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Nicolo´ Dell’Unto studied archaeology at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Upon completion of his Masters, he had a joint appointment as a research assistant at the Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage, ITABC-CNR, Italy. There, he took part in several international projects for 3D documentation and visualization of archaeological sites through the use of digital techniques. Later, he obtained a PhD in technologies and management of cultural heritage at the Institute for Advanced Studies, IMT Lucca, Italy. He also worked as a postdoc and lecturer at the University of California Merced before his current position as Associate Professor at Lund University. Since August 2019 he is visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Collection Management at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
Research
Thesis projects
Research groups
Present projects
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; EXPANDING METHODS AND CHALLENGING PARADIGMS (research leader)
- Dynamic collections (research leader)
- GRIBSHUNDEN Shipwreck
- Iron Age Blekinge I: Västra Vång
- Järnåldersarkeologi Blekinge II: Övärldens långtid och rum
- The future of drones: technologies, applications, risks and ethics (research leader)
- The Republican Forum Romanum (research leader)
Networks
Completed projects
- 3-DIGGING AT CATAL HUYOUK (research leader)
- 3D GIS: a Research Platform for the Development of New Research Methodologies for the Documentation and Analysis of Archaeological Sites. (research leader)
- Archaeological information in the digital society
- eSSENCE@LU 3:7 - Using high performance computing resources for the record and analysis of cultural heritage sites (research leader)
- Pompeii - a 3D Revival
- The Archaeology of Time Travel
- Using High Performance Computing Resources for the Record and Analysis of Cultural Heritage Sites (research leader)
- V-Must Virtual MuseumsTransnational Network (research leader)
- DATA: Enabling us to better store, observe and understand what we measure
About the research
My research is mostly focused on the development of digital methodologies for the investigation and the analysis of archaeological contexts. In particular I am interested on how the use of new technologies such as: Laser Scanners, Photogrammetry Techniques, GIS and Virtual Reality, are influencing the way of how we investigate and perceive the past.
Publications
Books (1)
Articles (19)
- Apel, J., Dell'Unto, N. & Riede, F. (2019). Istidsjägare i Uppåkra. Fornvännen, 114, 47-51. Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien.
- Landeschi, G., Apel, J., Lundström, V., Storå, J., Lindgren, S. & Dell'Unto, N. (2019). Re-enacting the sequence : Combined digital methods to study a prehistoric cave. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11, 2805-2819. Springer.
- Buckland, P., Dell'Unto, N. & Palsson, G. (2018). To tree, or not to tree? On the Empirical Basis for Having Past Landscapes to Experience. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 12. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations.
- Taylor, J., Issavi, J., Berggren, Å., Lukas, D., Mazuccato, C., Tung, B. & Dell'Unto, N. (2018). 'The Rise of the Machine' : the impact of digital tablet recording in the field at Çatalhöyük. Internet Archaeology, 47. Department of Archaeology, University of York.
- Dell'Unto, N., Landeschi, G., Apel, J. & Poggi, G. (2017). 4D Recording at the Trowel’s Edge : Using Three-Dimensional Simulation Platforms to Support Field Interpretation. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 12, 632-645. Elsevier.
- Gerding, H. & Dell'Unto, N. (2017). La Basilica Sempronia e il Foro Romano di Età Repubblicana. Forma urbis. Itinerari nascosti di Roma antica, 22, 45-48.
- Börjesson, L., Dell'Unto, N., Huvila, I., Larsson, C., Löwenborg, D., Petersson, B. & Stenborg, P. (2016). A neo-documentalist lens for exploring the premises of disciplinary knowledge making. Proceedings from the annual meeting of the Document Academy, 3, 1-23.
- Demetrescu, E., Ferdani, D., Dell'Unto, N., Leander Touati, A.-M. & Lindgren, S. (2016). Reconstructing the original Splendour of the House of Caecilius Iucundus : a complete methodology for virtual archaeology aimed at digital exhibition. scires, 6, 51-66. Caspur-Ciber Publishing.
- Landeschi, G., Dell'Unto, N., Lundqvist, K., Ferdani, D., Campanaro, D. M. & Leander Touati, A.-M. (2016). 3D-GIS as a Platform for Visual Analysis : Investigating a Pompeian House. Journal of Archaeological Science, 65, 103-113. Academic Press.
