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Dr Francesco Carrer

Senior Lecturer

  • Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 4455
  • Address: Armstrong Building
    Queen Victoria Road
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I received a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology from the University of Padova in 2004. I obtained a master’s degree at the same University in 2007, with a thesis on prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology. I then moved to the University of Trento in 2008 for my PhD in the Department of Humanities. Here, my research project addressed the issue of the integration of ethnoarchaeological interpretation and spatial analysis in the study the pastoral landscapes in the eastern Alps (Trentino province, Italy). Between June 2012 and May 2013 I was Post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, with a project focused on the archaeological survey and spatial analysis of prehistoric and historical sites in the uplands of San Vito di Cadore (Eastern Italian Alps). 

In June 2013 I was Marie Curie research fellow at the Department of Archaeology of the University of York. My research project (EthWAL) used archaeological and ethnoarchaeological methods to investigate how pastoral groups shaped their seasonal landscapes in the Western Italian and French Alps. Between 2015 and 2019 I was a Research Associate at the McCord Centre for Landscape of 缅北禁地. In the last four years I have been working on Historic Landscape Characterisation and GIS-based landscape analysis in Turkey (CHiLaT), and I have coordinated fieldwork projects in the Italian Alps (UPLanD and ALPES). I have also contributed to training undergraduate and postgraduate students in the use of GIS and spatial analysis for archaeological research.

My main research interests are in landscape archaeology and ethnoarchaeology, mountain archaeology, spatial analysis and computer modelling. I am specifically interested in seasonal pastoralism, from an ethnographic and an archaeological perspective, and in the development of GIS applications for analysing long-term socio-ecological dynamics.

Between 2019 and 2024 I was a NUAcT fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. My project (PLAS) aimed at assessing the long-term impact of pastoralism on marginal landscapes and environments. In order to achieve its goals, the PLAS project used a transdisciplinary methodology, combining computational modelling, palaeoecology, ethnography, GIS, landscape assessment and participatory approach. Case-studies from Italy, Turkey and the UK were selected for this project.

Area of expertise

  • Landscape archaeology
  • GIS and spatial analysis
  • Computer modelling
  • Later pre-history
  • Ethnoarchaeology

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Research

CURRENT PROJECTS

The enduring transhumance: the Morine mountain case study (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (2025-2027).

Co-PI: U. Kanjir (ZRC SAZU)

Funding: ARRS, Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency


PaTHS – Pastoral Tracks Heading South: The evolution of the droveways (tratturi) in Central-Southern Italy (2024-2026).

Funding: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022 – UKRI Horizon Europe guarantee. Fellow: F.R. Del Fattore.


PLAS - Pastoralism and Landscape Sustainability: a long-term perspective (2019-2024)

Funding: NUAcT fellowship


Combining remote sensing technologies and historic landscape characterisation to manage heritage assets at risk (2023-2024).

Funding: Royal Society, International Exchange 2022


UPLanD - Understanding the Pastoral Landscapes of the Dolomites (2016-2026)

CoIs: Dr. F. Cavulli (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Funding: Parco Nazionale Dolomiti Bellunesi (Italy)


CoI: Prof. D.E. Angelucci (University of Trento, Italy)

Funding: LEADER 4 funding, CAI "Terre Alte" small grants


PAST PROJECTS

Archaeological Investigations in the "Pra' Comun" Area - Giau Pass (San Vito di Cadore) (2019-2021)

CoIs: Dr. F. Cavulli (University of Trento, Italy), Prof. F. Fontana & Dr. D. Visentin (University of Ferrara, Italy

Funding: San Vito di Cadore City Council (Italy)


PECUS - European Landscapes of Transhumance (2019-2021)

Lead Organisation: Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain)

Funding: Erasmus - Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education


EthWAL - Ethnoarchaeology of Western Alpine upland Landscapes (2013-2015)

CoI: Dr. K. Walsh (University of York, UK)

