Books by Emanuele Taccola
Biblioteca di «Studi Etruschi», 2021
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Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno internazionale tenutosi a Volterra nel 2017 con la partecipazione di studiosi italiani e stranieri appartenenti a istituzioni di ricerca e di tutela e di giovani ricercatori e studenti universitari. Per la prima volta nella storia dei convegni su Volterra, questo incontro di studio ha inteso affrontare tutti gli aspetti dell’archeologia della città in una misura di lungo periodo: dalla protostoria, all’epoca etrusca, all’età romana e alla tarda antichità. Non mancano inoltre interventi sulle peculiarità linguistiche dell’ingente documentazione epigrafica volterrana, né contributi relativi alle prospettive di valorizzazione e tutela del patrimonio storico-archeologico. Uno spazio speciale è stato riservato ai recenti rinvenimenti di ambito urbano e periurbano che stanno cambiando nelle opinioni scientifiche correnti il volto dell’archeologia della città.
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Archaeopress Access Archaeology, 2019
L'origine etrusca della città di Pisa, messa in discussione fino all'inizio degli anni Ottanta, è... more L'origine etrusca della città di Pisa, messa in discussione fino all'inizio degli anni Ottanta, è stata definitivamente confermata grazie a una stagione di indagini archeologiche sistematiche concluse alle soglie del nuovo Millennio. Uno dei principali interventi di scavo è quello effettuato tra il 1985 e il 1988 a breve distanza dalla torre pendente (saggio D), dove è stata portata alla luce una sequenza stratigrafica ininterrotta dalla metà del VI secolo a.C. alla fine del V secolo d.C. Gli edifici che si susseguono in questo arco cronologico condividono gli stessi allineamenti e lo stesso orientamento, nell'ambito di un reticolo urbano apparentemente regolare e consapevolmente rispettato per circa nove secoli. Questo libro, dedicato al periodo ellenistico documentato nello scavo del saggio D di piazza del Duomo, presenta un ricco catalogo del repertorio ceramico ivi recuperato, gran parte del quale non ancora attestato in città. Grazie ai nuovi dati emersi da questo lavoro, è possibile ridefinire il ruolo di Pisa in quest'epoca come uno dei principali centri dell'Etruria settentrionale costiera.
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Archeologia e Calcolatori, 2024
The contribution aims to illustrate the potential of digital cartography in reconstructing the fu... more The contribution aims to illustrate the potential of digital cartography in reconstructing the funerary landscape of Pisa and Volterra. These study cases represent different scenarios, albeit within the Northern-Etruscan context. While in Pisa, the visible remains are almost non-existent, and the documentation is sparse and fragmented, the available information for Volterra is more complete and accurate. The research has resulted in two different databases integrating archaeological and cartographic information within a geographic information system produced by public administration. The two freely accessible GIS platforms offer an overview of the collected data and enable filtering, querying, and analyzing records to meet specific objectives. The article concludes with a methodological note on the importance of information systems in analyzing archaeological data and the requirement to create standard protocols for collecting and disseminating geographic data.
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Studi Etruschi, Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca, 2023
Si pubblica il terzo lotto di iscrizioni etrusche dalla piazza del Duomo di Pisa (scavi Maggiani ... more Si pubblica il terzo lotto di iscrizioni etrusche dalla piazza del Duomo di Pisa (scavi Maggiani 1985-1988)
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Studi Etruschi, Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca, 2023
Si pubblica il nucleo di iscrizioni etrusche dal giardino della chiesa di San Sisto in Cortevecch... more Si pubblica il nucleo di iscrizioni etrusche dal giardino della chiesa di San Sisto in Cortevecchia (Pisa)
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Archaeometry, 2023
This contribution aims to outline the circulation of Phoenician-Punic amphorae in Northern coasta... more This contribution aims to outline the circulation of Phoenician-Punic amphorae in Northern coastal Etruria, with a particular focus on Pisa, where their presence has been attested since the mid-8th century BC. A set of specimens from Piazza del Duomo has been analysed by minero-petrographic and geochemical techniques. The results have been compared with literature data from Mediterranean production areas. The research allowed a better definition of the role of Etruscan Pisa in the frame of commercial and cultural routes in the Mediterranean, specifically in the Tyrrhenian area, also providing the opportunity to review the attestations of Phoenician-Punic amphora on a regional scale.
