Dr. Giacomo Bilotti
Giacomo Bilotti’s research interests lie in computational archaeology, with a particular focus on the application of statistical methods, including spatial statistics. He obtained his PhD from Kiel University (Germany) in 2024, with a thesis on demographic patterns in prehistoric northern Europe. Prior to his PhD, he studied archaeology at the University of Padova (Italy), where he earned his Master’s degree in 2019 and his Bachelor’s degree in 2017.
He is currently holding a postdoctoral position at Kiel University within the Collaborative Research Centre “Scales of Transformation: Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies” and the Excellence Cluster “ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies.”
Key publications:- Bilotti, G. 2024. Demographic patterns in Hyllie Mosse (Scania, Sweden): Estimating absolute population between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 43(4). DOI:10.1111/ojoa.12309
- Bilotti, G., Kempf, M., Morillo Leon, J.M. 2024. Modelling land and water based movement corridors in the Western Mediterranean: a Least Cost Path analysis from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age ivory records. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16, 122. DOI:10.1007/s12520-024-02029-x
- Bilotti, G., Kempf, M., Oksanen, E., Scholtus, L., Nakoinz, O., 2024. Point Pattern Analysis (PPA) as a Tool for Reproducible Archaeological Site Distribution Analyses and Location Processes in Early Iron Age South West Germany. PLoS One 19(3): e0297931. DOI:journal.pone.0297931
- Bilotti, G., 2023. Balancing between biases and interpretation. A predictive model of prehistoric Scania, Sweden, in Citter, C., Sotgia, A. (eds.), Modelling the Landscape. From Prediction to Postdiction. Proceedings of the International Session at 7th Landscape Archaeology Conference (Iași, 10-15 September 2022). Archeologia e Calcolatori 34, 225–236. DOI:10.19282/ac.34.1.2023.25
- Bilotti, G., Campeggi, M. 2021 The use of space in Late Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia: Assessment of activity patterns at Tepe Gawra XII through statistical analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38, 103077. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103077
Books by Giacomo Bilotti
Population dynamics and land-use patterns in the southwestern Baltic region during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age
Giacomo Bilotti | Forthcoming
This work aims to study population dynamics and land-use patterns in the South-Western Baltic region during the Neolithic and Bronze Age (4100 to 500 BCE). Understanding demography is essential for comprehending socio-cultural transformations, as demographic…
