PhD in Technologies for Cultural Heritage - since XXXVI Cycle

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Selected research products

Demarchi B, Hall S, Roncal-Herrero T, Freeman CL, Woolley J, Crisp MK, Wilson J, Fotakis A, Fischer R, Kessler BM, Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen R, Olsen JV, Haile J, Thomas J, Marean CW, Parkington J, Presslee S, Lee-Thorp J, Ditchfield P, Hamilton JF, Ward MW, Wang CM, Shaw MD, Harrison T, Dominguez-Rodrigo M, MacPhee R, Kwekason A, Ecker M, Kolska Horwitz L, Chazan M, Kroger R, Thomas-Oates J, Harding JH, Cappellini E, Penkman K, Collins MJ. (2016) Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time. eLife 5 [DOI  PMID]

High K, Milner N, Panter I, Demarchi B, Penkman KE. (2016) Lessons from Star Carr on the vulnerability of organic archaeological remains to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(46) 12957-12962 [DOI  PMID]

Solazzo C, Courel B, Connan J, van Dongen BE, Barden H, Penkman K, Taylor S, Demarchi B, Adam P, Schaeffer P, Nissenbaum A, Bar-Yosef O, Buckley M. (2016) Identification of the earliest collagen- and plant-based coatings from Neolithic artefacts (Nahal Hemar cave, Israel). Scientific reports 6 31053 [DOI  PMID]

Kim YY, Carloni JD, Demarchi B, Sparks D, Reid DG, Kunitake ME, Tang CC, Duer MJ, Freeman CL, Pokroy B, Penkman K, Harding JH, Estroff LA, Baker SP, Meldrum FC. (2016) Tuning hardness in calcite by incorporation of amino acids. Nature materials 15(8) 903-10 [DOI  PMID]

Bosch MD, Mannino MA, Prendergast AL, O'Connell TC, Demarchi B, Taylor SM, Niven L, van der Plicht J, Hublin JJ. (2015) New chronology for Ksar 'Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112(25) 7683-8 [DOI  PMID]

Demarchi B, O'Connor S, de Lima Ponzoni A, de Almeida Rocha Ponzoni R, Sheridan A, Penkman K, Hancock Y, Wilson J. (2014) An integrated approach to the taxonomic identification of prehistoric shell ornaments. PloS one 9(6) e99839 [DOI  PMID]

Demarchi B, Collins M, Bergstrom E, Dowle A, Penkman K, Thomas-Oates J, Wilson J. (2013) New experimental evidence for in-chain amino acid racemization of serine in a model peptide. Analytical chemistry 85(12) 5835-42 [DOI  PMID]

Demarchi B, Williams MG, Milner N, Russell N, Bailey G, Penkman K. (2011) Amino acid racemization dating of marine shells: A mound of possibilities. Quaternary international : the journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research 239(1-2) 114-124 [DOI  PMID]

Courses

• Archeologia delle interazioni tra comunità umane e ambiente (STS0492)
  Corso di laurea in Beni Culturali
• Bioarcheologia (SVB0175)
  Scienze Naturali, Scienze dei Sistemi Naturali,
  Evoluzione del comportamento animale e dell’uomo
• Laboratorio di analisi paleomolecolari (SVB0256)
  Laurea magistrale in Biologia dell'Ambiente
• Museomica (SVB0273)
  Scienze Naturali, Scienze dei Sistemi Naturali,
  Evoluzione del comportamento animale e dell’uomo

PhD Tech for Culture

Research topics

https://archaeobiomics.com/

Research projects

• The evolution of dietary diversity and the transition to agriculture in Europe
• PRIN 2022 - COD. 2022ELZECR - MALTHUS. Rise and fall cycles of Bronze age populations in Northern Italy
• HERDS. Animal Husbandry and its Economic Role in the Development of Central Mediterranean Protohistoric Societies
• Developing a high-resolution framework to define human-environment interactions across the Middle-to-Later Stone Age transition at Boomplaas Cave
• Two Millennia of African Farmscapes, Food Production and Consumption in Northeastern South Africa (short title: South African Farmscapes & Food)
• Birds as a key line of evidence for human vulnerability and resilience to environmental shifts in a pre-agricultural context
• AIRLOOM: A novel bioarchaeological approach to ancient textile manufacture

All my research projects

Activities in agenda

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Academic bodies

• Commissione Internazionalizzazione
• Consiglio di Dipartimento

• Biologia dell'Ambiente - Commissione Riconoscimento Titoli Esteri

Office hours

Su appuntamento previo contatto email. Ufficio in Via Accademia Albertina 13.