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Studi Etruschi, Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca, 2022
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JRA, Jun 16, 2021
The object presented in this contribution adds to the relatively small corpus of Greco-Roman mini... more The object presented in this contribution adds to the relatively small corpus of Greco-Roman miniature sundials. It is a conical sundial made of elephant ivory, found in secondary deposition within an Augustan-age residential context in the Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, Italy. The article provides a thorough gnomonic study for this unique sundial as well as a detailed appreciation of related cultural, social, and typological aspects. This discovery may help to better define the social level of this area of the city between 2nd and 1st c. BCE.
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Studi Etruschi, Rivista di Epigrafia Etrusca, 2020
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ARCHEOLOGIA E CALCOLATORI 28.2. Proceedings of the KAINUA 2017: International Conference in Honour of Professor Giuseppe Sassatelli’s 70th Birthday (Bologna, 18-21 April 2017) edited by Simone Garagnani, Andrea Gaucci., 2017
Nowadays, archaeology and modern 3D modelling and representation technologies form an unbreakable... more Nowadays, archaeology and modern 3D modelling and representation technologies form an unbreakable bond, considered essential and indispensable by many experts and scholars. Although with different goals and purposes, new hardware and software available and specially designed web platforms allow the archaeologist adequately trained to create, visualize, analyze, and share 3D data derived from computer graphics or from image- and range-based acquisition procedures. Currently, a very important topic is the relationship between user and 3D model: from the simple passive fruition, we are moving increasingly towards a real interaction within immersive virtual environments. In this sense, the contribution of the archaeologist is critical to determine what to display and what to interact with, according to the end user and his skills and knowledge. In fact, the following case studies related to sites, monuments and artefacts of the Etruscan town of Volterra represent the evolution of this interaction/relationship, helping to make the fruition of archaeological evidence, that at present is still difficult to access and understanding, easier and more interesting.
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Archeologia e Calcolatori, 2021
This article describes an interdisciplinary study carried out by a team of archaeologists, 3D sur... more This article describes an interdisciplinary study carried out by a team of archaeologists, 3D surveyors and experts of new technologies applied to cultural heritage. The research was aimed at developing a virtual reality experience dedicated to Etruscan hypogean tombs in the city of Volterra. The application, intended for non-expert users, has been implemented in a touch screen version (mobile devices) as well as in VR mode (Samsung Gear Headset). In both versions, the user can easily interact with the immersive virtual context, browsing through the necropolises and/or underground tombs, and acquire textual and multimedia information.
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EVO, 2020
This paper presents the preliminary report of the 2018 season of the expedition of the University... more This paper presents the preliminary report of the 2018 season of the expedition of the University of Pisa in the area of tomb M.I.D.A.N.05, at Dra Abu el-Naga (Theban Necropolis). The work focused on the archaeological investigation of two small tombs, T1 and T2, previously discovered during the 2010 season on the northern side of the forecourt of M.I.D.A.N.05 and probably contemporary or slightly later than the latter. During the 2018 campaign, the chapel of T1 and most of the first room of T2 were excavated, revealing two different life-stories, which depend on the events and transformations which affected M.I.D.A.N.05 and its forecourt through the centuries. T1, soon sealed by debris and flash-floods, proved to have been solely used in the New Kingdom. Between the end of the Eighteenth and the early Nineteenth Dynasty, the tomb was occupied by the “Chief of the mrw-servants of Amun”, Nany, whose name appears on some sandstone fragments of a lintel and on a beautiful but regrettably fragmentary pair statue, found in pieces. T2 is larger and probably composed of two rooms. It remained accessible for many centuries, until the flood deposits filled it, covering a layer containing at least ten burials, partly cut by robbers’ pits. Only scanty elements of the funerary assemblages were found with the bodies, but various painted plaster fragments, pertaining to anthropoid coffins, date the re-use of the tomb to the Third Intermediate Period.
