Giacomo Capuzzo

• 2010-2014: Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology and in Archaeological Sciences at the Department of Prehistory, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain); co-tutelle thesis with the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Padova (Italy). Final grade: Exceŀlent cum laude Thesis title: Space-temporal analysis of radiocarbon evidence and associated archaeological record: from Danube to Ebro Rivers and from Bronze to Iron Ages. Supervisor: Prof. Juan Antonio Barceló (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Co-supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Leonardi (University of Padova).
• 2006-2009: Laurea Specialistica (M.A. degree) in Prehistoric Archaeology obtained at the University of Padova (Italy). Final grade: 110/110. Thesis title: Insediamento tra Bronzo Finale e IX sec. a.C. nelle province di Mantova, Brescia e Verona. Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Leonardi.
• 2003-2006: Laurea Triennale (B.A. degree) in Archaeology obtained at the University of Padova (Italy). Final grade: 110/110. Thesis title: Gli spilloni a globetti nelle tombe di Este. Supervisor: Prof. Loredana Capuis.

CURRENT POSITION

2023-present: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Laboratorio Bagolini Archeologia, Archeometria, Fotografia (LaBAAF), Department of Humanities, University of Trento, via T. Gar 14, 38122 Trento, Italy. PI of the project MOLA “Mobility and Life histories in the Alps – Understanding prehistoric social strategies in mountain environment” (www.molaproject.com).

2023-present: Member of the Laboratorio Bagolini Archeologia, Archeometria, Fotografia (LaBAAF), Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Trento. (https://r1.unitn.it/labaaf/).

2021-present: Member of the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab (BB-LAB), Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium. (https://www.bb-lab.be/).

2023-present: Postdoctoral researcher in the LEAP – Learning from the past. The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium (www.leap-belgium.be).

2023-present: Member of the Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry (AMGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium. (https://amgc.research.vub.be/home).

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2018-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Unit: Anthropology and Human Genetics, Department of Biology of Organisms and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 192, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels (Belgium) within the EOS project CRUMBEL. Cremations, Urns and Mobility - Ancient Population Dynamics in Belgium (FWO-F.R.S.-FNRS No. 30999782). (https://www.crumbel.org/)

2018-2023: Member of the G-Time Lab (Geochemistry: isotopic, mineral and element tracing), Faculty of Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 160, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels (Belgium).

2015-2018: External postdoctoral collaborator at the Quantitative Archaeology Lab (LAQU), Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). (http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/laqu)

2011-2014: Member of the research group G6 in the interdisciplinary research project Social and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour (SimulPast), funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, under the program CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010, CSD2010-00034. Case study CS7 “Dynamics of social interactions and adoption of innovation in prehistoric Europe”

2010-2017: Member of the research group AGREST, funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya. (http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/agrest/)

• European protohistory
• Burial practices, inhumation, and cremation in prehistoric Europe
• Radiocarbon dating
• Strontium, oxygen, and sulfur isotopes for palaeomobility
• Bayesian analysis (OxCal modeling)
• Geostatistical methods in archaeology and geochemistry
• Isoscape modeling
• Diffusion processes in archaeology, human mobility in the past
• Adoption of innovations and phenomena of cultural change
• Demographic fluctuations and environmental changes

• Member of the Royal Belgian Society of Anthropology and Prehistory/Société Royale Belge d'Anthropologie et de Préhistoire/Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Antropologie en Prehistorie (http://collections.naturalsciences.be/ssh-projects/srbap).
• Member of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) (https://www.e-a-a.org/).
• Member of the IsoArcH Association (https://www.isoarch.eu/index.php/articles/).

CONFERENCES

Capuzzo G, Leonard H, Pincé P, Boudin M, Burlet C, Crombé P, Deforce K, Verheyden S, Wojcieszak M, Claeys P, De Groote I, De Mulder G, Snoeck C. (poster): LEArning from the Past: the LEAP project. Investigating the impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium. Climate of the Past and Societal Responses to Environmental Changes (ClimPast2024), Bern (Switzerland), June 5-8, 2024.

