes entre los siglos VII y XI (África, Sicilia, Al-Andalus)", at the Escuela de Estudios Árabes (CSIC, EEA), Granada (2020/11/19 - 2020/11/20)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain

European Association of Archaeologists , Czech Republic
2020/03/12 - 2020/03/12 International Conference "Perspectives on Byzantine Archaeology between Justinian and the Islamic conquests (6th-11th century)" at the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma (EEHAR), Roma (2020/03/12 - 2020/03/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain

Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/22 International Conference "Patterns of change: the European countryside during the Migration period (300-700 CE)" at the DFG Centercfor Advanced Studies ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’ of the University of Tu¨bingen (Germany). (2019/11/21 - 2019/11/22)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

European Association of Archaeologists , Czech Republic
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/07 Symposium 46 "Landscape trajectories during the long Anthropocene: dialogues between ecology and archaeology" at the 10th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress, University of Milan-Bicocca (2019/07/01 - 2019/07/07) International Association for Landscape Ecology, United States
2019/01/03 - 2019/01/06 Colloquium "Afterlife of Ancient Urbanscapes and Rural Landscapes in Post-Classical Mediterranean (A.D. 400-1300)" at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), San Diego (California, USA) (2019/01/03 - 2019/01/06)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Archaeological Institute of America, United States
2018/09/05 - 2018/09/08 Session "Suburbia and rural landscapes in Medieval Sicily" at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), University of Barcelona (2018/09/05 - 2018/09/08)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Prehistoria Historia Antiga i Arqueologia, Spain

European Association of Archaeologists , Czech Republic
2018/04/12 - 2018/04/12 Session "The Mediterranean Countryside in Late Antiquity (300-600 CE)" at the Roman Archaeology Conference RAC 2018 (2018/04/12 - 2018/04/14)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 The University of Edinburgh School of History Classics and Archaeology, United Kingdom
2016/01/13 - 2016/01/13 Conference "Archeologia tardoantica e altomedievale in Italia (IV-X secolo): ricerche in corso" (2016/01/13 - 2016/01/13)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma, Italy