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Archeologia Aerea, 2021
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems are devices increasingly widely used in archaeology. Whether wi... more Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems are devices increasingly widely used in archaeology. Whether winglets or multi-rotors, the integration with many kinds of sensors for documentation, analysis and monitoring, allows for a greater and more accurate amount of information than traditional survey techniques. In particular, aerial imagery contains a quantity of data well beyond simply the “view from above”, if acquired with appropriate methodologies and approaches. In this light, the photogrammetry extrapolates precise and accurate 3D metric information through the interpretation and measurement of photographic images. As case studies, we illustrate the excavations carried out by the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa in the area of the ancient Agora of Segesta (TP) and in the Sanctuary of Punta Stilo at Kaulonia (RC), where the RPAS has been used for the low altitude 3D survey. The description of the strategy, the procedure adopted, the time required for the processing of the survey and the results obtained are accompanied by a critical reflection on the great potential but also the limitations of these devices, not least the rigid regulations recently issued by ENAC.
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International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-5. 3D-Arch 2015. 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures (XL-5/W4) 25–27 February 2015, Avila, Spain, Feb 2015
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Archaeological data are heterogeneous (i.e., data-sheets and pictures, stratigraphic data, 3D mod... more Archaeological data are heterogeneous (i.e., data-sheets and pictures, stratigraphic data, 3D models), and innovative virtual reconstructions helps to visualize and study those data. In this short paper, we describe our work in progress in the design of an innovative way to interact with the complexity of a virtual reconstruction, using natural gestures and advanced machine learning, in close collaboration with archaeologists.
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Books by Emanuele Taccola
Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno internazionale tenutosi a Volterra nel 2017 con la partecipazione di studiosi italiani e stranieri appartenenti a istituzioni di ricerca e di tutela e di giovani ricercatori e studenti universitari. Per la prima volta nella storia dei convegni su Volterra, questo incontro di studio ha inteso affrontare tutti gli aspetti dell’archeologia della città in una misura di lungo periodo: dalla protostoria, all’epoca etrusca, all’età romana e alla tarda antichità. Non mancano inoltre interventi sulle peculiarità linguistiche dell’ingente documentazione epigrafica volterrana, né contributi relativi alle prospettive di valorizzazione e tutela del patrimonio storico-archeologico. Uno spazio speciale è stato riservato ai recenti rinvenimenti di ambito urbano e periurbano che stanno cambiando nelle opinioni scientifiche correnti il volto dell’archeologia della città.
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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles by Emanuele Taccola
Il volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno internazionale tenutosi a Volterra nel 2017 con la partecipazione di studiosi italiani e stranieri appartenenti a istituzioni di ricerca e di tutela e di giovani ricercatori e studenti universitari. Per la prima volta nella storia dei convegni su Volterra, questo incontro di studio ha inteso affrontare tutti gli aspetti dell’archeologia della città in una misura di lungo periodo: dalla protostoria, all’epoca etrusca, all’età romana e alla tarda antichità. Non mancano inoltre interventi sulle peculiarità linguistiche dell’ingente documentazione epigrafica volterrana, né contributi relativi alle prospettive di valorizzazione e tutela del patrimonio storico-archeologico. Uno spazio speciale è stato riservato ai recenti rinvenimenti di ambito urbano e periurbano che stanno cambiando nelle opinioni scientifiche correnti il volto dell’archeologia della città.
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Resumen: Los datos arqueológicos son heterogéneos y difíciles de correlacionar entre diferentes tipos. Las fichas técnicas y las imágenes, los datos estratigráficos y los modelos 3D, el tiempo y el espacio mezclados entre sí: son solamente algunas de las categorías que el investigador tiene que tratar. Las nuevas tecnologías pueden ser capaces de ayudar en este proceso, llenando el vacío entre la historia y el futuro, y tratar de resolver las necesidades de investigación con soluciones innovadoras. En este trabajo se describe todo el proceso que conlleva el diseño y desarrollo de un prototipo de aplicación, que utiliza un sistema de realidad virtual inmersiva para acceder a datos 3D de la excavación arqueólogica a través del algoritmo Gesture Variation Follower (GVF), que permite reconocer lo que el gesto está realizando y cómo se realiza. Los arqueólogos han participado activamente en el diseño de la interfaz y el conjunto de gestos utilizados para la activación de las diferentes tareas. Se han utilizado avanzadas técnicas de aprendizaje automático para la detección en tiempo real de los gestos. Como caso de estudio se eligió el ágora de Segesta (Sicilia, Italia). De hecho, debido a las características arquitectónicas complejas y las actividades de trabajo de campo todavía en curso, Segesta representa un contexto ideal donde poner a prueba y desarrollar un enfoque de investigación integrando ambas herramientas tradicionales y los más innovadores métodos. Palabras clave: ciber-arqueología, reconocimiento de gestos, realidad virtual (RV)
During the last excavation campaign of the University of Pisa (2014), this gap was finally filled, having reached the levels of the second half of the 4th century BC. In particular, the archaeological exploration brought to light, still in situ, a nucleus of cups and bowls deposed ritually: this discovery has been interpreted as the residue of a collective libation made by devotees at a time immediately preceding the deactivation of the late-archaic temple, dating back to the second half of the 4th century BC.