Pincé P, Fagel N, Capuzzo G, Boudin M, Burlet C, Claeys P, Crombé P, De Groote I, De Mulder G, Leonard H, Snoeck C, Verheyden S, Wojcieszak M, Deforce K. (poster): Vegetation dynamics in relation to abrupt climate changes at 4.2 and 3.2 ka cal BP in SE-Belgium. Continuity or a potential tipping point? Climate of the Past and Societal Responses to Environmental Changes (ClimPast2024), Bern (Switzerland), June 5-8, 2024.

Capuzzo G, Stamataki E, Beck De Lotto MA, Pettarin S, Claeys P, Mattielli N, Tasca G, Snoeck C. (talk): Reconstructing chronology, human mobility, and funerary practices at the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age urnfield of San Valentino (San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy) using a multi-proxy approach. 2nd Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2024), Ljubljana, Novo mesto (Slovenia), May 7-10, 2024.

Leonard H, Capuzzo G, Sengeløv A, De Mulder G, Deforce K, Pincé P, Boudin M, Wojcieszak M, Crombé P, Verheyden S, Burlet C, De Groote I, Claeys P, Snoeck C. (poster): The Early Adoption of Cremation Practices: 87Sr/86Sr Analysis of Cremated Remains in Weelde, Belgium. 2nd Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2024), Ljubljana, Novo mesto (Slovenia), May 7-10, 2024.

Salesse K, Stamataki E, Daumas M, Kharobi A, Hlad M, Boucherie A, James H, Griffith J, Capuzzo G, Kopec M, Louryan S, Vercauteren M, Snoeck C. (talk): Isotopic and Infrared Analysis of Corpse Manipulation during Cremation: An Experimental Study on Human and Animal Cadavers. 2nd Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2024), Ljubljana, Novo mesto (Slovenia), May 7-10, 2024.

Pincé P, Capuzzo G, Boudin M, Burlet C, Claeys P, Crombé P, De Groote I, De Mulder G, Leonard H, Snoeck C, Verheyden S, Wojcieszak M, Deforce K. (talk): Learning from the past (LEAP). The impact of abrupt climate changes on society and environment in Belgium. BELQUA 2023 Annual Scientific Workshop, Brussels (Belgium), March 7, 2023.

 Capuzzo G, De Mulder, Sabaux C, Dalle S, Boudin M, Annaert R, Hlad M, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M, Snoeck C. (talk): Where are the dead? Funerary practices and population dynamics in prehistoric and historic Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating cremated bones. 1st Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2022), Ghent (Belgium), October 25-28, 2022.

Kontopoulos I, Stamataki E, Salesse K, Capuzzo G, Laha P, De Kegel B, Sabaux C, Boudin M, Hauffman T, Annaert R, Dalle S, Hlad M, Sengeløv A, Veselka B, Adriaens D, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M, De Mulder G, Snoeck, C. (talk): A multi-method approach for the assessment of structural and chemical modifications in archaeological burnt bone from Wallonia, Belgium. 1st Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2022), Ghent (Belgium), October 25-28, 2022.

Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Stamataki E, Hlad M, Sabaux C, Veselka B, De Mulder G, Annaert R, Boudin M, Salessen K, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M. (poster): The odd one out: discussing the origins of the highest 87Sr/86Sr value found in cremated bones in Belgium using a preliminary BASr of Belgium. 1st Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2022), Ghent (Belgium), October 25-28, 2022.

Stamataki E, Salesse S, Kontopoulos I, Veselka B, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Claeys P, Hlad M, Dalle S, Sabaux C, Sengeløv A, Vercauteren M, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G, Snoeck C. (poster): Cremations through time and space in Belgium: Investigating the changes in cremation conditions from the Metal Ages to the Medieval period using FTIR-ATR and carbon and oxygen isotope analysis. 1st Cremation in Archaeology Conference (CIA2022), Ghent (Belgium), October 25-28, 2022.

Capuzzo G, De Mulder, Sabaux C, Dalle S, Boudin M, Annaert R, Hlad M, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M, Snoeck C. (talk): Where are the dead? Prehistoric and historic funerary and population dynamics in Belgium, the impact of radiocarbon dating cremated bones. 10th 14C & Archaeology Conference, Zurich (Switzerland), September 11-16, 2022.

