ArcheoFOSS 2025
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We are very happy to publish the definitive conference programme of ArcheoFOSS 2025. The conference will be held in Busto Arsizio on 27-28 November 2025.

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POLO DIDATTICO MOLINI MARZOLI
3th floor room D
Via Alberto da Giussano 12
21052 Busto Arsizio (Varese)

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Programme

27 November 2025

  • 08:30
    Registration
  • 09:00
    Opening

09:15

Panel: Casting the Net Wide: Open Network Approaches in Italian Archaeology

Chair and intro by Marco Moderato; Dario Nincheri.

  • 09:20
    Funerary Rituals as Semantic Networks: a FLOS-Based Virtual Archaeology Approach. Examples from Villanovan Contexts in the Po Valley
    Eliana Pillitteri - Sapienza Università di Roma; Giacomo Mancuso CNR – ISPC.
  • 09:35
    Networks of Memory: Open FOSS Workflows for the Archaic Necropolis of Taranto
    Raffaele Rizzo - University of Salento.
  • 09:50
    Tracing Connections: Network Modelling of Early Neolithic Obsidian Distribution in Italy
    Niccolo Mazzucco - DCFS, University of Pisa, Italy; Giada Pirrone - DCFS, University of Pisa, Italy; Luca Biancalani Freelance Archaeologist; Barbara Melosu - University of Cagliari; Simone Sani - DCFS, University of Pisa, Italy; Claudia Finocchiaro - DCFS, University of Pisa, Italy; Riccardo Cicilloni - University of Cagliari; Elisabetta Starnini - DCFS, University of Pisa, Italy.
  • 10:05
    Lavoro e sepoltura nella Roma imperiale: analisi di rete di mestieri, luoghi di lavoro e spazi funerari
    Eleonora Iacopini - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
  • 10:20
    Networking the Empire: Open and FAIR Approaches to Roman Samian Ware Trade Analysis
    Allard W. Mees - Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) (Mainz, Germany); Florian Thiery - Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) (Mainz, Germany).
  • 10:35
    Coffee break
  • 11:00
    Reti sociali e romanizzazione: network analysis dell’epigrafia peligna
    Antonio Merola - Università degli Studi “Aldo Moro” di Bari.
  • 11:15
    Stone Networks: A Computational Analysis of the Lunigiana Statue Stele
    Luca Biancalani - Independent researcher; Dario Nincheri - Escuela Doctoral EIDEMAR de la Universidad de Cádiz, Historia y Arqueología Marítimas, Spain.
  • 11:30
    Network Analysis in the Interpretation of Materials and Stratigraphy from the site of al-Wu’ayra in Jordan
    Gianluca Carputo - Scuola di specializzazione in beni archeologici, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
  • 11:45
    SHARED: Semantic-based Heterogeneous Archive for Reusable Exchangeable Data in archaeology and archaeometry
    Lorena Bravi - PhD Student in Heritage Science, Sapienza University of Rome.
  • 12:00
    Saints, Ancestors and Ashes: Open Semantic Networks from Holy Wells and Ogham Inscriptions to the Campanian Ignimbrite
    Florian Thiery - Research Squrrel Engineers Network (Mainz, Germany), Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) (Mainz, Germany); Fiona Schenk - Research Squrrel Engineers Network (Mainz, Germany), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Mainz, Germany);
  • 12:15
    Discussion
  • 12:30
    Lunch break

13:45 Talk: Vue.js made easy: cos’è e perché dovresti usarlo

Matteo Bilotta Associazione LabDig3A Academy.

14:00

Panel: FLOS and organic remains in archaeological context

Chair and intro by Alessandra Mazzucchi; Maurizio Marinato.

  • 14:05
    Using Weasis software to study radiographs of taphonomic fractures on human bones
    Agnese Martinelli - Università degli Studi di Milano; Maurizio Marinato - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Padova; Alessandra Mazzucchi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 14:20
    FLOS in bioanthropology: a preliminary tracking of state of art
    Alessandra Mazzucchi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberto Taglioretti - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Maurizio Marinato - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Padova.
  • 14:35
    A Proof-of-Concept Study on Quantitative 3D Analysis of Point Cloud Data in Anthropology: the Case of Mandibular Teeth
    Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alex Fontana - MUSE – Museum of Science; Mirko Mattia - LABANOF - Anthropological and Odontological Lab of the State University of Milan, MUSA - The university museum of anthropological, medical and forensic sciences for human rights; Marta Mondellini - LABANOF - Anthropological and Odontological Lab of the State University of Milan, MUSA - The university museum of anthropological, medical and forensic sciences for human rights; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Umberto Tecchiati - PrEcLab – Laboratory of Prehistory and Prehistoric Ecology, University “La Statale” of Milan; Alessandra Mazzucchi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 14:50
    Discussion

15:05

Panel: FLOS applications in bioanthropology and linked disciplines: case reports

Chair and intro by Roberta Fusco; Chiara Tesi.

