| 1 |
Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia
Morten E. Allentoft et al. · Nature
Open access |
9 Jun 2015 |
1,663 |
| 2 |
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Íñigo Olalde et al. · Nature
Open access144 authors |
21 Feb 2018 |
787 |
| 3 |
The origin of early Acheulean expansion in Europe 700 ka ago: new findings at Notarchirico (Italy)
Marie‐Hélène Moncel et al. · Scientific Reports
Open access |
14 Aug 2020 |
250 |
| 4 |
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
Stefano Benazzi, Viviane Slon, Sahra Talamo et al. · Science
Open access |
24 Apr 2015 |
191 |
| 5 |
Characterisation of archaeological mortars from Pompeii (Campania, Italy) and identification of construction phases by compositional data analysis
Domenico Miriello, Donatella Barca, Andrea Bloise et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science
|
3 Apr 2010 |
177 |
| 6 |
Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs
Andrea Cau, Vincent Beyrand, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten et al. · Nature
|
Dec 2017 |
176 |
| 7 |
The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean
Daniel de Lima Ruas Fernandes et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution
Open access |
24 Feb 2020 |
162 |
| 8 |
An Ochered Fossil Marine Shell From the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy
Marco Peresani, Marian Vanhaeren, Ermanno Quaggiotto et al. · PLoS ONE
Open access |
10 Jul 2013 |
153 |
| 9 |
Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution
Arthur Kocher et al. · Science
Open access170 authors |
8 Oct 2021 |
133 |
| 10 |
5300 years ago, the Ice Man used natural laxatives and antibiotics
Luigi Capasso · The Lancet
Open access |
Dec 1998 |
120 |
| 11 |
The evolution of modern human behavior in East Asia: Current perspectives
Christopher J. Norton, Jennie J.H. Jin · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
|
Nov 2009 |
110 |
| 12 |
Early Levallois core technology between Marine Isotope Stage 12 and 9 in Western Europe
Marie‐Hélène Moncel, Nick Ashton, Marta Arzarello et al. · Journal of Human Evolution
Open access |
Feb 2020 |
104 |
| 13 |
Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape
Anna Maria Mercuri et al. · Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Open access |
Aug 2014 |
104 |
| 14 |
Climate change versus land management in the Po Plain (Northern Italy) during the Bronze Age: New insights from the VP/VG sequence of the Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio
Mauro Cremaschi, Anna Maria Mercuri, Paola Torri et al. · Quaternary Science Reviews
Open access |
21 Aug 2015 |
94 |
| 15 |
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF WATERLOGGED ARCHAEOLOGICAL WOOD: THE THREE ROMAN SHIPS FOUND IN NAPLES (ITALY)*
C. Capretti, Nicola Macchioni, Benedetto Pizzo et al. · Archaeometry
|
16 Feb 2008 |
92 |
| 16 |
Origin and Diet of the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily)
Marcello A. Mannino, Giulio Catalano, Sahra Talamo et al. · PLoS ONE
Open access |
28 Nov 2012 |
92 |
| 17 |
Remote-sensing hyperspectral imaging for applications in archaeological areas: Non-invasive investigations on wall paintings and on mural inscriptions in the Pompeii site
Costanza Cucci, Marcello Picollo, Leandro Chiarantini et al. · Microchemical Journal
|
3 Jun 2020 |
90 |
| 18 |
Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25000 years bp)
Biancamaria Aranguren, Roberto Becattini, Marta Mariotti Lippi et al. · Antiquity
|
Dec 2007 |
90 |
| 19 |
Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility
Margaret L. Antonio et al. · eLife
Open access |
12 Dec 2023 |
79 |
| 20 |
Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Mediterranean coastal environments: an isotopic study of the diets of the earliest directly-dated humans from Sicily
Marcello A. Mannino, Rosaria Di Salvo, Vittoria Schimmenti et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science
Open access |
29 Jul 2011 |
78 |
| 21 |
Luxury food and ornamental plants at the 15th century a.d. Renaissance court of the Este family (Ferrara, northern Italy)
Giovanna Bosi, Anna Maria Mercuri, Chiara Guarnieri et al. · Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Open access |
16 Jun 2009 |
76 |
| 22 |
Brucellosis at Herculaneum (79AD)
Luigi Capasso · International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
|
Sep 1999 |
75 |
| 23 |
Complete mapping of the tattoos of the 5300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman
Marco Samadelli, Marcello Melis, Matteo Miccoli et al. · Journal of Cultural Heritage
|
20 Jan 2015 |
75 |
| 24 |
Stuck to the shore? Investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility and territoriality in a Mediterranean coastal landscape through isotope analyses on marine mollusc shell carbonates and human bone collagen
Marcello A. Mannino, Kenneth David Thomas, Melanie J. Leng et al. · Quaternary International
Open access |
26 Jun 2011 |
74 |
| 25 |
Homo cepranensis sp. nov. and the evolution of African-European Middle Pleistocene hominids
Francesco Mallegni, Emiliano Carnieri, Michelangelo Bisconti et al. · Comptes Rendus Palevol
Open access |
Mar 2003 |
73 |
| 26 |
New insights into the Early Neolithic economy and management of animals in Southern and Central Europe revealed using lipid residue analyses of pottery vessels
M. Salque, Giovanna Radi, Antonio Tagliacozzo et al. · Anthropozoologica
|
Dec 2012 |
72 |
| 27 |
Alpha and lineage C betaCoV infections in Italian bats
Paola De Benedictis, Sabrina Marciano, Dino Scaravelli et al. · Virus Genes
Open access |
15 Nov 2013 |
70 |
| 28 |
The Afragola settlement near Vesuvius, Italy: The destruction and abandonment of a Bronze Age village revealed by archaeology, volcanology and rock-magnetism
Mauro Antonio Di Vito, Elena Zanella, Lucia Gurioli et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters
|
20 Dec 2008 |
68 |
| 29 |
The Iceman’s Last Meal Consisted of Fat, Wild Meat, and Cereals
Frank Maixner et al. · Current Biology
Open access |
Jul 2018 |
64 |
| 30 |
Modelling the earliest north-western dispersal of Mediterranean Impressed Wares: new dates and Bayesian chronological model
Didier Binder et al. · Documenta Praehistorica
Open access |
27 Dec 2017 |
62 |
| 31 |
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of archaeological findings with calibration-free inverse method: Comparison with classical laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and conventional techniques
R. Gaudiuso, Marcella Dell’Aglio, Olga De Pascale et al. · Analytica Chimica Acta
|
15 Jan 2014 |
62 |
| 32 |
Entangled Objects and Hybrid Practices
Carlo Tronchetti, Peter van Dommelen · Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
|
7 Jul 2006 |
61 |
| 33 |
High-resolution dietary reconstruction of victims of the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum by compound-specific isotope analysis
Silvia Soncin, Helen Marie Talbot, Ricardo Fernandes et al. · Science Advances
Open access |
25 Aug 2021 |
60 |
| 34 |
Ground movements and sea level changes in urban areas: 5000 years of geological and archaeological record from Naples (Southern Italy)
Aldo Cinque, Giolinda Irollo, Paola Romano et al. · Quaternary International
|
12 Jul 2010 |
59 |
| 35 |
Non-destructive characterization of Della Robbia sculptures at the Bargello museum in Florence by the combined use of PIXE and XRF portable systems
