Research Interests
-Prehistoric cultures of Middle Bronze Age Sicily (Thapsos) and Aeolian Archipelago (Milazzese).
-Chrono-typological seriation of the Sicilian MBA ceramic assemblages (Thapsos-Milazzese cultures).
-Intercultural links between Bronze Age Sicily and Aegean/Cypriot cultures.
-Chronological, Typological and Contextual facets of the Aegean and Cypriot imports to central Mediterranean.
-Social analysis of Sicilian Middle Bronze Age cultures on the grounds of funerary and settlement data.
-Relative and absolute chronology: cross-dating, C14, occurrence/frequency seriation.
-Multivariate approaches to interpret archaeological data.
-Study of pottery type-series by use of Correspondence Analysis, Principal Component Analysis, Cluster Analysis.
-Reduction and interpretation of complex data-sets by means of multidimensional scaling techniques.
-Statistical exploratory approaches to the archaeological evidence.