Veselka B, Reich D, Capuzzo G, Bernardos R, Cattelain L, Callan K, Zalzala F, Snoeck C. (talk): Prehistoric patchwork: manipulation of Neolithic skeletal remains from Pommerœul, Belgium. Intersectional Bodies Symposium, Leicester (UK), June 16-17, 2022.

Dalle S, Snoeck C, Sengeløv A, Salesse K, Hlad M, Annaert R, Boonants T, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Goderis S, Gerritzen C, Sabaux C, Stamataki E, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G. (talk): Strontium isotopic and elemental differences between Metal Ages and Roman individuals in Destelbergen, Belgium. UK Archaeological Sciences Conference 2022, Aberdeen (UK), April 20-22, 2022.

Stamataki E, McMillan R, Kontopoulos I, Salesse K, Veselka B, Dalle S, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Claeys P, Hlad M, Sabaux C, Sengeløv A, Vercauteren M, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G, Snoeck C. (poster): Cremated bones reveal secrets: Investigating the differences in cremation conditions between the Metal Ages and the Roman period in Belgium using FTIR-ATR and carbon and oxygen isotope analysis. UK Archaeological Sciences Conference 2022, Aberdeen (UK), April 20-22, 2022.

Sabaux C, Snoeck C, Capuzzo G, Veselka B, Hlad M, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Warmenbol E, Boudin M, Annaert R, Dalle S, Salesse K, Vercauteren M, De Mulder G. (poster): Radiocarbon dating and strontium isotope analyses reveal plural burials in the Belgian Meuse Valley. UK Archaeological Sciences Conference 2022, Aberdeen (UK), April 20-22, 2022.

Capuzzo G & CRUMBEL Team (talk): Early and Middle Bronze Age cremations in Belgium. Lunula, Journée de Contact de la Cellule Archéologie des Âges des Métaux, Tongeren (Belgium), February 26, 2022.

Capuzzo G, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Dalle S, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G, Tys D, Vercauteren M. (talk): Cremations, urns and mobility in prehistoric and historic Belgium: interlinked archaeological and biological information in the CRUMBEL database. 27th EAA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel Virtual (Germany). September 6-11, 2021.

Stamataki E, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M, Tys D. (talk): Changes in funerary practices of Belgian Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields. Lunula, Journée de Contact de la Cellule Archéologie des Âges des Métaux, Online edition, February 27, 2021.

Dalle S, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Hlad M, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G. (talk): Interpreting the strontium signature of the Metal Ages population in Destelbergen (Belgium). Lunula, Journée de Contact de la Cellule Archéologie des Âges des Métaux, Online edition, February 27, 2021.

Hlad M, Annaert R, Capuzzo G, Veselka B, Dalle S, Sengeløv A, Vercauteren M, De Mulder G, Snoeck C, Tys D. (talk). Analytical techniques in the toolbox of early medieval archaeology: potential and limitations. Examples from the Crumbel project, Belgium. 26th EAA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Budapest Virtual (Hungary), August 26-30, 2020.

De Mulder G, Snoeck C, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Sabaux C, Dries T, Annaert R, Hlad M, Vercauteren M, Warmenbol E. (talk): CRUMBEL: studying patterns and mobility in Belgium from the Late Neolithic till the Merovingian period. 26th EAA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Budapest Virtual (Hungary), August 26-30, 2020.

Capuzzo G, Snoeck C, Boudin M, Dalle S, Annaert R, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G, Tys D, Vercauteren M. (talk): Cremation vs inhumation, modelling cultural changes in funerary practices from the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age in Belgium using Kernel Density Analysis on 14C data. Lunula, Journée de Contact de la Cellule Archéologie des Âges des Métaux, Brussels (Belgium), February 28, 2020.

Dalle S, Sabaux C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G. (poster): CRUMBEL: Integrated approaches to study populations and mobility in Belgium. Where are you going? Reconsidering Migrations in the Metal Ages. The Metal Ages in Europe Scientific Commission Conference, International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), Edinburgh (England), November 9-10, 2019.