Funding: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (FP7)


CoIs: Dr. F. Cavulli & Prof. A. Pedrotti (University of Trento, Italy), Dr. F. Fontana & D. Visentin (University of Ferrara, Italy)

Funding: San Vito di Cadore City Council (Italy)


COLLABORATIONS

CHiLaT - Cultural Heritage in Landscape: planning for development in Turkey (2016-2019)

PIs: Prof S. Turner (缅北禁地, UK), Prof E. Nurlu (Ege University, Turkey)


Round mounds of the Isle of Man (2016)

PIs: R. Crellin (University of Leicester, UK), C. Fowler (缅北禁地, UK)


Verifying the first evidence of dairy farming in the alpine region (2014-2015)

Coordinators: Dr. T. Reitmaier (Grisons Archaeological Office, Switzerland), Dr. O. Craig (University of York, UK)


"Le Vette" project (2014-2015)

Coordinators: Dr. F. Cavulli & Prof. A. Pedrotti (University of Trento, Italy), G. Fogliata (ARCA, Italy), P. Cesco Frare


Recording and analysing archaeological evidence in the uplands of San Vito di Cadore - Italy (2012-2013)

Coordinators: Prof. A. Pedrotti (University of Trento, Italy)


Director: Prof. G.P. Brogiolo (University of Padova, Italy)


Teaching

I am currently leading of the UG/PGT module Fundamentals of Digital Humanities: Computer literacy, data analysis and GIS

Publications

  • Articles

    • Croce E, Carrer F, Angelucci DE. . Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2025, 32(3), 43.
    • Cusano A, Carrer F, Russo F. . Journal of Maps 2025, 21(1), 2525922.
    • Sevara C, Carrer F, Salazar Ortiz N, Turner S. . Landscapes 2024, 25(1), 1-24.
    • Vidal-Gonzalez P, Aldred O, Carrer F, Helgason G, Juliusson AD. . Human Ecology 2024, 52, 1057-1070.
    • Sánchez-Pardo JC, Sánchez-Silva N, Kinnaird T, Turner S, Brandolini F, Carrer F, Srivastava A, López-Salas E, Otero-Vilariño C. . Environmental Archaeology 2026, 31(1), 81-99.
    • Martinelli L, Possenti E, Carrer F, Cavulli F. . Archeologia Medievale 2023, 50, 205-218.
    • Mileto S, Cavulli F, Carrer F, Ferronato E, Pecci A. . Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2023, 51, 104200.
    • Hearn KP, Carrer F. . Landscape Research 2022, 47(7), 913-935.
    • Carrer F, Kossowski TM, Wilk J, Pietrzak MB, Bivand RS. . Journal of Archaeological Science 2021, 126, 105306.
    • Ageby L, Angelucci DE, Brill D, Carrer F, Rades EF, Rethemeyer J, Bruckner H, Klasen N. . Quaternary Geochronology 2021, 66, 101212.
    • Carrer F, Veal C. . Landscape 2021, (4), 17-18.
    • Turner S, Kinnaird T, Varinlioglu G, Serifoglu TE, Koparal E, Demirciler V, Athanasoulis D, Odegard K, Crow J, Jackson M, Bolos J, Sanchez-Pardo JC, Carrer F, Turner A, Sanderson D. . Antiquity 2021, 95(381), 773-790.
    • Brandolini F, Carrer F. . Environmental Archaeology 2021, 26(5), 511-525.
    • Erdogan N, Carrer F, Ersoy Tonyaloglu E, Cavdar B, Varinlioglu G, Serifoglu TE, Jackson M, Kurtsan K, Nurlu E, Turner S. . Landscapes 2020, 21(2), 168-182.
    • Dabaut N, Carrer F. . Landscapes 2020, 21(2), 152-167.
    • Carrer F, Walsh K, Mocci F. . Human Ecology 2020, 48, 69-84.
    • Carrer F, Angelucci DE. . Landscape Research 2018, 43(6), 862-877.
    • Colonese AC, Hendy J, Lucquin A, Speller CF, Collins MJ, Carrer F, Gubler R, Kuhn M, Fischer R, Craig OE. . Scientific Reports 2017, 7(1), 6633.
    • Lancelotti C, Negre Perez J, Alcaina-Mateos J, Carrer F. . Environmental Archaeology 2017, 22(4), 354-364.
    • Carrer F. . Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2017, 24(2), 303-327.
    • Visentin D, Carrer F. . Archeologia e Calcolatori 2017, (28), 129-145.
    • Visentin D, Fontana F, Cavulli F, Carrer F, Cesco Frare P, Mondini C, Pedrotti A. . Preistoria Alpina 2016, 48, 63-68.
    • Lutterotti L, Dell'Amore F, Angelucci DE, Carrer F, Gialanella S. . Microchemical Journal 2016, 126, 423-430.
    • Carrer F, Colonese AC, Lucquin A, Petersen Guedes E, Thompson A, Walsh K, Reitmaier T, Craig OE. . PLoS ONE 2016, 11(4), e0151442.
    • Visentin D, Carrer F, Fontana F, Cavulli F, CescoFrare P, Mondini C, Pedrotti A. . Quaternary International 2015, 402, 5-14.
    • Carrer F. . Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 2015, 28(1), 3-22.
    • Angelucci D, Carrer F, Cavulli F. . European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies 2014, 4, 157-180.
    • Carrer F, Angelucci DE. . Debates de Arqueología Medieval 2013, 3, 149-166.
    • Carrer F. . Preistoria Alpina 2013, 47, 49-56.
    • Carrer F. . Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2013, 32(1), 54-62.
    • Carrer F, Tanzarella A. . Bollettino AIC 2010, 139-140, 45-62.

