Dr. Giacomo Capuzzo

CRUMBEL, MOLA

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Bagolini Laboratoy: Archaeology Archaeometry Photography (LaBAAF), Department of Humanities, University of Trento (Italy), where I am the PI of the “Mobility and Life histories in the Alps – Understanding prehistoric social strategies in mountain environment” MOLA project. Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Belgian EOS CRUMBEL project “Cremations, Urns and Mobility. Ancient Population Dynamics in Belgium” at the Université libre de Bruxelles. I undertook my Undergraduate degree and Master in Italy, at the University of Padova, where I focused on the North Italian Protohistory. Afterwards, I worked on my PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Juan Antonio Barceló at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) “Space-Temporal analysis of radiocarbon evidence and associated archaeological record: from Danube to Ebro Rivers and from Bronze to Iron ages”, period in which I am specialized.

The main topic of my research is the use of radiocarbon dates and Sr-O-S isotopes to reconstruct the behaviour of past societies, providing thus information about phenomena like the adoption and spread of innovations, human mobility processes, socio-cultural changes, and demographic fluctuations at a European and regional scale.

As an archaeologist, I participated in excavations in Italy, Spain and Israel and spent research periods at the Department of Prehistory of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna (Austria) and the D-REAMS Radiocarbon Laboratory, Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel.

Background

B.A. degree in Archaeology, 2006, University of Padova, Italy.
M.A. degree in Pre- Protohistoric Archaeology, 2009, University of Padova, Italy.
Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology (archaeological sciences), 2014, Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Postdoctoral external collaborator, 2015-2017, Quantitative Archaeology Lab, Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2023, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Key Research Interests

Archaeology
Radiocarbon dating
Strontium, oxygen, and sulfur isotopes for palaeomobility
Geostatistical and chronological modelling
Inhumation and cremation practices in pre- protohistoric Europe
Palaeodemography and human-environment interactions in pre- protohistoric Europe

Main Publications

Capuzzo G, De Mulder G, Sabaux C, Dalle S, Boudin M, Annaert R, Hlad M, Salesse K, Stamataki E, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Snoeck C, Vercauteren M. 2023. Final Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary practices and population dynamics in Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating cremated bones. Radiocarbon 65(1):51-80.
Dalle S, Capuzzo G, Hlad M, Veselka B, Annaert R, Boudin M, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Vercauteren M, Warmenbol E, Snoeck C, De Mulder G. 2023. Hidden transitions. New insights into changing social dynamics between the Bronze and Iron Age in the cemetery of Destelbergen (Belgium). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49:103979.
Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. 2022. Cremation burials in central and southwestern Europe: quantifying an adoption of innovation in the 2nd millennium BC. Anthropologica et Præhistorica 131/2020:113-160.
Capuzzo G, Snoeck C, Boudin M, Dalle S, Annaert R, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G, Tys D, Vercauteren M. 2020. Cremation vs. inhumation: modeling cultural changes in funerary practices from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages in Belgium using Kernel Density Analysis on ¹⁴C data. Radiocarbon 62(6):1809-1832.
Mazzucco N, Ibáñez JJ, Capuzzo G, Gassin B, Mineo M, Gibaja J. 2020. Migration, adaptation, innovation: the spread of the Neolithic harvesting technologies in the Mediterranean. PLOS ONE 15(4):e0232455.
Capuzzo G, Zanon M, Dal Corso M, Wiebke K, Barceló JA. 2018. Highly diverse Bronze Age population dynamics in central-southern Europe and their response to regional climatic patterns. PLOS ONE 13(8):e0200709.
Capuzzo G, Achino KF. 2017. Marcadores culturales en la Península Ibérica durante la edad del Bronce: revisión y análisis de las asas de apéndice de botón. In: Barceló JA, Bogdanovic I, Morell B, editors. Iber-Crono 2016. Cronometrías Para la Historia de la Península Ibérica (Chronometry for the History of the Iberian Peninsula), Barcelona (Spain), 17-19 October 2016. p 172-191.
Capuzzo G, López Cachero FJ. 2017. De la inhumación a la cremación en el nordeste peninsular: cronología y sociedad. In: Barceló JA, Bogdanovic I, Morell B, editors. Iber-Crono 2016. Cronometrías Para la Historia de la Península Ibérica (Chronometry for the History of the Iberian Peninsula), Barcelona (Spain), 17-19 October 2016. p 192-208.
Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. 2015. Cultural changes in the 2nd millennium BC: a Bayesian examination of radiocarbon evidence from Switzerland and Catalonia. World Archaeology 47 (4) Special Issue: Bayesian approaches to Prehistoric Chronologies:622-641.
Capuzzo G, Boaretto E, Barceló JA. 2014. EUBAR: a database of ¹⁴C measurements for the European Bronze Age. A Bayesian analysis of ¹⁴C-dated archaeological contexts from Northern Italy and Southern France. Radiocarbon 56 (2):851-869.

giacomo.capuzzo@ulb.be