La docente ha tenuto un corso di Archeologia Subacquea nell'anno accademico 2016-2017 il cui syllabus è allegato nella colonna a destra. 

Nell a.a. 2017-2018, la docente terrà il Laboratorio di Archeobotanica per la Laurea Magistrale.  Consultare la bacheca per maggiori dettagli

1. Education

23rd June 2011  Ph.D. in Archaeology. Advisor: Prof. Giuliano Volpe, Università di Foggia. Italy.

2007     M.A. in Archaeology with honors (110/110 cum laude). Università del Salento-Lecce. Italy.

2004     B.A. in Archaeology with honors (110/110 cum laude). Università di Lecce. Italy.

1. Employment history

Future position

2019-21 Marie Curie fellow. Host: Prof- Jean-Fred Terrall. Equipe ‘Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie’. Institute des Science de l’Evolution - Montpellier. France. Project: ‘FABA SHAPE- Unveiling the Origins of the Faba Bean by means of Shape and Stable Carbon Isotope Analyses of Archaeological Remains’.

Current position

2016-19 Researcher. Host: Prof. Girolamo Fiorentino. Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology. Università del Salento-Lecce. Italy. Project: ‘ELIAON-Storicità dell’Olio Pugliese per la promozione di un marchio territoriale / Enhancing the History of Apulian Olive Oil to Promote a Local Brand.

Previous positions

2013-15 Post-Doctoral researcher. Advisor: Prof. Elisabetta Boaretto. Max Planck Society- Weizmann Institute Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology. Weizmann Institute, Israel.

2012     Visiting Scientist. Kimmel Centre for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science. Israel.

2011-12 Post-Doctoral researcher. Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Ceraudo. Università del Salento. Italy.

1. Institutional responsibilities

2016-19 Faculty member. Università del Salento-Lecce. Italy.

             Member of the Committee. Dipartimento di Beni Culturali. Università del Salento-Lecce. Italy.

              Member of the Board of Teaching. Dipartimento di Beni Culturali. Università del Salento-Lecce.   Italy.

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

1. Alex, Barzilai, Hershkovitz, Marder, Berna, Caracuta et al. 2017. Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals. Science Advances, 3(11), p.e1701450.
2. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/e1701450
3. Toffolo, Ulman, Caracuta, Weiner, Boaretto. 2017. A 10,400-year-old sunken lime kiln from the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B at the Nesher-Ramla quarry (el-Khirbe), Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14:353-364. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X17301992
4. Caracuta Vardi, Paz, Boaretto. 2017. Farming Legumes in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic: New Discoveries from the Site of Ahihud (Israel). PLoS One 12(5): e0177859 1-28. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177859

1. Caracuta, Weinstein-Evron, Kaufman, Yeshurun, Silvent, Boaretto 2016. 14,000-years-old seeds indicate the Levantine origin of the lost progenitor of faba bean. Scientific Reports 6: 37399-37405. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37399
2. Caracuta, Weinstein-Evron, Yeshurun, Kaufman, Tsatskin, Boaretto 2016. Charred wood remains in the Natufian sequence of el-Wad terrace (Israel): New insights into the climatic, environmental and cultural changes at the end of the Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Review 131: 20-32 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379115301554
3. Yaroshevich, Bar-Yosef, Boaretto, Caracuta, Greenbaum, Porat, Roskin 2016.  A unique assemblage of engraved plaquettes from Ein Qashish South, Jezree Valley, Israel. Figurative and non-figurative symbols of late Pleistocene hunters-gathers in the Levant. PLoS One 1(8): e0160687.

1. Caracuta, Barzilai, Khalaily, Milevski, Paz, Vardi, Regev, Boaretto 2015. The onset of faba bean farming in the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports 5: 14370-75. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14370
2. Hershkovitz, Marder, Ayalon, Bar-Matthews, Yasur, Boaretto, Caracuta, Alex, Frumkin, Goder-Goldberger, Gunz, Holloway, Latimer, Lavi, Matthews, Slon, Bar-Yosef Mayer, Berna, Bar-Oz, Yeshurun, May, Hans, Weber, Barzilai. 2015. Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans. Nature 520: 216-219.

1. Caracuta, Fiorentino, Turchiano, Volpe 2014. Dating historical contexts: issues, plant material and methods to date the late roman site of Faragola, Apulia (S-E Italy). Radiocarbon 56: 679-690. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/div-classtitledating-historical-contexts-issues-plant-material-and-methods-to-date-the-late-roman-site-of-faragola-apulia-se-italydiv/240B90F42592DF7B5DD14B1B8E42326A
2. Lancelotti, Caracuta[1], Fiorentino, Madella, Ajithprasad 2013. Holocene Monsoon Dynamics and Human Occupation in Gujarat: Stable Isotopes Analyses on Plant Remains. Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 1: 288-300. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carla_Lancelotti/publication/270048682_Holocene_Monsoon_Dynamics_and_Human_Occupation_in_Gujarat_Stable_Isotopes_Analyses_on_Plant_Remains/links/54ad3dbe0cf2828b29fba7aa.pdf

1. Fiorentino, Caracuta, Casiello, Longobardi, Sacco 2012. Studying ancient crop provenance: implications from δ13C and δ15N values of charred barley in a Middle Bronze Age silo at Ebla (NW Syria). Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry 26: 327-335.

