PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of my publications is available here:

2024

• Cvitkušić, B., Cristiani, E., Zupancich, A., and Vujević, D., 2024. Prehistoric ornaments in a changing environment: An integrated approach to the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Columbella rustica shells from the Vlakno cave, Croatia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 165(8), p.105972

• Cvitkušić, B., Cristiani, E., and Vujević, D., 2024. Late Upper Palaeolithic ornaments from Vlakno cave, Croatia. Documenta Praehistorica, LI, pp. 1-19.

• Fiorin, E., Roberts, C.A., Baldoni, M., Connelly, E., Lee, C., Ottoni, C., and Cristiani, E., 2024. First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England. Scientific Reports, 14, p.2452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52422-8.

• Fiorin, E., and Cristiani, E., 2024. A protocol for the extraction of microremains from archaeological human dental calculus. https://doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.3byl4q6r8vo5/v1.

• Capasso, G., Neves, D., Sperduti, A., Cristiani, E., and Manzo, A., 2024. Direct evidence of plant consumption in Neolithic Eastern Sudan from dental calculus analysis. Scientific Reports, 14, p.4278. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53300-z.

2023

• Fiorin, E., Cristiani, E., and Roberts, C., 2023. Knowledge and perception of leprosy amongst high school students in Italy: A survey. Leprosy Review, 94, pp.341-349. https://doi.org/10.47276/lr.94.4.341.

• Zupancich, A., Cristiani, E., Gopher, A., and Ibáñez, J., 2023. Human-plant interaction at the onset of agriculture: The PATH project. Antiquity, 97(395), E26. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.111.

• Cristiani, E., and Borić, D., 2023. Parure di antichi cacciatori-raccoglitori dell'Europa sud-orientale. Nuova Cultura Editore. ISBN-9788833653761, Roma.

2022

• Gravel-Miguel, C., Cristiani, E., Hodgkins, J., Orr, C.M., Strait, D.S., Peresani, M., Benazzi, S., Pothier-Bouchard, G., Meyer, D., Drohobytsky, D., Talamo, S., Panetta, D., Zupancich, A., Miller, C.E., Negrino, F., and Riel-Salvatore, J., 2022. The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 30, pp.757-804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09573-7.

• Carra, M., Zupancich, A., Fiorin, E., Sarti, L., Lo Vetro, D., Martini, F., and Cristiani, E., 2022. Plant foods in the Late Palaeolithic of Southern Italy and Sicily: Integrating carpological and dental calculus evidence. Quaternary International, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.06.007.

• Borić, D., and Cristiani, E., 2022. A Hybrid Cultural World: The Turn of the 7th to the 6th Millennium BC in the Central Balkans. In: P. Biehl and E. Rosenstock, eds. 6000 BC: Transformation and Change in the Near East and Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.319-342. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107337640.023.

2021

• Hodgkins, J., Orr, C.M., Gravel-Miguel, C., Riel-Salvatore, J., Miller, C., Bondioli, L., Nava, A., Lugli, F., Talamo, S., Hajdinjak, M., Cristiani, E., Romandini, M., Meyer, D., Drohobytsky, D., Kuester, F., Pothier-Bouchard, G., Buckley, M., Mancini, L., Baruffaldi, F., Silvestrini, S., Arrighi, S., Keller, H.M., Griggs, R.B., Peresani, M., Strait, D.S., Benazzi, S., and Negrnino, F., 2021. An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe. Scientific Reports, 11, p.23735. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02804-z.

• Cristiani, E., Radini, A., Zupancich, A., Gismondi, A., D'Agostino, A., Ottoni, C., Carra, M.L., Vukojicic, S., Constantinescu, M., Antonović, D., Douglas Price, T., and Borić, D., 2021. Wild cereal grain consumption among Early Holocene foragers of the Balkans predates the arrival of agriculture. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72976.

• Ottoni, C., Borić, D., Cheronet, O., Sparacello, V., Dori, I., Coppa, A., Antonovic, D., Vujevic, D.T., Douglas Price, P., Pinhasi, R., and Cristiani, E., 2021. Tracking the transition to agriculture in Southern Europe through ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus. PNAS, 118(32) e2102116118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102116118.

• Pedergnana, A., Cristiani, E., Munro, N., Valletta, F., and Sharon, G., 2021. Early line and hook fishing at the Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat (Northern Israel). PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0257710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257710.

• Cristiani, E., Zupancich, A., Duches, R., Carra, M.L., Caricola, I., Fontana, A., Flor, E., and Fontana, F., 2021. Non-flaked stones used in the Mesolithic Eastern Alpine Region: A functional assessment from Romagnano Loc III and Pradestel sites. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, p.102928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102928.

• Nava, A., Fiorin, E., Zupancich, A., Carra, M.L., Ottoni, C., Di Carlo, G., Vozza, I., Brugnoletti, O., Alhaique, F., Grifoni Cremonesi, R., Coppa, A., Bondioli, L., and Borić, D., Cristiani, E., 2021. Multipronged dental analyses reveal dietary differences in last foragers and first farmers at Grotta Continenza, central Italy (15,500–7000 BP). Scientific Reports, 11, p.4261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82401-2.

2020

• Nava, A., Lugli, F., Romandini, M., Badino, Evans, D., Helbling, A.H., Oxilia, G., Arrighi, S., Bortolini, E., Delpiano, D., Duches, R., Figus, C., Livraghi, A., Marciani, G., Silvestrini, S., Cipriani, A., Giovanardi, T., Pini, R., Tuniz, C., Bernardini, F., Dori, I., Coppa, A., Cristiani, E., Dean, C., Bondioli, L., Peresani, M., Müller, W., and Benazzi, S., 2020. Early life of Neanderthals. PNAS, 2, 117(46), pp.28719-28726. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011765117.

