Publications
Romboni M., Arienzo I., Antonio Di Vito M., Lubritto C., Piochi M., Di Cicco M. R., Rickards O., Rolfo M. F., Sevink J., De Angelis F., Alessandri L., Isotopic evidence for population dynamics in the Central Italian Copper Age and Bronze Age, bioRxiv, 2021.09.30.462554; doi: 10.1101/2021.09.30.462554
Alessandri L., Cardello G. L., Attema P.A.J., Baiocchi V., De Angelis F., Del Pizzo S., Di Ciaccio F., Fiorillo A., Gatta M., Monti F., Onori M., Rolfo M. F. , Romboni M., Sottili G., Troisi S., Reconstructing the Late Pleistocene – Anthropocene interaction between the neotectonic and archaeological landscape evolution in the Apennines (La Sassa cave, Italy), Quaternary Science Review, 265, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107067
Saupe T., Montinaro F., Scaggion C., Carrara N., Kivisild T., D’Atanasio E., Hui R., Solnik A., Lebrasseur O., Larson G., Alessandri L., Arienzo I., De Angelis F., Rolfo M.F., Skeates R., Silvestri L., Beckett J., Talamo S., Dolfini A., Miari M., Metspalu M., Benazzi S., Capelli C., Pagani L., Scheib C.L., Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula, Current Biology, 2021, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.022
Sevink, J., Bakels, C.C., van Hall, R.L., Dee, M.W. 2021, Radiocarbon dating distaltephra from the Early Bronze Age Avellino eruption (EU-5) in the coastal basins of southern Lazio (Italy):Uncertainties, results, and implications for dating distal tephra, Quaternary Geochronology, doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101154
Sevink J. 2020, Burnt clay or terra bruciata in coastal basins of Southern Lazio, Italy: Evidence for prehistoric ignicoltura or resulting from drainage of Holocene pyritic sediments?, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 32, doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102432
Van Gorp W., Sevink J., van Leusen P. M. 2020, Post-depositional subsidence of the Avellino tephra marker bed in the Pontine plain (Lazio, Italy): Implications for Early Bronze Age palaeogeographical, water level and relative sea level reconstruction, Catena, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2020.104770
Sevink J., van Gorp W., Di Vito A., Arienzo I. 2020, Distal tephra from Campanian eruptions in early Late Holocene fills of the Agro Pontino graben and Fondi basin (Southern Lazio, Italy), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107041
Alessandri L., Baiocchi V., Del Pizzo S., Di Ciaccio F., Onori M., Rolfo M. F., Troisi S. 2020, The fusion of external and internal 3d photogrammetric models as a tool to investigate the ancient human/cave interaction: the La Sassa case study, International Archive of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2, 1443-1450, doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-1443-2020
Alessandri L., Baiocchi V., Del Pizzo S., Di Ciaccio F., Onori M., Rolfo M. F., Troisi S. 2020, A flexible and swift approach for 3D image–based survey in a cave, Applied Geomatics (2020), doi: 10.1007/s12518-020-00309-4
Alessandri L., Achino K., Attema A., De Novaes Nascimento, Gatta M., Rolfo M. F., Sevink J., Sottili G., Van Gorp W. 2019, Salt or Fish (or salted fish)? The Bronze Age specialised sites along the Tyrrhenian coast of central Italy: new insights from Caprolace settlement, PLoS ONE, 14(11), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224435
Attema P., Alessandri L., Bakels C., Doorenbosch M., Field M., Van Gorp W., De Haas T., Van Leusen M., Tol G., Sevink J. 2019, Vecchie e nuove ricerche multidisciplinari nel territorio di Sezze e nelle zone adiacenti (Agro Pontino, Lazio), IpoTESI di Preistoria, 11, 103-118, doi: 10.6092/issn.1974-7985/9902
Alessandri L., Baiocchi V., Del Pizzo S., Rolfo M. F., Troisi S., 2019, Photogrammetric survey with fisheye lens for the characterization of the La Sassa Cave, 8th International Workshop 3D-ARCH, 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures, Bergamo (Italy) 6-8 February 2019, International Archive of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-2/W9, 25-32, doi: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W9-25-2019
Alessandri L., 2018, The early and Middle Bronze Age (1/2) in South and central Tyrrhenian Italy and their connections with the Avellino eruption: An overview, Quaternary International, 499B, 161-185, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.08.002
Romboni M., De Angelis F., Cortese F., Romano E., Rolfo M. F., Rickards O., Alessandri L. 2018, Diet, lifestyle and disease in a Copper Age community from La Sassa cave (Italy), XXI Congress of The European Anthropological Association, Odense (Denmark) August 2018, Best Poster Award