The upper deposit, in addition to having returned an extremely high number of painted architectural terracottas and high-quality Hellenistic pottery, local and imported, has also allowed to date the obliteration of the same temple around 300 BC, a period that coincides with the construction of the second urban wall circuit and with an alleged siege of the Roman army to the city of Volterra, handed down by the historical sources.
Subsequently, during the 3rd century BC, this area was occupied by a series of courtyards used to host metallurgical activities and, finally, was definitively levelled for the construction of temple A at the beginning of the 2nd century BC.
agora of Segesta. The research, led by a team of archaeologists and researchers of the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa, has developed a 3D simulation of the ancient agora, allowing experts and non-experts to virtually reproduce
the excavation activity and to interact with the hypothetical reconstruction of the monuments. The application is configured to run in two different virtual environments: within the CAVE-like system of the DreamsLab at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where the user can manage it in a complete hand-free way, and on wearable, such as the Oculus Rift DK2 and the Myo Armband, making the application easily portable and available on the field, during the fieldwork activity, the final goal being to bridge the gap between the data acquisition and interpretation steps.
de arqueólogos e investigadores de la Scuola Normale Superiore y de
la Universidad de Pisa, Italia. Presenta una nueva aplicación que combina
técnicas gráficas por computadora y métodos de fotogrametría terrestre
y aérea (Structure from Motion) para monitorear, documentar y registrar
las diversas fases de una excavación arqueológica, así como para crear
un modelo digital en 3d del ágora (plaza pública) de Segesta, un
importante sitio arqueológico localizado en Sicilia, Italia. La novedosa
aplicación permite interactuar a manos libres con la simulación del ágora
de Segesta y con los modelos de las diferentes fases de excavación del sitio.
Específicamente, el operador usa una interface natural con gestos manuales
para deslizar y visualizar los modelos de las capas arqueológicas, que
pueden alinearse perfectamente. Usando la misma interface, se pueden
desplegar modelos de artefactos significativos descubiertos durante la
excavación y obtener los metadatos respectivos (almacenados en
un servidor especial), los cuales pueden también ser visualizados
en dispositivos externos (tabletas o monitores) sin tener que portar ningún
tipo de dispositivo externo. Todas estas funciones se contextualizan
en la simulación completa del ágora, por lo que es posible verificar
interpretaciones antiguas y mejorar las nuevas en tiempo real.
The meeting will be attended by archaeologists, historians, and the major scholars of ancient gnomonics and the measurement of time in the Greco-Roman world.
To participate:
https://www.cfs.unipi.it/c/210423-meridiana
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Punic amphorae are undoubtedly a key indicator of this network of commercial relationships. Still, while documentation is consistent for the middle and late Hellenistic periods, evidence is much sparser and more fragmentary for the previous centuries. In addition, archaeometric studies dedicated to this type of container are substantially absent in this geographical context.
Recent acquisitions from Pisa, an Etruscan city since its earliest origins, help fill this gap with new data on Punic amphorae from a chronological and quantitative perspective, documenting uninterrupted presence from the Orientalizing to the late Hellenistic period, with a notable concentration between the end of the 5th and the middle of the 1st century BC.
The article presents the results of archaeometric analyses conducted on a set of Phoenician-Punic amphorae found in Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, highlighting a plurality of production areas in the central-western Mediterranean. Specifically, fabrics from Carthage, North Africa, Western Sicily, the Balearic Islands and the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula have been identified for the Hellenistic period.
In this sector of the ancient city, the period between the 4th and 1st centuries BC knew a deep change in the urban planning: the area investigated, which corresponded to an alleged sanctuarial complex active between the last decades of the V until the end of the III century BC, was in fact transformed into a residential area in the early second century BC, in which the remains of the domus unearthed retained the same orientation of the structures of the previous phases.