• Cristiani, E., Zupancich, A., 2020. Sandstone Ground Stone Technology: A Multi-Level Use Wear and Residue Approach to Investigate the Function of Pounding and Grinding Tools. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 28, pp.704-735. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09488-1.

• Lemorini, C., Cristiani, E., Cesaro, S., Venditti, F., Zupancich, A., and Gopher, A., 2020. The Use of Ash at Late Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel-An Integrated Study of Use-Wear and Residue Analysis. PloS ONE, 15(9), e0237502.

• Oxilia, G., Bortolini, E., Badino, F., Bernardini, F., Gazzoni, V., Lugli, F., Romandini, M., Radini, A., Terlato, G., Marciani, G., Silvestrini, S., Menghi Sartorio, J.C., Thun Hohenstein, U., Fiorenza, L., Kullmer, O., Tuniz, C., Moggi Cecchi, J., Talamo, S., Fontana, F., Peresani, M., Benazzi, S., and Cristiani, E., 2020. Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174, pp.232-253. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.2412.

• Zupancich, A., Cristiani, E., 2020. Functional analysis of sandstone ground stone tools: arguments for a qualitative and quantitative synergetic approach. Scientific Reports, 10(1), pp.1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72276-0.

• Fontana, F., Cristiani, E., Bertola, S., Briois, F., Guerreschi, A., and Ziggiotti, S., 2020. A snapshot of Late Mesolithic life through death: An appraisal of the lithic and osseous grave goods from the Castelnovian burial of Mondeval de Sora (Dolomites, Italy). PLOS ONE, 15, e0237573. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237573.

• Assaf, E., Caricola, I., Gopher, A., Rosell, J., Blasco, R., Bar, O., Zilberman, E., Lemorini, C., Baena, J., Barkai, R., and Cristiani, E., 2020. Shaped stone balls were used for bone marrow extraction at Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0230972. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.02309724.

2019

• Venditti, F., Cristiani, E., Nunziante-Cesaro, S., Agam, A., Lemorini, C., and Barkai, R., 2019. Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery. Scientific Reports, 9(1), pp.1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49650-8.

• Borić, D., Borovinic, N., Đuricić, J., Bulatović, J., Gerometta, K., Alluè, E., Vušović-Lucić, S., and Cristiani, E., 2019. Spearheading into the Neolithic: Last Foragers and First Farmers in the Dinaric Alps of Montenegro. European Journal of Archaeology, 22(4), pp.470-498. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.14.

• Borić, D., and Cristiani, E., 2019. Taking Beads Seriously: Prehistoric Forager Ornamental Traditions in Southeastern Europe. PaleoAnthropology, pp.208−239. https://doi.org/10.4207/PA.2019.ART132.

• Zupancich, A., Mutri, G., Caricola, I., Carra, M., Radini, A., and Cristiani, E., 2019. The application of 3D modeling and spatial analysis in the study of groundstones used in wild plants processing. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11, pp.4801-4827. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00824-5.

2018

• Cristiani, E., Radini, A., Borić, D., Robson, H.K., Caricola, I., Carra, M.L., Mutri, G., Oxilia, G., Zupancich, A., Šlaus, M., and Vujević, D., 2018. Dental calculus and isotopes provide direct evidence of fish and plant consumption in Mesolithic Mediterranean. Scientific Reports, 8, p.8147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26045-9.

• Borić, D., Higham, T., Cristiani, E., Dimitrijevic, S., Griffiths, S., Alexander, C., Mihailovic, B., Filipović, D., Allué, E., and Buckley, M., 2018. High-Resolution AMS Dating of Architecture, Boulder Artworks and the Transition to Farming at Lepenski Vir. Scientific Reports, 8, p.14221. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31884-7.

• Caricola, I., Zupancich, A., Moscone, D., Mutri, G., Falcucci, A., Duches, R., Peresani, M., and Cristiani, E., 2018. An integrated method for understanding the function of macro-lithic tools. Use wear, 3D and spatial analyses of an Early Upper Palaeolithic assemblage from North Eastern Italy. PLOS ONE, 13(12), e0207773. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207773.

2017

• Oxilia, G., Bertolini, E., Martini, S., Papini, A., Boggioni, M., Buti, L., Figus, C., Sorrentino, R., Townsend, G., Kaidonis, J., Fiorenza, L., Cristiani, E., Kullmer, O., Moggi-Cecchi, J., and Benazzi, S., 2017. The physiological linkage between molar inclination and dental macrowear pattern. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 166, pp.941–951. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23476.

2016

• Zupancich, A., Nunziante-Cesaro, S., Blasco, R., Rosell, J., Cristiani, E., Venditti, F., Lemorini, C., Barkai, R., and Gopher, A., 2016. Early evidence of stone tool use in bone working activities at Qesem Cave, Israel. Scientific Reports, 6, p.37686. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37686.

• Cristiani, E., Radini, A., Edinborough, M., and Borić, D., 2016. Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods. PNAS, 11, pp.10298-10303. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603477113.

• Cristiani, E., Dimitrijević, V., and Vitezović, S., 2016. Fishing with lure hooks at the Late Neolithic site of Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 65, pp.134-147.

• Peresani, M., Cristiani, E., and Romandini, M., 2016. The Uluzzian technology of Grotta di Fumane and its implication for reconstructing cultural dynamics in the Middle – Upper Palaeolithic transition of Western Eurasia. Journal of Human Evolution, 91, pp.36-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.10.012.

• Cristiani, E., and Borić, D., 2016. Mesolithic harpoons from Odmut, Montenegro: Chronological, Contextual, Technological, and Use-Wear Analyses. Quaternary International, 423, pp.166-192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.010.