De Mulder G, Annaert H, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E. (talk): The CRUMBEL project: Cremated Remains, Urns and Mobility in Belgium.Goals and the first results for the Bronze Age. Bronze Age Forum 2019, Durham (UK), November 8-10, 2019.

Sengeløv A, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Annaert R, Boudin M, De Mulder G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Snoeck C. (talk): Cremations, 87Sr/86Sr and 14C: computational approaches to analyse past human mobility in Belgium. CAA Netherlands/Flanders – Annual Chapter Meeting 2019, Leuven (Belgium), October 28-29, 2019.

Hlad M, Veselka B, Stamataki E, Sabaux C, Sengeløv A, Dalle S, Capuzzo G, Salesse K, Kontopoulos I, Annaert R, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G, Vercauteren M, Boudin M, Snoeck C, Tys D. (talk): Roman Non-adult Cremations from Belgium: An Osteological perspective. 25th EEA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Bern (Switzerland), September 4-7, 2019.

Salesse K, Snoeck C, Capuzzo G, Sabaux C, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Dalle S, Hlad M, Annaert R, Vercauteren M. (talk): Shoed or not: experiments to detect garments worn by the deceased. Contribution of biochemical analyses on cremated bones. 25th EEA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Bern (Switzerland), September 4-7, 2019.

Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Stamataki E, Hlad M, Sabaux C, Veselka B, De Mulder G, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Kontopoulos I, Salesse K, Tys D, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M. (talk): MNI determination in cremated human remains through osteological and strontium isotope analysis of multiple bones. 25th EEA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Bern (Switzerland), September 4-7, 2019.

De Mulder G,Annaert H, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E. (talk):  Le projet CRUMBEL “Cremated remains, urns and mobility in Belgium”. Buts et premiers résultats”, Bronze 2019. 20 ans de recherches. Colloque international anniversaire de l’APRAB, Bayeux (France), June 19-22, 2019.

Capuzzo G, Boudin M, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Tys D, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M. (talk): Cremation Vs inhumation, modelling the cultural change in funerary practices from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages in Belgium. Radiocarbon and Archaeology 9th International Symposium, Athens, Georgia (USA), May 20-24, 2019.

De Mulder G, Stamataki E, Sengeløv A, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Snoeck C, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E. (poster): A tale of two communities during the Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age at the site of Velzeke (Prov. of East-Flanders, Belgium. Radiocarbon and Archaeology 9th International Symposium, Athens, Georgia (USA), May 20-24, 2019.

Salesse K, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Tys D, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M. (talk): Clothes for the dead – An attempt to detect the presence of garments worn by the deceased. Contribution of stable isotope analysis on cremated bone. XXIIe Colloque du GMPCA, Montréal (Canada), May 9-12, 2019.

Sabaux C, Snoeck C, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Boudin M, Warmenbol E, Annaert R, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Veselka B, De Mulder G. (poster): Cremation urns from top to bottom: excavation methods and contribution of 3D imagery. XXIIe Colloque du GMPCA, Montréal (Canada), May 9-12, 2019.

Salesse K, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Tys D, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M. (poster): Dressed to be Burnt: Experimental Approach To Detect the Presence of Garments Worn by the Deceased through Stable Isotope Analysis (δ13C, δ18O). 2019 UK Archaeological Science Conference (UKAS 2019), Manchester (England), April 24-26, 2019.

Stamataki E, Hlad M, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M, Tys D. (poster): Osteoarchaeological Analysis of Cremated Human Remains from Belgium. 2019 UK Archaeological Science Conference (UKAS 2019), Manchester (England), April 24-26, 2019.

Dalle S, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Sengeløv A, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, De Mulder G. (poster): The Study of Mobility in Belgium through the Interpretation of the Burial Landscape and Strontium Isotope Analysis. 2019 UK Archaeological Science Conference (UKAS 2019), Manchester (England), April 24-26, 2019.

Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Hlad M, Kontopoulos I, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Stamataki E, Tys D, Veselka B, Warmenbol E, Vercauteren M. (poster): Variation in Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr of Plant Samples in a Small Urban Wooded Area. 2019 UK Archaeological Science Conference (UKAS 2019), Manchester (England), April 24-26, 2019.

