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Valeria Tiezzi @valeriatiezzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 New paper out! 📣 As my postdoc at IAE PAN comes to an end, I am pleased to share our new paper on the Transport Stirrup Jars found at the LBA harbour of Pefkakia near Volos, Greece🏺What perfect timing! OA on #JASrep for the next 50 days here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy and honoured to have received a Michela Schiff Giorgini Foundation Grant for the excavation and study of the Salama Rock Shelter, a really interisting trans-Holocene site that we discovered a couple of years ago in the Egyptian Eastern Desert! Cool stuff to come, stay tuned!

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Happy to finally share the main outcome of my year-long side quest with the folks at UNESCO's Arslantepe: an ultra-high-resolution RUSLE model of the site, with the instructions for an easily replicable (really!) workflow for any other context (you'll need a drone for that 🥸) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Just two days left for abstract submission at INQUA27 in Lucknow! Come talk with me about desert archives and micromorphology!

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Abstracts submission for the INQUA Congress 2027 in Lucknow-India is open! Come see myself, @kathleennicoll.bsky.social and @andzerb.bsky.social and tell us all about your latest geological, archaeological and paleoclimatic discoveries from the African and Arabian deserts!

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Submitted, guess I'll see you there! Bring sunscreen because the Algarve's sun is no joke!

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

About Mersa Gawasis: I should be able to make it to SafA 2025 in Faro, where I plan to present kickstart results from the 2023-24 field seasons - a whole lotta stuff from Stone Age scatters up to Industrial Archaeology, but it's the rock shelters that always make for the best photos to flex

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

On top of it, I am lecturer of Quaternary Geology and Climates at the Earth Sciences Dept of the University of Milan, I coordinate student logistics for the Bronze Age dig of Poviglio (still UniMi), and am Geoarchaeology Field Director for the Italian Mission to Mersa Gawasis (Egypt)

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Currently I hold a PostDoc position for GIS geoheritage analyses for the preservation and valorization of the UNESCO site of Arslantepe, working with the Sapienza-RomaTre-Tuscia joint mission. This is mostly a technical service kind of work, but I plan to publish on the methodological aspect

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Some more collaborative stuff should be out soon, and in this compilation I didn't include progress reports and book chapters - just DM me for any of that

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And Sudan always in a special place in my heart - geomorphology and remote sensing as the most powerful tool to monitor land use and plan new surveys doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Collaborations on formation processes in arid lands always active, this time regarding the canals of the Tower of Salut in Oman doi.org/10.1177/0959...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

PhD over, and I walked the walk towards completely new horizons for my first PostDoc position - Third Mission, museum studies, research sustainability and Neanderthals in coastal northern Italy. doi.org/10.1016/j.me... By the end of 2025 there will be a big one, working on it!

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And one on north Italian Bronze Age, because it's always good to have a stroll in your own backyard every now and then (I got more on the general topic but they ended up on books edited in Italian - DM me if interested)

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Meanwhile, there went a couple of works on the demise of the Assyrian water management infrastructures in northern Mesopotamia - research paper and related micromorphology photographic dataset doi.org/10.1177/0959... doi.org/10.1016/j.di... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Then my favourite one from my PhD: making sense of the paleoenvironmental data from a region the size of northern Italy - not the ultimate work, but I am quite proud of it (please cite it lol) doi.org/10.1177/0959...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Back to the original quest, geomorphological-archaeological nexus in Mahal Teglinos - the most important yet still mostly unknown late Holocene archaeological site of the easternmost Sahel doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Then came a lucky side quest on the obscure east Sudan's Islamic funerary tradition, which is still getting more attention than I could anticipate doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Stefano Costanzo @geoarcheoabacus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What is up mammals, I just managed to get back into my account so here goes the inauguration post with a compilation of my articles in chronological order, starting from the oldest - the geomorphological map of the Southern Atbai (Sudan), kicking off my PhD journey doi.org/10.1080/1744...

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