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/04/04 - Current Educational activity of High-School teacher about "Medioevo mediterraneo-eurasiatico. Nuove strade per la ricerca archeologica. Il mestiere dell'archeologo", as port of the event "Roma Racconta: le professioni del patrimonio culturale" at the Museo di Roma
Seminar
 Medioevo mediterraneo-eurasiatico. Nuove strade per la ricerca archeologica. Il mestiere dell'archeologo
Soprintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, Italy
2022/12/17 - Current Education activity in High School about "Professione: archeologi. Raccontando i metodi dell'archeologia e le ricerche nel territorio corleonese" within the programme "Cultural Week" at the High-School "G. Colletto" of Corleone (Sicily)
Seminar
 “Professione: archeologi! Raccontando i metodi dell’archeologia e le ricerche nel territorio corleonese”
2021/11/04 - Current POSTER - Micchichè R., CASTRORAO BARBA A., Pisciotta F., Sineo L., Marino P., Bazan G. (November 2021), "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi": Analisi diacronica dello sfruttamento della risorsa animale in un insediamento rurale altomedievale della Sicilia occidentale (C.da Castro, Corleone) 10° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia (AIAZ)
Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/01 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Miccichè R., Pisciotta F., Aleo Neo C., Speiale C., Montana G., Gasparo Morticelli M., Marino P., Bazan G. (September 2022), Interdisciplinary approaches on the rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Sicily, Italia) during the Early Middle Ages
Congress
 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
European Association of Archaeologists , Czech Republic
2022/06/27 - 2022/07/01 Poster - G. Bazan, V. Romano, CASTRORAO BARBA. A., L. Sineo (June 2022), Past vegetation dynamics and human peopling of Sicily during the Holocene
Conference
 64th Annual Symposium of International Association for Vegetation Science
International Association for Vegetation Science, United States
2021/11/08 - 2021/11/13 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Pisciotta F., Montana G., Gasparo Morticelli M., Miccichè R., Aleo Nero C., Marino P., Bazan G. (November 2021), Early Medieval pottery and production in the rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Western Sicily)
Conference
 XIII Congreso Internacional de Cerámica Medieval y Postmedieval del Mediterráneo
Universidad de Granada, Spain
2020/12/18 - 2020/12/18 Presentation of the book "Castrorao Barba A. 2020, LA FINE DELLE VILLE ROMANE IN ITALIA TRA TARDA ANTICHITÀ E ALTO MEDIOEVO (III-VIII SECOLO), Munera 49, Edipuglia, Bari"
Other
 Dialoghi con gli autori
GRIMM - Gruppo di ricerca per il Mezzogiorno Medievale, Italy
2019/11/30 - 2019/12/01 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A, Speciale C, Miccichè R, Pisciotta F, Vassallo S, Marino P, Bazan G. (November 2019), Human-environment interactions in Sicilian inland during the Early Middle Ages (8 th -11 th c. AD): the case of Contrada Castro (C-W Sicily)
Conference
 40th Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference, University of Sheffield (UK)
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
2019/09/04 - 2019/09/07 Poster - Bazan G., Speciale C., CASTRORAO BARBA A., Vassallo S., Marino P. (September 2019), Archaeobotanical analysis from the long-term rural settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo): preliminary data
Conference
 114° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2018/11/29 - 2018/12/01 Poster - Miccichè R., CASTRORAO BARBA A., Pisciotta F., Sineo L., Valenti P., Vassallo S., Marino P., Bazan G. (November 2018), Il Complesso faunistico di età medievale dell’insediamento di altura di Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo). Rapporto preliminare
Conference
 9° Convegno Nazionale di ArcheoZoologia, University of Bologna-Ravenna (Italy)
Università di Bologna - Campus di Ravenna, Italy
2018/10/09 - 2018/10/09 Nuove scoperte archeologiche nella provincia di Palermo: la Terravecchia di Caltavuturo e Contrada Castro a Corleone. Due esempi di collaborazione tra Enti pubblici e tra pubblico e privato
Conference
 Nuove scoperte archeologiche nella provincia di Palermo
Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
2018/06/26 - 2018/06/29 Poster- Mandalà G., Utrero Agudo M.A., Murillo Fragero J.I. CASTRORAO BARBA A., Miccichè, Bellettini A., Battaglia G., Aleo Nero C., Vassallo S. (June 2018), Nuove indagini archeologiche presso il complesso di San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo). Prima campagna di scavo, ottobre 2017
Conference
 International Conference “The Palace Unveiled: The Royal Palace in Palermo and other centres of power in the medieval Mediterranean”, Palermo
Assamblea Regionale Siciliana, Italy
2017/12/01 - 2017/12/03 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Cucco R.M. (December 2017), Rural settlement patterns in Western Sicily during the Late Antiquity: the territory of Palermo
Conference
 International Conferences “Change and Resiliences. The Occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity”
Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, United States
2017/11/09 - 2017/11/10 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Rotolo A., Marino M., Bazan G. (November 2017), Ecological and historical trajectories of a rural landscape (Castro/Giardinello Valley and Mt Barraù, Corleone, Palermo): Harvesting Memories project case study
Conference
 National Conference of the Società Italiana di Ecologia del Paesaggo (SIEP), L'ecologia dei paesaggi urbani, valori, rischi e adattamento nell’epoca dell’Antropocene, University of Palermo (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2017/06/26 - 2017/06/30 Grant for participation at the International workshop "Maredolce-La Favara. Un nuovo paesaggio per Brancaccio, Palermo"
Workshop
 Maredolce-La Favara. Un nuovo paesaggio per Brancaccio, Palermo
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Italy
2017/05/24 - 2017/05/28 Poster - Bertoldi S., Castiglia G., CASTRORAO BARBA A. (May 2017), Sea, rivers and roads: the Mediterranean connectivity of the Ombrone Valley and the Roman secondary settlements in Late Antique Italy
Conference
 6th International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae in the Mediterranean, LRCW6, Agrigento (Italy)
Archaeological and landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples, Italy
2017/04/18 - 2017/04/20 Poster - Gianguzzi L., CASTRORAO BARBA A., Bazan G. (April 2017), History and forest vegetation dynamics of the Favorita Park in the Palermo suburbs (NW Sicily)
Conference
 International conference “Into the Woods: overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests”, Padua University (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2017/04/18 - 2017/04/20 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Rotolo A., Marino P., Schicchi R., Bazan G. (April 2017), Making a rural landscape: ecological and human dynamics in the holm oak forest of Mt. Barraù (Corleone, Palermo, C-W Sicily)
Conference
 International conference “Into the Woods: overlapping perspectives on the history of ancient forests”, Padua University (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2016/08/23 - 2016/08/25 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Rotolo A., Marino P., Vassallo S. Bazan G. (August 2016), "Harvesting Memories ": Integrated approaches of Human Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in rural Sicily, the case of Castro Valley and Mt. Barraù (Corleone, Palermo)
Conference
 4th International Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC2016)
Uppsala universitet - Campus Gotland, Sweden
2016/05/17 - 2016/05/20 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A., Rotolo A., Marino P., Bazan G., Vassallo S. (May 2016), LiDAR derived DTM for historical landscape evaluation: the case study of the “Harvesting Memories” project (Castro Valley and Mt. Barraù, Corleone – Palermo)
Workshop
 TRAIL 2016 (Training and Research on the Archaeological Interpretation of LiDAR), Chambord, Loir-et-Cher (France).
Université de Tours, France
2014/12/04 - 2014/12/05 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A. (December 2014), Some statistics on the chronological dynamics of secondary settlements in Italy between Roman times and the Middle ages
Conference
 International Conference “Statio amoena: sostare e vivere lungo le strade romane tra antichità e alto medioevo”, Verona University (Italy).
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
2014/03/28 - 2014/03/30 Poster - Bertoldi S., Castiglia G., CASTRORAO BARBA A. (March 2014), Quantitative approaches to the study of secondary settlements in Italy: spatial relations and material culture
Conference
 24th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC), Reading University (UK).
University of Reading, United Kingdom
2013/09/23 - 2013/09/23 Scholarship granted by the University of Padova for the International Summer School "IRAAHL Detecting and interpreting Landscape transformations"
Workshop
 IRAAHL Detecting and interpreting Landscape transformations
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2013/06/17 - 2013/06/21 Scholarship granted by the École Française de Rome for the atelier doctoral "Mondes méditerranéens et Italie méridionale, pouvoirs locaux et pouvoirs centraux, VIe-XVe siècles"
Workshop
 Mondes méditerranéens et Italie méridionale, pouvoirs locaux et pouvoirs centraux, VIe-XVe siècles
École française de Rome, Italy

Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
2012/10/26 - 2012/10/28 Poster - CASTRORAO BARBA A. (October 2012), La fine delle ville romane nella Regio II e nella Regio III: dati quantitativi sui tempi e le tipologie delle trasformazioni delle ville tra III e VII sec. d. C.
Conference
 International conference “Beyond Vagnari. New themes in the study of South Italy in the Roman period”, Edinburgh University (UK).
The University of Edinburgh School of History Classics and Archaeology, United Kingdom
2003/03/20 - 2004/02/20 Scholarship granted for the Vocational Educational Training (EQF level 4–VET/IFTS) in "Expert for research, study, reconstruction, restoration of archaeological finds (Sicilian Region, Italy)". Evaluation: Approved cum laude.
Workshop
 Vocational Educational Training
Regione Sicilia, Italy

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021/04/23 - Current Sustainability (2071-1050) Mdpi
2021/04/23 - Current Remote Sensing (2072-4292) Mdpi
2021/04/23 - Current Land (2073-445X) Mdpi
2022/01/18 - 2022/02/12 Archivo Español de Arqueología (1988-3110) CSIC
2020/12/18 - 2020/12/31 Studies in Late Antiquity ( 2470-2048) University of California Press
2020/08/27 - 2020/11/27 FOLD&R: the Journal of Fasti On-Line (1828-3179) AIAC
2017/05/31 - 2017/06/30 European Journal of Archaeology (1461-9571) Cambridge University Press
2013/06/15 - 2013/09/21 ArkeoGazte. Revista de arqueología - Arkelogia aldizkaria (2174-856X) Arkeogazte

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/03/01 - Current Asociación Española de Arqueología Medieval (AEAM) Member
2021/01/12 - Current International Catacomb Society Member
2020/03/26 - Current Gruppo di Ricerca per il Mezzogiorno Medievale (GRiMM), section "Archaeology" Member
2019/01/10 - Current "The Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group" of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Member
2018/03/31 - Current Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Member
2017/10/16 - Current International Association of Landscape Archaeology (IALA) Member
2010/10/01 - Current Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani (SAMI) Member (n. 461)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022/12/01 - Current Committee member of the book series "“Cultura materiale. Paesaggio e memoria”, SPOLIA. Journal of Medieval Studies
Member
2022/02/18 - Current Member of the Interuniversitary Centre for Studies on Late Antique Housing in the Mediterranean (CISEM) Interuniversitary Centre for Studies on Late Antique Housing in the Mediterranean (CISEM), Italy
2022/01/01 - Current Associate Editor of the book-series "Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean (365-1556)", Archaeopress Archaeology (Oxford)
Other