Capuzzo G, Sabaux C, Dalle S. (talk): Cremations, urns and mobility in Belgium: site distribution and chronology in the metal ages. Lunula, Journée de Contact de la Cellule Archéologie des Âges des Métaux, Antwerpen (Belgium), February 23, 2019.

Snoeck C, Tys D, Annaert R, De Mulder G, Vercauteren M, Warmembol E, Dalle S, Capuzzo G, Salesse K, Hlad M, Stamataki E, Sengeløv A, Sabaux C. (talk): CRUMBEL - Cremation, Urns and Mobility Population Dynamics in Belgium, Contactdag Archeologische mensenresten: uitdagingen voor de toekomst, Brussels (Belgium), December 11, 2018.

Sabaux C, Hlad M, Salesse K, Annaert R, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, De Mulder G, Sengeløv A, Snoeck C, Stamataki E, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Warmenbol E. (talk): Appréhender les pratiques de crémations et l’identité des populations crémées du passé en Belgique. Une présentation du projet EOS CRUMBEL, Séminaire de recherche : les singularités biologiques de l’humanité deux millions d’années entre biologie et culture, Brussels (Belgium), December 6, 2018.

Sabaux C, De Mulder G, Snoeck C, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Boudin M, Warmenbol E, Capuzzo G, Salesse K, Dalle S, Stamataki E, Sengeløv A, Hlad M, Annaert H. (talk): CRUMBEL - Crémations, Urnes et Mobilité – la dynamique du peuplement de la Belgique, Journées d’Archéologie en Wallonie, Flémalle (Belgium), November 22-23, 2018.

Capuzzo G, Mazzucco N, Ibáñez JJ, Gibaja J. (talk): The diffusion of Neolithic harvesting tools into the Mediterranean area, demic diffusion or cultural innovation?, 24th EAA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona (Spain), September 5-8, 2018.

Colobran M, Barceló JA, Capuzzo G, Morell B, Bogdanovic I. (talk): Add and conquer. When joining current radiocarbon databases and using data driven knowledge retrieving information systems allow new knowledge creation, 24th EEA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona (Spain), September 5-8, 2018.

De Mulder G, Annaert H, Boudin M, Capuzzo G, Dalle S, Sabaux C, Salesse K, Snoeck C, Tys D, Vercauteren M, Warmenbol E. (poster): CRUMBEL. Cremations, Urns and Mobility – Ancient population dynamics in Belgium, 23rd International Radiocarbon Conference, Trondheim (Norway), June 17-22, 2018.

Capuzzo G, Zanon M, Dal Corso M, Wiebke K, Barceló JA. (talk): Macro-scale European population trends and the impact of regional climate dynamics towards the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition, XVIIIe congrès mondial UISPP, Paris (France), June 4-9, 2018.

Capuzzo G, López Cachero FJ. (poster): De la inhumación a la cremación en el nordeste peninsular: cronología y sociedad, Cronometrías para la historia de la Península Ibérica, Barcelona (Spain), October 17-19, 2016.

Bogdanovic I, Capuzzo G, Colobran Huguet M, Morell B, Barceló JA. (talk): Formalización de las relaciones espacio-temporales en las bases de datos cronométricos, Cronometrías para la historia de la Península Ibérica, Barcelona (Spain), October 17-19, 2016.

Bogdanovic I, Capuzzo G, Morell B, Barceló JA. (talk): Toward a formalisation of spatio-temporal relationships in chronometric databases, 44th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2016 (CAA2016), Oslo (Norway), March 29-April 2, 2016.

Capuzzo G, Achino KF, Barceló JA. (talk): Ridefinendo il concetto di facies culturale: un approccio quantitativo, Facies e culture nell’età del Bronzo italiana?, Rome (Italy), December 3-4, 2015.

Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): Adoption of innovations and expansive phenomena in the 2nd millennium BC in Central and Western Europe, 43rd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 (CAA2015), Siena (Italy), March 30-April 3, 2015.

Barceló JA, Capuzzo G, Morell B, Lozano A, Achino K. (talk): The statistics of time-to-event. Integrating the Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon data and event history analysis method, 43rd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2015 (CAA2015), Siena (Italy), March 30-April 3, 2015.

Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): Cremation burials in Central and Western Europe: quantifying an adoption of innovation in the 2nd millennium BC, 4th International Open Workshop “Socio-environmental dynamics over the last 12,000 years: the creation of landscapes”, Kiel (Germany), March 24-27, 2015.

Del Castillo F, Barceló JA, Capuzzo G. (poster): Exploring a regional scale network of interactions during the Bronze Age, 1st European Conference on Social Networks, UAB-Barcelona (Spain), July 1-4, 2014.

Capuzzo G, Achino KF, Barceló JA. (talk): Validating the role of time-markers in the Middle Bronze Age: radiocarbon and typologically dated contexts from Catalonia and Southern France, Le Bronze moyen et l’origine du Bronze final en Europe occidentale. De la Méditerranée aux pays Nordiques (XVIIème-XIIIème s. av. J.-C.), Strasbourg (France), June 17-20, 2014.

Del Castillo F, Barceló JA, Capuzzo G, Morell B, Negre J. (talk): Inferring the intensity of social network from radiocarbon dated Bronze age archaeological contexts, The Connected Past, Paris (France), April 26, 2014.

Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): Modeling population dynamics and settlement patterns during the Bronze to Iron Age transition in Prehistoric Europe. A geostatistical analysis of the radiocarbon evidence, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2014 (CAA2014), Paris (France), April 22-25, 2014.

Barceló JA, Capuzzo G, Del Castillo F, Morell B, Negre J. (talk): Why archaeological similarity? Experimenting the consequences of spatial aggregation and cultural consensus in Prehistoric agriculture societies, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2014 (CAA2014), Paris (France), April 22-25, 2014.

Achino KF, Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): From counts to frequencies. Some problems regarding the quantification of spatio-temporal distributions of archaeological data, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2014 (CAA2014), Paris (France), April 22-25, 2014.

Barceló JA, Del Castillo F, Capuzzo G, Morell B, Negre J. (talk): Expansive social phenomena in Prehistory, V Workshop de EconoSocioFísica, IPHES, Tarragona (Spain), January 29-31, 2014.

Achino KF, Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): El análisis espacial de las acumulaciones temporales, 1er Simposio Iberoamericano de Análisis Espacial en Arqueología, Santander (Spain), October 21-23, 2013.

Barceló JA, Capuzzo G. (poster): The archaeological evidence of human dispersals in European Bronze Age: the radiocarbon record, ECCS’13 European Conference on Complex Systems, Barcelona (Spain), September 16-20, 2013.

Achino KF, Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): Accumulation and expansive processes in archaeological spatio-temporal analysis: from a micro to a macro scale, 19th EAA Annual Meeting, European Association of Archaeologists, Pilsen (Czech Republic), September 4-8, 2013.

Capuzzo G. (talk): Crisis and discontinuities in the European Bronze Age-Iron Age transition. Can radiocarbon dates be used as a proxy for changes in population history?, JIA 2013 VI Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica, Barcelona (Spain), May 7-11, 2013.

Capuzzo G, Boaretto E, Barceló JA.(talk): Discontinuities in the Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age in prehistoric Europe: a Bayesian analysis of 14C dated archaeological contexts, 7th International Symposium “Radiocarbon and Archaeology”, Ghent (Belgium), April 8-12, 2013.

Barceló JA, Bogdanovic I, Capuzzo G. (poster): New developments of archaeological data bases. The example of radiocarbon dating, First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archaeology, Maó (Menorca, Spain), April 9-13, 2012.

Bogdanovic I, Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): A Database for radiocarbon dates. Some methodological and theoretical issues about its implementation, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2012 (CAA2012), Southampton (England), March 26-30, 2012.

Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (talk): La secuencia crono-cultural de la edad del Bronce-comienzo de la edad del Hierro en Cataluña. Los contextos arqueológicos fechados por el C14, XV Col·loqui Internacional d'Arqueologia de Puigcerdà, Congrés Nacional de Catalunya, Puigcerdà (Spain), November 17-19, 2011.