The aim of this paper is to present a wide overview of the archaeological findings of the Hellenistic age recovered within the excavation of Piazza del Duomo, a large part of which was acquired through the system of harbours and ports of the ancient city, on which flowed short, medium and long-range trade routes.
Concerning the pottery repertoire, there are significant changes compared to the data available up to now: on the one hand, for the first time ceramics classes still unknow for Pisa are attested, especially with regard to Etruscan early-Hellenistic fine productions and some categories of amphorae; on the other hand, and in more general terms, the specimens recovered in the excavations 1985-1988 significantly supplement the quantitative data relating to all the ceramics classes already documented in the urban and territorial context.
From all these indications it is possible to confirm that the Hellenistic age represented a very prosperous period for Pisa, first (half IV-mid-III century BC) in the role of northern stronghold in the commercial circuit known as facies dei porti, of which the city did not constitute simply a stage, but a pole of redistribution towards the Etruscan and Ligurian centers of Versilia and of the internal territory; subsequently, as a consequence of the maritime dominance of Rome obtained at the end of the first Punic war, as a center of strategic importance for the wars against Galli and Liguri and for the trades directed towards the western Mediterranean.
Il sito, occupato nella fase etrusca da strutture e installazioni compatibili con un’area a vocazione sacra, subisce nel passaggio tra III e II secolo a.C. una serie di trasformazioni a cui sembrano concorrere fattori naturali e antropici, in un’epoca che vede Roma assumere definitivamente il controllo dell’Etruria settentrionale costiera a seguito delle guerre contro le popolazioni liguri.
La principale conseguenza riscontrata archeologicamente è la modifica della destinazione d’uso di questo settore della città antica, che assume adesso una connotazione di tipo abitativo, pur nel rispetto dell’antico asse viario e dell’orientamento degli edifici.
Il presente contributo rende conto della nascita del quartiere residenziale nel secondo quarto del II secolo a.C. e delle fasi edilizie databili entro la fine del I secolo a.C.: in questo lasso temporale sono state riconosciute, seppur da scarsi lacerti murari, almeno due abitazioni a est della strada nord-sud. La prima, di cui rimane un vano interpretato come cucina-dispensa, subisce due interventi di ristrutturazione, tra cui un particolare impianto di canalizzazione, tra l’ultimo quarto del II e la prima metà del I secolo a.C. Con l’inizio dell’età augustea, che segue di poco la deduzione della Colonia Opsequens Iulia Pisana, l’area è coinvolta in una nuova stagione urbanistica, che determina non solo l’edificazione della seconda domus individuata, ma anche la messa in opera di infrastrutture di servizio pubbliche, nell’ambito di una più ampia riqualificazione dell’intero sito di piazza del Duomo.
Attualmente un argomento molto trattato e dibattuto è la relazione tra utente e modello 3D: da una semplice fruizione passiva i nuovi strumenti consentono una sempre più attiva interazione soprattutto all’interno di ambienti virtuali immersivi. Da questo punto di vista l’apporto dell’archeologo è fondamentale nel determinare cosa visualizzare e con cosa interagire a seconda dell’utente finale e delle sue capacità e competenze.
Il santuario di Punta Stilo a Kaulonia rappresenta un campo di sperimentazione ideale, grazie alla possibilità di operare a vari livelli di scala, con varie procedure di rilievo e modellazione 3D che garantiscono l'acquisizione di molteplici tipologie di informazioni. I numerosi video a corredo della presentazione consentono di apprezzare in modo diretto le potenzialità enormi di questo nuovo approccio di studio, analisi e comunicazione del dato archeologico.
Currently, a very important topic is the relationship between user and 3D model: from the simple passive fruition, we are moving more and more towards a real interaction within immersive virtual environments. In this sense, the contribution of the archaeologist is critical to determine what to display and what interact with, according to the end user and his skills and knowledge.
In fact, the following study cases related to sites, monuments and artifacts of the Etruscan town of Volterra represent the evolution of this interaction relationship, helping to make the fruition of archaeological evidences, that at present are still difficult to access and understanding, easier and more interesting.
virtual reconstractuions helps to visualize and study those data. In this short paper, we describe our work in progress in
the design of an innovative way to interact with the complexity of a virtual reconstruction, using natural gestures and
advanced machine learning, in close collaboration with archeaeologists.