- Landeschi, G., Nilsson, B. & Dell'Unto, N. (2016). Assessing the damage of an archaeological site : new contributions from the combination of Image-based 3D modelling techniques and GIS. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 431-440. Elsevier.
- Berggren, Å., Dell'Unto, N., Forte, M., Haddow, S., Hodder, I., Issavi, J., Lercari, N., Mazzuccato, C., Mickel, A. & Taylor, J. (2015). Revisiting reflexive archaeology at Çatalhöyük : integrating digital and 3D technologies at the trowel’s edge. Antiquity, 89, 433-448. Antiquity.
- Campanaro, D. M., Landeschi, G., Dell'Unto, N. & Leander Touati, A.-M. (2015). 3D GIS for Cultural Heritage Restoration : a 'white box' workflow. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 18, 321-332. Elsevier.
- Dell'Unto, N., Landeschi, G., Leander Touati, A.-M., Dellepiane, M., Callieri, M. & Ferdani, D. (2015). Experiencing Ancient Buildings from a 3D GIS Perspective : a Case Drawn from the Swedish Pompeii Project. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23, 73-94. Plenum Press.
- Larsson, L., Söderberg, B., Trinks, I., Gabler, M., Dell'Unto, N. & Neubauer, W. (2015). Senneolitisk grav i Uppåkra. Fornvännen, 110, 147-160. Kungliga Vitterhets- historie- och antikvitetsakademien.
- Larsson, L., Trinks, I., Söderberg, B., Gabler, M., Dell'Unto, N., Neubauer, W. & Ahlström, T. (2015). Interdisciplinary archaeological prospection, excavation and 3D documentation exemplified through the investigation of a burial at the Iron Age settlement site of Uppåkra in Sweden. Archaeological Prospection, 22, 143-156. John Wiley & Sons.
- Wilhelmson, H. & Dell'Unto, N. (2015). Virtual Taphonomy : a New Method Integrating Excavation and Post-processing of Human Remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 157, 305-321. John Wiley & Sons.
- Dell'Unto, N., Nilsson, I.-M. & Wienberg, J. (2013). Förhallen i Dalby som dopkapell : en digital rekonstruktion. ALE, 2013, 12-23. De skånska landskapens historiska och arkeologiska förening.
- Dellepiane, M., Dell'Unto, N., Callieri, M., Lindgren, S. & Scopigno, R. (2013). Archeological excavation monitoring using dense stereo matching techniques. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 14, 201-210. Elsevier.
- Forte, M., Dell'Unto, N., Issavi, J., Onsurez, L. & Lercari, N. (2012). 3D Archaeology at Çatalhöyük. International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era, 1, 351-377.
Book chapters (16)
- Dell'Unto, N. (accepted/in press). The Analytical Role of 3D Realistic Computer Graphics. In Gillings, M., Hacigüzeller, P. & Lock, G. (Eds.) Archaeological Spatial Analysis : A methodological guide. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- Dell'Unto, N. (2018). 3D Models and Knowledge Production. In Huvila, I. (Ed.) Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society (pp. 54-69). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- Huvila, I., Börjesson, L., Dell'Unto, N., Löwenborg, D., Stenborg, P. & Petersson, B. (2018). Archaeological information work and the digital turn. In Huvila, I. (Ed.) Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- Dell'Unto, N., Nilsson, I.-M. & Wienberg, J. (2017). Time travel using 3D-methodologies : visualizing the medieval context of a batismal font. In Petersson, B. & Holtorf, C. (Eds.) The Archaeology of Time Travel : Experiencing the Past in the 21st Century (pp. 25-46). Archaeopress.
- Dell'Unto, N. (2016). Using 3D GIS Platforms to Analyse and Interpret the Past. In Forte, M. & Campana, S. (Eds.) Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology : Archaeology in the Age of Sensing (pp. 305-322). Springer.
- Forte, M., Danelon, N., Biancifiori, E., Dell'Unto, N. & Lercari, N. (2015). Building 89 and 3D Digging Project. In Haddow, S. (Ed.) Çatalhöyük 2015 Archive Report : by members of the Çatalhöyük Research Project (pp. 215-247).
- Forte, M., Dell'Unto, N., Jonsson, K. & Lercari, N. (2015). Interpretation Process at Çatalhöyük using 3D. In Hodder, I. & Marciniak, A. (Eds.) Themes in Contemporary Archaeology , Assembling Çatalhöyük, 1. Maney.