Doorenbosch M., Field M. H. 2018, A Bronze Age palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from the Fondi basin, southern Lazio, central Italy, Quaternary International, 499B, 221-230, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.022
Van Gorp W., Sevink J. 2018, Distal deposits of the Avellino eruption as a marker for the detailed reconstruction of the Early Bronze Age depositional environment in the Agro Pontino and Fondi Basin (Lazio, Italy), Quaternary International, 499B, 245-257, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.017
Romboni M., De Angelis F., Cortese F., Romano E., Pandolfi L., Rolfo M. F., Rickards O., Alessandri L. 2018, Life, death and pathogens: a morphological and molecular study about “La Sassa” cave (LT) Copper/Bronze Age community, X Congress of Associazione Italiana di Archeometria, Torino (Italy) February 2018, poster
Van Gorp W., Alessandri L., Doorenbosch M., 2017, De kustbekkens van Zuid-Lazio in de Vroege Bronstijd ten tijde van de Avellino-eruptie (Somma-Vesuvius): een welkome plek of een vijandige omgeving?, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, 57, 10-16 (pdf)
Alessandri L., Rolfo M. F., 2017, Caprolace and La Sassa excavations. New insight into the Bronze Age of South Latium, Annual Central Mediterranean prehistory seminar, Durham (England), May 2017, poster (pdf)
Doorenbosch M., Field M. H., 2017, A Bronze Age palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from the Fondi Basin, Lazio, central Italy, Mediterranean Palynology Symposium, Barcellona, September 2017, poster (pdf)
Alessandri L., Rolfo M. F., 2017, Campagna 2017, Speleologia e Archeologia a Sonnino, Sonnino 14.1.2017, public conference (pdf)
Alessandri, L., Rolfo, M. F., 2016, L’utilizzo delle cavità naturali nella media età del Bronzo: nuovi dati dal Lazio meridionale, Bollettino Unione Storia e Arte, 10, 109–126 (pdf)
Alessandri L., Attema P. A. J., Doorenbosch M., Field M. H., Sevink J., Van Gorp W., Van Leusen M. P., The Avellino event: did a major volcanic eruption lead to mass migration in the Pontine Plain and Fondi basin during the Bronze Age?, Congress of European Association of Archaeologists, Vilnius (Lithuania) September 2016, poster (pdf)
Alessandri L., Attema P. A. J., Doorenbosch M., Field M. H., Sevink J., Van Gorp W., Van Leusen M. P., The Avellino event: did a major volcanic eruption lead to mass migration in the Pontine Plain and Fondi basin during the Bronze Age?, Landscape Archaeology Conference, Uppsala (sweden) August 2016 (pdf)
Alessandri L., Rolfo M. F., La Sassa cave (Sonnino, Italy), 7th Conference of Italian Archaeology, Galway (Ireland) April 2016, poster (pdf)
Alessandri L. 2016, Vivere e morire 4000 anni fa: la Grotta La Sassa a Sonnino, Speleologia e Archeologia a Sonnino, Sonnino 23.1.2016, public conference (pdf)
Doorenbosch M., Field M. H., Alessandri L., Attema P. A. J., Bakels C. C., Van Gorp W., Van Leusen M. P., Sevink J. 2015, The Avellino event: distal palaeoecological impacts of the great Bronze Age eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Mediterranean Palynology Symposium, Rome, September 2015, poster (pdf)
Attema P., Van Leusen M., Field M., Alessandri L., Doorenbosch M., Van Gorp W. 2015, The Avellino Event: cultural and demographic effects of the great bronze age eruption of mount Vesuvius, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, 54, 56 (pdf)
Bakels. C., Sevink J., Kuijper W., Kamermans H. 2015, The Agro Pontino region, refuge after the Early Bronze Age Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Italy? Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, 45, 55-68
Master thesis
Cortese F., 2018, Nuovi dati sull’alimentazione delle comunità protostoriche tra IV e III millennio a.C. in Italia centrale, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Merenda J. 2019, L’analisi archeozoologica dei livelli olocenici di Grotta La Sassa: campagne di scavo 2015-2018, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Bachelor thesis
Martino R., 2017, Ursus arctos (ursidae, mammalia) from the latest Pleistocene of Grotta la Sassa (Latina, Central Italy), Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Fiorillo A., 2017, Il rapporto uomo-orso nelle grotte italiane del tardo Pleistocene, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Merella M., 2017, Canis (canidae, mammalia) from the Holocene deposits of Grotta la Sassa (Latina, Central Italy) , Università di Roma Tor Vergata
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