  • 15:10
    MAPOD4D per la valorizzazione e la divulgazione del materiale osteologico umano, dallo scavo al modello: il caso di Lovere (BG)
    Gloria Valbusa - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Filippo Di Marco - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Maria Fortunati - già Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Bergamo e Brescia; Alessandra Mazzucchi - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberto Taglioretti - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 15:25
    Digital Twins of Human Vertebrae: A Case Study on a FLOS-driven Workflow for Research and Dissemination
    Gloria Valbusa - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Bianca Mantovani Banella - Università degli Studi di Milano; Roberto Taglioretti - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS;
  • 15:40
    A new 3D dissemination perspective of human burned bones: the case of CSPAV-D1 urn from Golasecca culture
    Alessandra Mazzucchi - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Filippo Di Marco - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Davide Carraro - University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Physics “Giuseppe Occhialini”; Lucina Caramella - Centro Studi Preistorici e Archeologici di Varese; Akylina Taglioretti - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberto Taglioretti - Associazione LabDig 3A Academy, Associazione Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 15:55
    Discussion
  • 16:10
    Coffee break

16:30

Panel: Managing 3D Data from the Field: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions

Chair and intro by Cristiano Putzolu; Marco Cavalazzi.

  • 16:35
    Open 3D Archaeology: Web-Based Visualization and Knowledge Sharing for Excavation Data
    Andrea Dennis Favullo - LabDig 3A Academy; Francesco Alfinito - Università di Bologna; Carlo Bicchierai - Università di Bologna; Jacopo Celani - Università della Tuscia; Matteo Orsi - LabDig 3A Academy association; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig 3A Academy association; Marco Cavalazzi - Università di Bologna.
  • 16:50
    Beta RTK SLAM and SfM point cloud comparison: a test on the field
    Claudia De Luca - Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà (DiSCi); Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Cristiano Putzolu - Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà (DiSCi).
  • 17:05
    Preliminary evaluation of FLOS and Proprietary Software for Archaeological SfM Processing: A Case Study from Arsago Seprio
    Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Amedeo De Lisi - University of Milan – Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage; _Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Elena Fontana - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Cristiano Brandolini - Civic Archaeological and Paleontological Museum of Arsago Seprio; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Emanuele Intagliata - University of Milan – Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage.
  • 17:20
    Point cloud acquisition in extreme environments: a preliminary evaluation. A preliminary study of a crypt without light
    Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Marta Licata - Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Roberta Fusco - Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Nicol Rossetti - Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Arianna Vanni - Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria; Francesca Garanzini - Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Biella, Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola e Vercelli; Giovanni Mastrocco - MG Geomatics di Mastrorocco Giovanni; Lisa Afeltra - Urania di Lisa Afeltra; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Cristiano Putzolu - University of Bologna - Department of History and Cultures (DiSCi).
  • 17:35
    Una Metodologia FAIR e una Cupola Portatile per il Reflectance Transformation Imaging: Il Caso della Documentazione Digitale della Rupe Magna
    Hüseyin Erdoğan - Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà; Federico Zoni - Università di Bergamo – Dipartimento di Lettere, Filosofia, Comunicazione; Valentina Presutti - Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne; Cristiano Putzolu - Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà.
  • 17:50
    Tra micro-rilievo e analisi numismatica: un approccio digitale per l’identificazione di tipi monetali
    Elena Molaioni - Sapienza Università di Roma.
  • 18:05
    Discussion

28 November 2025

09:00

Panel: Integrated FLOS Ecosystems for Archaeology: from Sensor Co-designing and Data Analysis to Immersive Storytelling

Chair and intro by Matteo Orsi; Roberto Taglioretti.