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/03/23 - 2023/03/25 Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast (FORTMED2023) University of Pisa
2020/10/01 - 2020/10/03 Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast (FORTMED2020) Escuela de Estudios Árabes, EEA,Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Granada

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/10/01 - 2023/10/01 Lecturer in Methodology of Archaeological Research (BA3, 36 hours) at the Faculty of Classical Studies, Linguistics and Education of the Kore University of Enna Humanities - Classics (Lettere, Indirizzo Antico) (Laurea) Università degli Studi di Enna 'Kore', Italy
2023/07/23 - 2023/07/23 Lecturer (3-hours) in the course "Archeologia Pubblica: Communautè, èducation, formation, èconomie et travail-CEFEL" at the Università degli Studi di Palermo. Subject: Mediterranean Landscapes (Postgraduate Certificate) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2022/12/07 - 2022/12/07 3-hours guest-lecture in the course Historical Landscape Ecology (prof. Giuseppe Bazan) at the University of Palermo. Topic: Interdisciplinary approaches in landscape archaeology Laurea Magistrale in Archeologia - Ecologia Storica del Paesaggio (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi di Palermo Dìpartimento Culture e Socíetà, Italy
2022/09/21 - 2022/09/21 3-hours guest-lecture in the course "Archaeology of Roman Provinces (prof. Davide Tanasi) at the University of South Florida . Topics: Roman and Late Antique rural settlements patterns in Sicily (Master) University of South Florida, United States
2022/05/24 - 2022/05/24 2.5-hours lesson in the course "Christian and Medieval Archaeology" (prof. Lucia Arcifa) at the University of Catania. Topic: Between change and resilience: settlement dynamics in the countryside of late-antique, Byzantine, and Islamic western Sicily Christian and Medieval Archaeology (Laurea Specialistica) Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
2022/04/28 - 2022/04/28 1-hours lesson in the course "Medieval History" (prof. Marcin Böhm) at the University of Opole. Topic: Archaeology of rural settlement patterns in Sicily during Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic periods (5th-11th c. AD). Medieval History (Master) Uniwersytet Opolski, Poland
2022/03/04 - 2022/03/04 3-hours guest-lecture in the course Archaeology of Late Antique settlements (prof. Carla Sfameni) at the University of Bologna. Topics: The end of Roman villas between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Rural Sicily in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic periods Archaeology of Late Antique settlements (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Italy
2021/12/11 - 2021/12/11 1-hours guest-lecture in the course Topography of the Orbis christianus antiquus (prof. Philippe Pergola) at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome. Topics: Archaeology of Islamic Sicily Islamic archaeology (Master) Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy
2021/11/30 - 2021/11/30 4-hours guest-lecture in the course Late Antique Archaeology (prof. Lucrezia Spera) at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. Topics: The end of Roman villas between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Late Antique Archaeology (Laurea Magistrale) Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
2021/11/29 - 2021/11/29 5-hours guest-lecture in the course Historical Landscape Ecology (prof. Giuseppe Bazan) at the University of Palermo. Topic: Interdisciplinary approaches in historical landscape studies Historical Landscape Ecology (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi di Palermo Dìpartimento Culture e Socíetà, Italy
2021/10/15 - 2021/10/15 1-hour guest-lecture at the BA/MA short course "Byzantine Rome" (organized by prof. Joanita Vroom, Leiden University) hosted by Royal Netherlands Institute Rome (KNIR). Topic: Archaeology of Byzantine and Islamic Sicily Byzantine archaeology Reale Istituto Neerlandese di Roma, Italy
2021/03/02 - 2021/03/02 2-hours lesson in the course "Christian and Medieval Archaeology" (prof. Lucia Arcifa) at the University of Catania. Topic: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the landscape and the excavation of the early medieval site of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Christian and Medieval Archaeology (Laurea Specialistica) Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
2020/04/29 - 2020/04/29 2-hours lesson in the course "Christian and Medieval Archaeology" (prof. Lucia Arcifa) at the University of Catania. Topic: Late Roman villas and change during Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Italia, Gallia, Hispania Christian and Medieval Archaeology (Laurea) Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
2020/03/11 - 2020/03/11 2-hours lesson in the course Topography of the Orbis christianus antiquus (prof. Philip Pergola) at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome. Topics: Settlement patterns in Sicilian countryside in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamica periods (4th-11th c. AD) Late Antique and Early Christian Archaeology (Laurea Specialistica) Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy
2016/01/11 - 2016/01/11 2-hour lesson in Topography of the Orbis christianus antiquus course (prof. Philip Pergola) at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome. Topics: Re-use and transformation of the Roman Villas during 4th and 8th c. AD: Gallia, Hispania, Italy. Late Antique and Early Christian Archaeology (Laurea Specialistica) Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Italy
2010/01/09 - 2011/01/09 4 hours of classes at MA students in the Medieval Archaeology courses (prof. Marco Valenti) at University of Siena-Department of Archaeology and History of Art. Topics: The Late Roman Villas in Italy and in the Western Roman Empire (3rd-5th c. AD); The reoccupation of the Roman rural settlements during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (5th-8th c. AD). Christian and Medieval Archaeology Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2009/01/09 - 2010/01/09 4 hours of classes at MA students in the Medieval Archaeology courses (prof. Marco Valenti) at University of Siena-Department of Archaeology and History of Art. Topics: The Late Roman Villas in Italy and in the Western Roman Empire (3rd-5th c. AD); The reoccupation of the Roman rural settlements during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (5th-8th c. AD). Christian and Medieval Archaeology (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2022/10/12 Interview: The Archaeology of Islamic Sicily with Angelo Castrorao Barba. We caught up with a recent grantee of The Barakat Trust, Angelo Castrorao Barba. Angelo has undertaken some particularly fascinating research with our grant, studying excavated material from Islamic Palermo in Sicily to better understand what life was like in this multicultural setting, ruled by the Islamic Emirate of Sicily from 831 to 1071 The Barakat Trust