  • Book Chapters

    • Turner S, Nurlu E, Ersoy Tonyaloglu E, Erdogan N, Jackson M, Varinlioglu G, Serifoglu TE, Carrer F, Cavdar B, Kurtsan K, Pinar Tunali S. . In: Bülent Arıkan, Linda Olsvig-Whittaker, ed. Landscape Archaeology in the Near East: Approaches, Methods and Case Studies. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023, pp.96-109.
    • Carrer F. . In: Clark, EA; Gingerich, AM, ed. IntraSite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semi-Sedentary Peoples: Analytical approaches to reconstructing occupation history. University of Utah Press, 2022.
    • Carrer F. . In: Smith, C, ed. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Cham: Springer, 2020, pp.834-846.
    • Turner S, Shillito L-M, Carrer F. . In: P. Howard, I. Thompson, E. Waterton and M. Atha, ed. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. London, UK: Routledge, 2019, pp.155-165.
    • Carrer F, Sarson G, Baggaley A, Shukurov A, Angelucci DE. . In: Saqalli, M; Vander Linden M, ed. Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling. Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp.185-216.
    • Carrer F. . In: Biagetti, S; Lugli, F, ed. The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research. New York, NY, USA: Springer, 2016, pp.115-124.
    • Carrer F. . In: Pearce, M; Nicolis, F; Collins, JR, ed. Summer Farms: Seasonal exploitation of the Uplands from Prehistory to the Present. Equinox, 2015.
    • Carrer F. Upland sites and pastoral landscapes. New perspectives into the archaeology of pastoralism in the Alps. In: Brogiolo, GP; Angelucci, DE; Colecchia, A; Remondino, F, ed. APSAT 1. Teoria e metodi della ricerca sui paesaggi d'altura. Mantova: SAP, 2012, pp.101-116.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

    • Carrer F, Cavulli F. Distanze euclidee e superfici di costo in ambiente montano: applicazione di Grass e R a diversa scala in ambito trentino. In: ARCHEOFOSS. Open Source, Free Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica. Atti del VI Workshop. 2012, Napoli: Naus Editoria.