Giuseppe C. Pappalardo, Eleani Maria da Costa, Carmelo Marchetta et al. · Journal of Cultural Heritage
Open access |
Apr 2004 |
58 |
| 36 |
Wild cats and cut marks: Exploitation of Felis silvestris in the Mesolithic of Galgenbühel/Dos de la Forca (South Tyrol, Italy)
Jacopo Crezzini, Francesco Boschin, Paolo Boscato et al. · Quaternary International
|
16 Jan 2014 |
58 |
| 37 |
Mortality in Herculaneum before volcanic eruption in 79 AD
Luigi Capasso, Luigi Capasso, Lorenzo Capasso et al. · The Lancet
Open access |
Nov 1999 |
56 |
| 38 |
New data on historical relative sea level movements in Pozzuoli, phlaegrean fields, Southern Italy
Ch. Morhange, Michel Bourcier, Jacques Laborel et al. · Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part A Solid Earth and Geodesy
|
1999 |
56 |
| 39 |
Non-invasive spatial tissue discrimination in ancient mummies and bones in situ by portable nuclear magnetic resonance
Frank Jakobus Rühli, Thomas Böni, Juan Perlo et al. · Journal of Cultural Heritage
|
Jul 2007 |
56 |
| 40 |
Climate-driven environmental changes around 8,200 years ago favoured increases in cetacean strandings and Mediterranean hunter-gatherers exploited them
Marcello A. Mannino, Sahra Talamo, Antonio Tagliacozzo et al. · Scientific Reports
Open access |
17 Nov 2015 |
55 |
| 41 |
Thermal analysis and archaeological chronology: The ancient mortars of the site of Baradello (Como, Italy)
Cristina Corti, Laura Rampazzi, Roberto Bugini et al. · Thermochimica Acta
Open access |
Oct 2013 |
54 |
| 42 |
New compositional data on ancient mortars and plasters from Pompeii (Campania – Southern Italy): Archaeometric results and considerations about their time evolution
Domenico Miriello, Andrea Bloise, Gino Mirocle Crisci et al. · Materials Characterization
|
2 Oct 2018 |
52 |
| 43 |
Long-distance connections in the Copper Age: New evidence from the Alpine Iceman’s copper axe
Gilberto Artioli, Ivana Angelini, Günther Kaufmann et al. · PLoS ONE
Open access |
5 Jul 2017 |
52 |
| 44 |
Minoan religious influence in the Aegean: the case of Kythera
Yannis Sakellarakis · The Annual of the British School at Athens
|
Nov 1996 |
52 |
| 45 |
Can Commercial Low-Cost Drones and Open-Source GIS Technologies Be Suitable for Semi-Automatic Weed Mapping for Smart Farming? A Case Study in NE Italy
Pietro Mattivi, Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo, Nebojša Nikolić et al. · Remote Sensing
Open access |
11 May 2021 |
51 |
| 46 |
New light on cranial surgery in ancient Rome
Renato Mariani‐Costantini, Paola Catalano, Francesco Di Gennaro et al. · The Lancet
|
2000 |
51 |
| 47 |
The 472 AD Pollena eruption of Somma-Vesuvius (Italy) and its environmental impact at the end of the Roman Empire
Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, Danilo M. Palladino, Giuseppe Vecchio et al. · Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
|
Mar 2002 |
50 |
| 48 |
3D documentation and monitoring of the experimental cleaning operations in the underwater archaeological site of Baia (Italy)
Fabio Bruno, Alessandro Gallo, Francesco De Filippo et al.
Conference paper |
Oct 2013 |
50 |
| 49 |
Non-Destructive Multi-Analytical Approach to Study the Pigments of Wall Painting Fragments Reused in Mortars from the Archaeological Site of Pompeii (Italy)
Domenico Miriello, Andrea Bloise, Gino Mirocle Crisci et al. · Minerals
Open access |
27 Mar 2018 |
46 |
| 50 |
Intersection of exogenous, endogenous and anthropogenic factors in the Holocene landscape: A study of the Naples coastline during the last 6000 years
Paola Romano, Mauro Antonio Di Vito, Daniela Giampaola et al. · Quaternary International
|
28 Mar 2013 |
46 |