- Lingle, A., Dell'Unto, N., Der, L., Doyle, S., Killackey, K., Klimowicz, A., Meskell, L., Parkes, P. & Tung, B. (2015). Painted Plaster Head. In Haddow, S. (Ed.) Çatalhöyük 2015 Archive Report : by members of the Çatalhöyük Research Project (pp. 275-289).
- Dell'Unto, N. (2014). 3D models and archaeological investigation. In Huvilla, I. (Ed.) Meddelanden från Institutionen för ABM vid Uppsala universitet, Perspectives to archaeological information in the digital society (pp. 55-71). Uppsala University, Department of ALM.
- Dell'Unto, N. (2014). The Use of 3D Models for Intra-Site Investigation in Archaeology. In Campana, S. & Remondino, F. (Eds.) BAR International Series, 3D Recording and Modeling in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage : theory and best practices. Archaeopress.
- Dell'Unto, N., Leander Touati, A.-M., Ferdani, D., Dellepiane, M., Callieri, M. & Lindgren, S. (2013). Digital reconstruction and visualization in archaeology Case-study drawn from the work of the Swedish Pompeii Project. In Addison, A. C., Guidi, G., De Luca, L. & Pescarin, S. (Eds.) 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (pp. 621-628). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Petersson, B. & Dell'Unto, N. (2012). Framtidsperspektiv på Dalby kyrka, kloster och gård. In Borgehammar, S. & Wienberg, J. (Eds.) Locus Celebris. Dalby kyrka, kloster och gård. Makadam förlag.
- Dell'Unto, N. & Forte, M. (2010). Embodied Communities, Second Life and Cyber Archaeology. In Ioannides, M., Addison, A., Georgopoulus, A. & Kalisperis, L. (Eds.) Heritage in the Digital Era (pp. 181-194). Multi-Science Publishing.
- Galeazzi, F., Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, P. & Dell'Unto, N. (2010). 3D Cybermaps of Western Han Mural Tombs. In Forte, M. (Ed.) Cyber-Archaeology (pp. 97-107). BAR International.
- Dell'Unto, N., Di Ioia, M. & Palombini, A. (2007). La documentazione digitale. In Forte, M. (Ed.) La villa di Livia, un percorso di ricerca di archeologia virtuale (pp. 136-147). L'erma di Bretschneider.
- Dell'Unto, N., Pietroni, E. & Rufa, C. (2007). La Comunicazione. In Forte, M. (Ed.) La villa di Livia, un percorso di ricerca di archeologia virtuale (pp. 217-234). L'erma di Bretschneider.
Conference contributions (18)
- Derudas, P., Dell'Unto, N., Landeschi, G. & Callieri, M. (2019). Dig it and Dig it again.
- Landeschi, G., Apel, J., Lindgren, S. & Dell'Unto, N. (2018). An exploratory use of 3D for investigating a prehistoric stratigraphic sequence. Proceedings of the 44th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, CAA 2016 Oslo, 29 March—2 April 2016.
- Landeschi, G., Dell'Unto, N., Ferdani, D., Leander Touati, A.-M. & Lindgren, S. (2015). Enhanced 3D-GIS : Documenting Insula V 1 in Pompeii. In Giligny, F., Djindjian, F., Costa,, L., Moscati, P. & Robert, S. (Eds.) CAA2014 21st Century Archaeology : concepts, methods and tools. Proceedings of the 42nd annual conference on computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology (pp. 349-360). Archaeopress.
- Bezzi, L. & Dell'Unto, N. (2013). Rilievo tridimensionale di reperti archeologici : tecniche a confronto. In Catone, F. (Ed.) Quaderni del Centro Studi Magna Grecia, Archeofoss : open source, free software e open format nei processi di ricerca archeologica. atti del VI Workshop, Napoli, 9-10 giugno 2011 (pp. 141-152), 13. Naus.
- Dell'Unto, N., Callieri, M., Dellepiane, M., Leander Touati, A.-M., Lindgren, S. & Larsson, C. (2013). Pompeii revived : Scanning Mission - insula V 1. In Earl, G., Sly, T., Chrysanthi, A., Murrieta-Flores, P., Papadopoulos, C., Romanowska, I. & Wheatley, D. (Eds.) Archaeology in the Digital Era : Papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012 (pp. 199-207). Amsterdam University Press.
- Dell'Unto, N., Wallergård, M., Dellepiane, M., Lindgren, S., Petersson, B. & Paardekooper, R. (2013). An Experiment of Integrated Technologies in Digital Archaeology : Creation of New Pipelines to Increase the Perception of Archaeological Data. In Contreras, F., Farjas, M. & Melero, J. (Eds.) CAA2010 : Fusion of Culture. Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (pp. 463-468). Archaeopress.
- Callieri, M., Dell'Unto, N., Dellepiane, M., Scopigno, R., Söderberg, B. & Larsson, L. (2011). Documentation and Interpretation of an Archeological Excavation: an experience with Dense Stereo Reconstruction tools. In Dellepiane, M., Nicolucci, F., Pena Serna, S., Rushmeier, H. & Van Gool, L. (Eds.) [Host publication title missing] (pp. 33-40). Eurographics Association.
- Forte, M., Dell'Unto, N., Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, P., Galeazzi, F., Liuzza, C. & Pescarin, S. (2010). The Virtual Museum of the Western Han Dynasty: 3D Documentation and Interpretation. In Campana, S., Forte, M. & Liuzza, C. (Eds.) Space, time, place / BAR International series (pp. 195-199), S2118. Archaeopress.
- Forte, M., Pescarin, S., Pietroni, E. & Dell'Unto, N. (2010). An integrated approach to Archaeology: From the Fieldwork to Virtual Reality Systems. In Nicolucci, F. & Hermon, S. (Eds.) “Beyond the Artifact. Digital Interpretation of the Past”, Proceedings of CAA 2004 (pp. 325-334).
- Forte, M., Pietroni, E. & Dell'Unto, N. (2008). 3D Multiuser Domain and Virtual Ecosystems for Transmission and Communication of Cultural Heritage. [Host publication title missing].
- Dell'Unto, N. & Bonini, E. (2007). Valorization of the ex-church of San Ponziano. Eva 2007 Florence : electronic imaging & the visual arts : conference, workshops, meetings, training & exhibition, 26-30 March 2007, venue, Palazzo dei Congressi, Piazza Adua 1.
- Dell'Unto, N., Di Ioia, M., Galeazzi, F., Moro, A., Pietroni, E., Vassallo, V. & Vico, L. (2007). The reconstruction of the archaeological landscape through virtual reality applications: a discussion about methodology. [Host publication title missing].
- Galeazzi, F., Di Ioia, M., Dell'Unto, N., Dettori, D. & Liscia, G. (2007). Scavo, ricostruzione e musealizzazione del sito archeologico di Santa Maria di Tergu. Sistemi informativi per l'architettura: EARCOM 07 Ancona: atti del convegno/ Atti (Alinea editrice), 45.
- Dell'Unto, N., Galeazzi, F. & Di Ioia, M. (2006). Via Flaminia project: relief and post processing data techniques. From space to place/ BAR International series, 1568.
- Forte, M. & Dell'Unto, N. (2006). Tambo Colorado Project: risultati preliminari. [Host publication title missing].
- Vico, L., Moro, A., Galeazzi, F., Di Ioia, M. & Dell'Unto, N. (2006). Integrated methodologies for data elaboration and real time: Villa of Livia (Via Flaminia project)”. [Host publication title missing].
- Pietroni, E., Pescarin, S., Forte, M. & Dell'Unto, N. (2005). The narrative approach of virtual heritage real-time applications. The reconstruction of archaeological landscapes through digital technologies/ BAR International series, 1379. Archaeopress.
- Buccellati, F., Dell'Unto, N. & Forte, M. (2003). The Mozan Urkesh Archaeological Project: an Integrated Approach of Spatial Technologies. The reconstruction of archaeological landscapes through digital technologies (BAR International series), 1151. Archaeopress.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Research portal (Lund University)
Teaching
Teaching autumn 2019
Other tasks and qualifications
- November 2017- Einar Hansen prize, for outstanding achievements in humanities.
- January 2017- Highly Cited Research in Journal of Cultural Heritage
- September 2014- Best Paper Award in the category senior researchers, international conference “From Space to Place”, Duke University, Duran, North Carolina, USA, 13-15 October 2014.
- March 2013- Lunds Studenkårs Pedagogiska pris, VT 2013.
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