Dr. Giacomo Capuzzo

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.