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2019/04/03 - 2019/04/03 Yo investigo. Yo soy CSIC Yo investigo: Angelo Castrorao - Barba (EEA)
2016/01/13 - 2016/01/13 Interview about the workshop "Archeologia tardoantica e alto-medievale in Italia (IV-X secolo) ricerche in corso" organized by Dr Angelo Castrorao Barba at KNIR in Rome Workshop "Archeologia tardoantica e alto-medievale in Italia (IV-X secolo) ricerche in corso"
2015/07/24 - 2015/07/24 TV special episode of "Polyphemus-Abbate's eye" dedicated to history, archaeology, landscape and suitable development of the Municipality of Crispiano (Taranto, Apulia). Dr Angelo Castrorao Barba was invited together the prof. Gert-Jan Burger (VU University Amsterdam) History, archaeology, landscape and suitable development of the Municipality of Crispiano

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/12/20 - Current Co-supervison of MA thesis "Medieval fortifications and castles in the territory of ancient Girgenti" (University of Bologna) Alfonso di Giacomo
2021/06/22 - 2021/07/19 Tutor of a Master internship at EEA-CSIC (Màster Univer. En Arqueologia Professional I Gestió Integral Del Patrimoni, University of Alicante)) Antonio J Rubio Simón
2019/04/04 - 2019/05/24 Director and tutor of "La Furtuna Archaeological Field School" Students from Italy, Greece, Poland and Netherlands

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/06/29 - Current Referee for book series "inFieri" "Atti del Convegno, Incontri di Archeologia Sapienza 2020" (Edizioni Quasar)
2020/06/28 - Current Referee for book series of BAR - British Archaeological Report (Oxford)
2021/02/25 - 2021/03/31 Referee for book series "Colloquio RACTA - Ricerche di Archeologia Cristiana, Tardantichità e Alto Medioevo" (Pontificio Instituto di Archeologia Cristiana, PIAC)
2017/12/21 - 2018/01/13 Referee for book series of Archaeopress Archaeology (Oxford)

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/10/31 - 2022/11/24 Scientific direction of archaeological survey and excavation in the site of the early medieval mosque of Cortijo de las Mezquitas (Campillos, Málaga) Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2022/07/18 - 2022/08/12 Scientific director of the archaeological survey (from Roman to Islamic periods) in the territory of Corleone (Palermo) Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland

Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
2022/06/29 - 2022/07/05 Scientific direction of the archaeology of architecture analysis of early medieval mosque of Cortijo de las Mezquitas (Campillos, Málaga) Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2021/10/04 - 2021/10/29 Field director of the archaeological excavation at the Norman/Islamic site of San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, Italy