Capuzzo G. (talk): Análisis Espacio-Temporales en arqueología: estudio de la evolución hacia la Edad del hierro en el noroeste del Mediterráneo: un enfoque metodológico, JIA 2011 IV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica, Faro (Portugal), May 11-14, 2011.

Capuzzo G, Barceló JA. (poster): Space-Time Analysis in archaeology: study of the evolution towards the Iron Age in the northwestern Mediterranean, Radiocarbon and Archaeology 6th International Symposium, Pafos (Cyprus), April 10-15, 2011.

INVITED TALKS, LECTURES, AND SEMINARS

2024, 24th May: Talk Defining local bioavailable strontium baselines: theoretical and methodological approaches with examples from Belgium and the eastern Italian Alps (45min) at the workshop Applications of stable isotope analysis to the reconstruction of pre- and proto-historic animal husbandry and mobility at the University of Padua, Italy.

2023, 23rd October: Talk The pleasures and the perils of large-scale radiocarbon datasets, current approaches and future perspectives (30min) with Prof. Enrico Crema (Cambridge University) at the workshop Top of the pop or oldies but goldies: approaches to prehistoric data from central Mediterranean, CNR-Institute for system analysis and computer science, Rome, Italy.

2022, 14th November: Talk Bronze Age cremation practices and the urnfield phenomenon in southwestern Europe (2h) at the Ghent University, Belgium.

2022, 12th January: Talk Belgian urnfields 2.0, past burial traditions and population dynamics through the lens of isotopic and radiocarbon analyses (40min) at the URNFIELD Symposium, Museum Sønderjylland, Haderslev, Denmark (online).

2021, 19th May: Talk I “campi d’urne” e la pratica della cremazione tra II e I millennio a.C. in Europa (2h) for master students in the Course Preistoria e Protostoria Europea (Cod. 1342L), University of Pisa, Italy (online).

2021, 29th February: Talk La pratica della cremazione in epoca protostorica in Europa: tra diffusione demica e trasmissione culturale. Il contributo delle datazioni radiocarboniche e degli isotopi dello stronzio (1h) during the ArcheoDays 2021 at the University of Trento, Italy (online).

2018, 20th November: Talk Population dynamics, climatic patterns and cultural change in the 2nd millennium BC in central-southern Europe: a geostatistical analysis of the radiocarbon record (2h) at the Ghent University, Belgium.

2018, 8th October: Talk Population dynamics, climatic patterns and cultural changes in the second millennium BC in Switzerland: a geostatistical analysis of the radiocarbon record (1h) at the Institute of Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science (IPNA), Universität Basel, Switzerland.

2018, 29th-30th January: Organizer and speaker at the Curs pràctic de calibració radiomètrica amb OxCal (Workshop on the use of OxCal software) (8h) organized by the Quantitative Archaeology Lab and held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

2016, 20th-22nd October: Lectures at the Curso de método cronométricos para la datación de sucesos históricos (Workshop on chronometric methods for dating historical events)  organized by the Quantitative Archaeology Lab and held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Talks Introducción y prácticas con Calib 7.0 (Introduction and practices with Calib 7.0) (30min) and Introducción y prácticas con Oxcal 4.2 (Introduction and practice with OxCal 4.2) (3h).

2016, 4th February: Lecture at the Free workshop on the calibration of radiocarbon dates (4h) organized by the Quantitative Archaeology Lab and held at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

2013, 7th November: Talk La creación de una base de datos georeferenciada de radiocarbono (Developing a georeferenced radiocarbon data database) (2h) in the seminar Nuevas aplicaciones del radiocarbono en el ámbito de las humanidades: la datación por C-14 y su calibración (New applications of the radiocarbon dating method in the humanities) held at the IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.

2012, 4th November: Talk Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in Prehistoric Europe: a space-time analysis of radiometric dates and their archaeological contexts (1h) held at the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

2012, 14th March: Talk El método de datación absoluta del radiocarbono: problemas y perspectivas (The radiocarbon dating method: problems and perspectives) (1h) held at the Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona, Spain.

2011, 12th December:Class of Introduction to the European Protohistory  (2h) in the course of Prehistòria i història antiga of the Prof. Raquel Piqué, Grau d'Humanitats, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.