  • 09:05
    A FLOSS Framework for Archaeological Digital Twins: The MAPOD4D Methodology
    Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 09:20
    Immersive storytelling to show and talk about results: using MAPOD4D as presentation in archeology convention
    Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Cristiano Putzolu - Department of History and Cultures (DISCI), Alma Mater Studiorum - Università degli Studi di Bologna.
  • 09:35
    From the testing ground to hardware design: a scientific experiment for cultural heritage enhanced with a MAPOD4D Metaverse
    Davide Carraro - University of Milano-Bicocca - Department of Physics “Giuseppe Occhialini”; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 09:50
    Workflow integrato FLOS e Low-Cost per garantire l’integrità colorimetrica della digitalizzazione delle vertebre umane
    Bianca Mantovani - Università degli Studi di Milano; Gloria Valbusa - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberto Taglioretti - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - Associazione LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 10:05
    Emphasizing bone fractures to valorize archaeological remains: a FLOS pipeline for bone discontinuity enhancement and promotion
    Agnese Martinelli - Università degli Studi di Milano; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Maurizio Marinato - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Padova; Alexandra Chavarria Arnau - Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Padova; Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 10:20
    Coffee break
  • 10:45
    From CT scanning to immersive storytelling: a FLOS-based workflow for the valorization of a Roman funerary urn from Crescentino (VC)
    Arianna Vanni - Deprtment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Department of Biotechnology and Life Science; Roberto Taglioretti LabDig 3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberta Fusco - Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of Insubria; Chiara Tesi - Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of Insubria; Nicol Rossetti - Deprtment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Department of Biotechnology and Life Science; Carmelo Messina - Radiology Department, ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan; Matteo Orsi - LabDig 3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - LabDig 3A Academy Association; Claudia De Luca - Department of History Cultures Civilizations - Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna; Francesca Garanzini - Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Biella, Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola e Vercelli; Marta Licata - Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, University of Insubria.
  • 11:00
    An Integrated FLOS Workflow for the Analysis and Storytelling of Inscribed Crania
    Claudia De Luca - Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà (DiSCi); Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Gloria Valbusa - LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy, Osteoarc APS ETS; Nadja Cholidis - Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin; Barbara Helwing - Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin; Margerita Andrea Valsecchi Gillmeister - Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin; Cristiano Putzolu - University of Bologna - Department of History and Cultures (DiSCi).
  • 11:15
    Metodologie di modifica Free Libre and Open Source (FLOS) di dispositivi di acquisizione per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale: il caso del progetto MAPOD4D
    Petra Ferrario - Università degli studi di Milano; Roberto Taglioretti - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Alessandra Mazzucchi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS; Matteo Orsi - LabDig3A Academy Association, Osteoarc APS ETS.
  • 11:30
    Discussion

11:45

Panel: Miscelaneus

Chair and intro by Gloria Valbusa; Matteo Orsi.

  • 11:50
    Cultural Heritage acquisition: comparing Gaussian Splatting with other state of the art technologies
    Simone Pio Barbagallo - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania; Giovanni Gallo - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania; Filippo Stanco Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania.
  • 12:05
    Analisi di dati LiDAR con FLOSS per l’archeologia
    Stefano De Nisi - Università del Salento.
  • 12:20
    TRACC (Traverse Adjustment for Compensated Coordinates): an open-source approach
    Enrico Auriemma – Sapienza Università di Roma.
  • 12:35
    Discussion
  • 12:50 lunch break

14:05 Talk: Intra-site spatial analysis in archaeology: new methods and some applications in R

Francesco Carrer - Newcastle University.

14:20

Panel: Back to Predictive Modelling in Landscape Archaeology: GIS-Based Geospatial and Geostatistical Analyses for Site Identification

Chair and intro by Cristiano Putzolu; Teodora Santandrea.

  • 14:25
    Recent developments in probabilistic spatial modelling of archaeological potential
    Francesco Carrer - Newcastle University.
  • 14:40
    Are archaeological data suitable for geostatistical analysis? Comparing the outcomes of two inductive predictive models
    Enrico Croce - Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali.
  • 14:55
    Sale, lana e Dei: il culto di Ercole lungo le vie della transumanza nell’area picena
    Bicchierai Carlo - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna (IT); Zanotti Erik - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna (IT), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (FR).
  • 15:10
    From Pathways to Probabilities: Refining Predictive Modelling in the Bronze Age Apennines
    Jorge Calvelo Álvarez - Independent Researcher; Erik Zanotti - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (FR), EUR ArChal.
  • 15:25
    Mapping Hilltop Sites through Integrated Spatial, Morphometric, and Remote Sensing Analyses: a GIS-Based Open-Source Approach
    Teodora Santandrea - University of Aberdeen, Interdisciplinary Institute.
  • 15:40
    Discussion
  • 15:55
    Coffee break

16:20

Panel: Intelligenza Artificiale e Coding per l’Archeologia dell’Architettura: nuove metodologie di analisi degli elevati

Chair and intro by Andrea Fiorini.

  • 16:25
    Intelligenza artificiale applicata all’archeologia dell’architettura: soluzioni per la raccolta e l’analisi dei dati
    Andrea Fiorini - Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università di Bologna.
  • 16:40
    TagLab per l’archeologia dell’architettura: segmentazione, annotazione e analisi AI assisted
    Filippo Sala - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Industriale; Marco Callieri - Visual Computing Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy; Anna De Falco - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Industriale; Gabriele Gattiglia - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere; Quirino Saraceni - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica.
  • 16:55
    Northern N-AI-ve: Merging AI in the study of the Northern Nave of the Holy Sepulchre
    Cecilia Romagnoli - PhD Student, Politecnico of Turin; Mattia D’Amico - PhD Student, Sapienza University of Rome; Violetta Mattia - Research Fellow, Sapienza University of Rome.
  • 17:10
    Discussion
  • 17:25
    Final discussion and conclusion
  • 18:00
    Closing