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/30 Field direction of the archaeological excavation in the hilltop Byzantine/Islamic settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2020/09/03 - 2020/10/02 Field director of the archaeological excavation at the Norman/Islamic site of SanGiovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2020/06/28 - 2020/08/07 Field direction of the archaeological excavation in the hilltop Byzantine/Islamicsettlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2019/09/30 - 2019/11/01 Field director of the archaeological excavation at the Norman/Islamic site of SanGiovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2019/04/08 - 2019/05/31 Field direction of the archaeological excavation in the hilltop Byzantine/Islamicsettlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2018/03/26 - 2018/05/25 Field direction of the archaeological excavation in the hilltop Byzantine/Islamicsettlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2017/10/02 - 2017/10/30 Archaeological excavation at the Norman/Islamic site of SanGiovanni dei Lebbrosi (Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain
2017/07/17 - 2017/08/11 Preventive archaeological excavation and supervision in the historical city centre of Palermo (Via Alloro; Palazzo Scavuzzo-Trigona). Islamic and Medieval periods Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
2017/03/03 - 2017/04/27 Field direction of the archaeological excavation in the hilltop Byzantine/Islamic settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2016/08/01 - 2016/08/16 Field direction of the archaeological excavation in the late antique and early medieval settlement of Contrada Muratore (Castellana Sicula, Palermo) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
2015/04/29 - 2015/08/01 Field direction of the archaeological survey in the territory of Corleone (Palermo, Sicily) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2015/07/04 - 2015/07/22 Archaeological survey in the hinterland of Taranto (The Salento Isthmus Project). Focus on Medieval period Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013/11/22 - 2013/12/07 Field direction of the archaeological survey in the territory of Castronovo di Sicilia (Palermo, Sicily) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
2013/08/01 - 2013/10/31 Professional field archaeologist with Ardis Archaeology (Innsbruck, Austria):contract for archaeological excavations of protohistoric (Luson, Bolzano-Italy;Vipiteno, Bolzano, Italy) Ardis Archaeology, Austria
2011/08/29 - 2011/10/28 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2011/05/10 - 2011/07/28 Participation at the archaeological excavation at Vicus/Mansio of Santa Cristina inCaio (Buonconvento, Siena) (Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University ofSiena). Period: 1st-8th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2010/08/23 - 2010/10/29 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2010/05/30 - 2010/07/22 Participation at the archaeological excavation at Vicus/Mansio of Santa Cristina inCaio (Buonconvento, Siena) (Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University ofSiena). Period: 1st-8th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2009/08/24 - 2009/10/22 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2009/06/01 - 2009/07/10 Participation at the archaeological excavation at Vicus/Mansio of Santa Cristina inCaio (Buonconvento, Siena) (Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University ofSiena). Period: 1st-8th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2008/08/18 - 2008/10/31 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2007/08/06 - 2007/10/26 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2006/08/07 - 2006/10/27 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena) (Scientific direction: Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2005/08/08 - 2005/10/14 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2005/04/04 - 2005/07/22 Participation in archaeological excavation at Rocca di Staggia (Poggibonsi, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. M. Valenti, University of Siena).Period: 6th-15th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2004/08/02 - 2004/08/22 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Riccardo Francovich and Prof. M. Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2004/05/03 - 2004/05/25 Participation in archaeological excavation at Monte Riparato (Caltavuturo, Palermo) (Director Prof. Domenico Pancucci, University of Palermo). Period: 3rd c.BC-1st c. AD Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2004/03/01 - 2004/03/19 Participation at archaeological excavation at Selinunte (Castelvetrano, Trapani), late antique phases Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Trapani, Italy
2003/08/04 - 2003/08/22 Participation in archaeological excavation at Miranduolo castle (Chiusdino, Siena)(Scientific direction: Prof. Riccardo Francovich Prof. Marco Valenti, University of Siena). Period: 7th-14th c. AD. Università degli Studi di Siena Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali, Italy
2003/06/30 - 2003/07/11 Participation in geophysical prospections (georadar) at Himera (Termini Imerese, Palermo, Sicily) Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, Italy
Distinctions

Award

2021 Barakat Major Award
Barakat Trust, United Kingdom
2014 Finalist at "Ottone d'Assia Award" for the best thesis in Medieval Archaeology (2° position)
Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani (SAMI), Italy
2002 Honorable Mention - High school diploma (EQF level 4–Lyceum/Classical Studies)
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy

Title

2022 National Habilitation (ASN) as associate professor for Italian University System
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy
2021 Honoray Fellow / Teaching assistant in Historical Landscape Ecology
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2017 Qualified National Tourist Guide
Governo Italiano Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo, Italy
2016 Honoray Fellow / Teaching assistant in Landscape Ecology
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy