New paper out on People and Nature

New paper out! 🎉📰🔉

The results of a cool, multi-disciplinary collaboration led by Marco Malavasi have been finally published in People and Nature!

Using point pattern analysis, we identified which habitat types did the Nuragic civilisation (Sardinia, 1700 – 580 BCE) prefer when planning their settlements in Sardinia.

We went on this adventure, challenged by different languages and methodologies, with a transdisciplinary team of ecologists and archaeologists. As a result, plant ecology provided archaeology with an improved understanding of the environmental settings and subsistence of the Nuragic civilization, while gaining a long-term perspective on human-vegetation interactions.

Here the plain language summary and here the open-access paper