1. Caracuta, Fiorentino, Martinelli 2012. Plant remains and AMS: dating climate change in the Aeolian Islands (northeastern Sicily) during the 2nd millennium BC. Radiocarbon 54: 689-700. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/plant-remains-and-ams-dating-climate-change-in-the-aeolian-islands-northeastern-sicily-during-the-2nd-millennium-bc/23F1026AC3E2EB8A84D21AC390A692FC
2. Caracuta, Fiorentino, Turchiano, Volpe 2012. Processi di formazione di due discariche altomedievali nel sito di Faragola. Il contributo dell' analisi archeobotanica. Post-Classical Archaeology (PCA) 2: 225-246. http://www.postclassical.it/PCA_vol.2_files/PCA2_CARACUTA%20ET%20ALII.pdf
3. Caracuta 2011. Ambiente naturale e strategie agroalimentari in Puglia settentrionale tra Tardoantico ed Altomedioevo: indagini archeoambientali e analisi del δ13C sui resti vegetali di Faragola (FG). Post-Classical Archaeology (PCA) 1: 275-295. http://www.postclassical.it/PCA_Vol.1_files/PCA1%20Caracuta.pdf
4. Roberts, Eastwood, Kuzucuoğlu, Fiorentino, Caracuta 2011. Climatic, vegetation and cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean during the mid-Holocene environmental transition. The Holocene 2: 147-162. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959683610386819
5. Fiorentino, Caracuta, Volpe, Turchiano, Quarta, D’Elia, Calcagnile 2010 The First millennium AD climate fluctuations in the Tavoliere Plain (Apulia –Italy): new data from the 14C AMS-dated plant remains from the archaeological site of Faragola. Nuclear Instrument and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, 268(7-8), 1084-1087. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168583X09011537

1. Fiorentino, Caracuta[2], Calcagnile, D'Elia, Matthiae, Mavelli, Quarta 2008. Third millennium B.C. climate change in Syria highlighted by carbon stable isotope analysis of 14C-AMS dated plant remains from Ebla. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 266 (1-2): 51-58.

Articles in non-peer-reviewed journals

1. Borrell, Boaretto, Caracuta[3], Cohen-Sasson, Lavi, Lupu, Teira, Vardi 2016. Nahal Efe. A multiperiod prehistoric site in the northeastern Negev. Antiquity 352: online project https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/borrell352
2. Borrell, Boaretto, Caracuta[4], Cohen-Sasson, Lavi, Lupu, Teira, Vardi 2015 Nahal Efe A Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site in the North-eastern Negev Preliminary Results of the 2015 Pilot Season. Neo-lithics 15(2): 33-41. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303810973_Nahal_Efe_A_Middle_Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_B_site_in_the_north-eastern_Negev_Preliminary_results_of_the_2015_pilot_season
3. Yaroshevich, Agha, Boaretto, Brailovsky, Caracuta[5], Greenbaum, Kirzner, Oshri, Porat, Roskin, Shukrun, Spivak, Zutovsky, Barzilai 2014. Investigating pre-agricultural dynamics in the Levant: a new stratified epipaleolithic site at Ein Qashish South, Jezreel Valley, Israel. Antiquity 342: online project. http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/yaroshevich342
4. Caracuta Weiss, van den Brink, Liran, Vardi, Barzilai 2014. From Natural Environment to Human Landscape: New Archaeobotanical Data from the Neolithic Site of Nahal Zippori 3, Lower Galilee. Neo-lithics 14(1): 33-41.

1. Marder, Alex, Ayalon, Bar-Matthews, Bar-Oz, Bar-Yosef Mayer, Berna, Boaretto, Caracuta[6], Frumkin, Goder-Goldberger, Hershkovitz, Latimer, Lavi, Matthews, Weiner, Weiss, Yas'ur, Yeshurun, Omry Barzilai 2013 The Upper Palaeolithic of Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel: the 2011–12 excavations. Antiquity 337: online project. http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/marder337/

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

1. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2018. Plant Rituals and Fuel in Roman Cemeteries of Apulia (SE Italy). In: Livarda, Madgwick, Riero-Mora (eds.) The Bioarchaeology of Ritual and Religion. Oxbow, Oxford, 58-68.

1. Fiorentino, Primavera, Caracuta 2014. Archaeological Investigations at Mersin-Yumuktepe: Food Habits from Neolithic to Medieval Ages. In: L. Milano, F. Bertoldi (eds.) Paleonutrition and Food Practices in the Ancient Near East. International Meeting Methods and perspectives applied to the study of food practices in the Ancient Near East. June 2006, Venice. SARGON, Padova, 85-94.

1. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2014. Garbage disposal in the Middle Bronze Age in Tell Mardikh-Ebla (NW Syria): using plant remains to investigate midden formation processes. In: Baffi, Fiorentino, Peyronel. (eds.) Tell Tuqan excavations and regional perspectives. Cultural developments in inner Syria from the Early Bronze Age to the Persian/Hellenistic period. Proceedings of the International Conference May 15th -17th  2013 – Lecce. Congedo Editore, Foggia, 485-507.

1. Fiorentino, Caracuta 2013. Use of Wood and Environment in Bronze Age Ebla (NW) Syria: results of the anthracological analysis. In: Damblon (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of Anthracology (IMA). 8th-13th September 2008, Brussel. BAR International Series 2486, 93-102. https://www.academia.edu/3661801/USE_OF_WOOD_AND_ENVIRONMENT_IN_BRONZE_AGE_EBLA_NW_SYRIA_RESULTS_OF_THE_ANTHRACOLOGICAL_ANALYSES

1. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2012. Wood   for   fuel   in  roman   hypocaust   baths :  new   data   from the  Late-  Roman  villa   of Faragola  (S-E  Italy).  In: Badal (ed.) Wood  and  charcoal.  Evidence  for  human  and  natural  history. Proceedings of the 5th  International Meeting  of Charcoal Analysis, 5th-9th September 2011. SAGVNTVM Extra 13, 199-208. https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/saguntumextra/article/download/1611/985
2. Fiorentino, Caracuta 2012. Palaeoprecipitation trends and cultural changes in Syrian protohistoric communites: the contribution of δ13C in ancient and modern vegetation. In: Kneisel, Kirleis, Del Corso, Taylor (eds.) Collapse or Continuity? Environment and Development of Bronze Age Human Landscapes. Proceedings of the International Workshop ‘Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the last 12,000 years. The Creation of the Landscapes II, 14th-18th March 2011, Kiel. Halbet GmbH, Bonn, 17-34. https://www.academia.edu/3108677/Paleoprecipitation_Trends_and_Cultural_Changes_in_Syrian_Protohistoric_Communities_the_contribution_of_delta13C_in_Ancient_and_Modern_Vegetation
3. Fiorentino, Caracuta 2012. The use of plants in a ritual well at Ebla (Tell Mardikh)- North-western Syria. In: Matthiae, Pinnock, Nigro, Marchetti (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th ICAANE conference 5th-10th May 2009, Rome.  Harrassowitz, Wisbaden, 307-320.
4. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2009. L’analisi archeobotanica nell’insediamento di Faragola (FG): il paesaggio vegetale tra spinte antropiche e caratteristiche ambientali, tra tardoantico e altomedioevo. In: Volpe, Favia (eds.): Atti del V Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale (V SAMI).30th September-3rd October 2009, Foggia. All’insegna del Giglio, Firenze, 717-726.

1. Giuliani, Caracuta[7], Fiorentino, Pignatelli 2009. Prime ricerche nella torre medievale di Pietramontecorvino (FG): un approccio integrato tra esame archeologico delle architetture e analisi paleoecologiche. In: Volpe, Favia (eds.) Atti del V Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale (V SAMI). 30th September-3rd October 2009, Foggia All’insegna del Giglio, Firenze, 779-784.

Contributions to peer reviewed books

1. Fiorentino, Caracuta 2015. AMS 14C-dated plants as a tool for investigating palaeoeclimate: new data for analysing social complexity in Ebla and Qatna (North-western Syria) in the light of 3rd millennium BC Climate change. In: Kerner, Dann, Bansgaard (ed.) Climate and Ancient Societies. Museum Tusculanum Press, 313-334.
2. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2014. Forests near and far: an anthracological perspective on Ebla. In:  Matthiae, Marchetti (eds.) Ebla and its landscape. Early state formation in the ancient Near East. Left Coast Press, 403-4012.
3. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2014. Riti funerari e paesaggio vegetale nel territorio di Ausculum: il contributo dell'analisi archeobotanica per lo studio della necropoli di via Giuseppe Ciotta. In: Corrente (ed.) Lo spreco necessario. Il lusso nelle tombe di Ascoli Satriano, 160-164. Foggia: Claudio Grenzi Editore. Caracuta, Fiorentino 2014. Ambiente e strategie produttive nei siti di San lorenzo in Carminiano e Pantano (FG) tra XIII e XIV secolo. In: Favia,  Houben, Tomaspooeg (eds.) Federico II e i Cavalieri Teutonici in Capitanata. Recenti ricerche storiche e archeologiche,. Galatina: Congedo Editore 317-332. 

1. Fiorentino, Caracuta 2008. Palaeoclimatic implications inferred from Carbon stable isotope analysis of Qatna -Tell Mishrifeh archaeological plant remains. In: Morandi Bonacossi (ed.) Urban and Natural Landscapes of an Ancient Syrian Capital. Settlement and Environment at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna and in Central-Western Syria. Studi archeologici su Qatna 1. Udine: Forum, 153-160.