Bridging the Scales: Model-driven Integrative Interpretation of Archaeological and Geophysical Data

Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R.411
corradini@geophysik.uni-kiel.de 

Subproject G2: Geophysical prospecting, classification and validation of settlement remains in changing environments

PhD poject

The task of the project is the quantitative comparison between geophysical measurements and archaeological excavations using different methods. Measurements of soil parameters on an open excavation would provide a basis from a qualitative comparison of geophysical and excavated features to a quantitative validation and calibration of geophysical models. Furthermore, spatially highly resolved corings and excavations data have a different spatial scale than geophyiscal data usually have. Merging these scales is another major task for this work. 

I will incorporate the stratigraphic information from corings and excavations in the geophysical computations (in particular Geoelectrics and Ground Penetrating Radar) as a mathematical constraints, and combine the two methods in a more comprehensive way.

This approach could be important for future geoarchaeological studies  for a more comprehensive stratigraphic characterization of the shallow subsurface.

CRC 1266 Interlinking group

Human-Environmental Interaction
 

Research interests 

Geophysics, Archaeology, Archeogeophysics, Geoarchaeology, Petrography, Petrophysics
 

Education

2013 - 2015
Master Degree of Archaeology (Ferrara University, Italy)
Thesis: geophysical investigation of the Terramara site in Pilastri di Bondeno, Ferrara, Italy.

2010 - 2013 
Bachelor Degree of Science for Cultural and Natural Heritage (Modena and Reggio Emila University, Italy)
Thesis: petrographic study of Bronze Age pottery from the circum-Thyrrenian sites in Calabria and Sicily (Italy).
 

Work experience

2014 - 2016
Collaboration at the Modena and Reggio Emila University for the petrographic study of protostoric pottery from Tas-Silg (Malta).

2015
Internship: Archaeological Excavation at the Bronze-Age site of Pilastri(Italy) , geophysical measurements in the field

2013 - 2014
Internship: Archaeological Excavation at San Vincenzo in Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy); catalogue, classification and reconstruction of the artifacts and petrographic study of pottery.


Selected publications:
2017
Abu Zeid N., Corradini E., Bignardi S., Nizzo V.,Santarato G. “The Passive Seismic Technique ‘HVSR’ as a Reconnaissance Tool for Mapping Paleo‐soils: The Case of the Pilastri Archaeological Site, Northern Italy” Archaeological Prospection, February 2017

2016
Abu Zeid N., Corradini E., Bignardi S., Morandi N., Nizzo V.,Santarato G.,”Unusual Geophysical Techniques in Archaeology - HVSR and Induced Polarization, A Case History”. Near Surface Geoscience September 2016 - 22nd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics

2013
Levi S., Brunelli D., Cannavò V., Corradini E., Direnzoni A., Fragnoli P, ”Store, classify and share: the Wikipottery project at Modena University”, 2013, Abstracts of EMAC12th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics, Padova