Gabriele Gattiglia

Università di Pisa | UNIPI · Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge

Pottery is of fundamental importance for understanding archaeological contexts. However, recognition of ceramics is still a manual, time-consuming activity, reliant on analogue catalogues created by specialists, held in archives and libraries. The ArchAIDE project worked to streamline, optimise, and economise the mundane aspects of these processes,...

In the last ten years, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied in archaeology. The ArchAIDE project realised an AI-based application to recognise archaeological pottery. Pottery is of paramount importance for understanding archaeological contexts. However, recognition of ceramics is still a manual, time-consuming activity, reliant...

The storage of archaeological data in, and their retrieval from, relational databases are by now essential components of archaeological research. Given the growing accessibility of statistical techniques and the ease with which they can be applied, databases have greatly increased the possibility for the archaeologists to implement complex quantita...

Intellectual property is generally regarded in human sciences as the right by whoever has produced data to become the owner of them and use them exclusively for years, sometimes for decades (at times dispersing them without permitting anyone else to view them). This practice is based on an incorrect interpretation of the principle of intellectual p...

Usually defined as high volume, high velocity, and/or high variety data, Big Data permit us to learn things that we could not comprehend using smaller amounts of data, thanks to the empowerment provided by software, hardware and algorithms. This requires a novel archaeological approach: to use a lot of data; to accept messiness; to move from causat...

L'archeologo del XXI secolo non vive più di solo studio e scavo. Oggi la moderna ricerca impone di affiancare al lavoro in cantiere e ai libri in biblioteca modi sempre nuovi di indagare, comunicare e gestire l'antico. Bastano un po' di fantasia, versatilità e intraprendenza per dare vita, da archeologo, alle attività più disparate. Come hanno fatt...

This volume represents the third edition of a work cycle that started in 2006 for my PhD thesis. The thesis was presented in 2010 (first edition, GATTIGLIA 2010), partially published as a summary monograph in 2011 (second edition, GATTIGLIA 2011) or in articles (GATTIGLIA 2012, GATTIGLIA 2012a, GATTIGLIA G. 2011a), and now (third edition) takes the...

The Department of Archaeological Science of Pisa University is undertaking the MAPPA project in which archaeologists, geologists, mathematicians study predictive modelling tools applied to the archaeological potential of an urban area. Since the archaeological potential represents the probability that a more or less significant archaeological strat...

We present the analysis of multi-faceted, GIS managed data for determining the archaeological potential, i.e. a measure of the possibility that a more or less significant archaeological stratification is preserved. We used a sizable number of datasets, in order to consider the problem of estimation of archaeological potential in all of its aspects:...

We will present the results obtained by the analysis of multi-faceted, diachronic, GIS managed data for determining the archaeological potential of the urban area of Pisa. This work is conducted on behalf of the MAPPA project (www.mappaproject.org), a multidisciplinary research project investigating predictive modelling tools applied to the archaeo...

The archaeological excavarion of the castle of Montecastrese is a good starting point for the study of the Versilia region between the 7th and the beginning of the 16th century. The Versilia region in the Middle Ages coincides with the territory defined in the agreement signed in 1219 between the lords of Vallecchia and Corvaia and placed between t...

The main use of GIS in archaeology is connected to regional research or management of excavation data sets. The use of GIS for urban archaeological research is far less extensive. The urban GIS about the medieval town of Pisa contains all archaeological data from occasional findings to modern stratigraphic excavations, geographical data, historical...

In recent years, speaking about open data has become highly fashionable (rather less in archaeology): everybody mentions them, some want them, nobody puts them online! In the field of archaeology, primary or raw data are the archaeographic data, duly located in a geographical space. It is essential for these data to be reliable, promptly available,...

""The fruitful cooperation over the years between the university teaching staff of Pisa University, the officials of the Superintendency for Archaeological Heritage of Tuscany, the officials of the Superintendency for Architectural, Landscape and Ethno‐anthropological Heritage for the Provinces of Pisa and Livorno, and the Municipality of Pisa has...

This initial online publication is an extract from the project forms submitted to Regione Toscana under the PAR FAS Regione Toscana Action Line 1.1.a.3. call. It has been partially reviewed and adapted for a less technical reading. We believe that it is important to publish the project extract in order to provide details on the project objectives,...

Il volume, attraverso l'analisi dei dati archeologici, ricostruisce le trasformazioni della città a partire dall'Altomedieoevo, quando pisa si contra e della città romana non rimangono che resti abbandonati; racconta la presenza longobarda e la precoce ripartenza economica tra IX e X secolo, favorita da una fitta rete di porti marittimi e fluviali...

After defining the area of investigation, the methods used for acquiring new data will be described. The archaeologists will address the problems encountered with the archives and the status oof documentation, the sedimentologists will identify the area for continuous coring, whilst the geomorphologists will base their analyses on micro-relief, pho...

An archaeological excavation has been carried out at Pisa (Italy), unearthing an ancient metallurgical workshop. Since archaeological burnt materials provide important records of direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic field in the past and they can be used to better improve geomagnetic secular variation curves (SVCs), an archaeomagnetic st...