Research

Publications

2025

D. Tanasi, S. Hassam, L. Harrison, A. Fawbush, 2025, High-Resolution TLS and LiDAR Integration for the 3D Mapping of the Villa del Casale Bath Complex, Ktisis – Journal of Late Antique Housing 1, pp. 237-251.

K. Klein, S. Almeida, M. Kraft, S. Hassam, K. Kingsland, D. Calderone, P. Trapani, D. Tanasi 2025, From Tombstone to Touchscreen: Digitizing Historic Cemeteries in the Age of Public Archaeology, The Historian 87.3, pp. 255-297.

D. Cardona, D. Tanasi, N. Lercari, B. Mittler, D, Wright, D. Calderone, M. Samy, P. Trapani 2025, First-time Documentation and Digital Mapping of the Late Antique Hypogeal Site of Binġemma (Malta), Studies in Digital Heritage, in press. 

I. Baldini, P. Barresi, C. Sfameni, D. Tanasi 2025, La ripresa delle ricerche alla villa del Casale di Piazza Armerina: nuovi dati e prospettive per la storia dell’insediamento “post villam”, in M. Cavalieri, A. Castrorao Barba, C. Sfameni (eds), La villa dopo la villa - 3. Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia meridionale e nelle isole maggiori tra Tarda Antichità e Medioevo, FERVET OPVS 13, Presses universitaires de Louvain, pp. 181-206, in press.

D. Tanasi, R. Lanteri, V. Di Fiore, M. Punzo, D. Tarallo, D. Barbolla, L. De Giorgi, G. Leucci, GPR survey at the archaeological site of Heloros (Noto, Sicily), Proceedings of the 2025 IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Bergamo, Italia, 15-17 Ottobre 2025, in press.

D. Calderone, D. Tanasi, E. Greco, S. Hassam, M. Kraft, Digital Documentation and Virtual Accessibility of Prehistoric Artefacts: Case Studies from Sicilian Museums, Proceedings of the 2025 IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Bergamo, Italia, 15-17 Ottobre 2025, in press.

F. Stanco, D. Tanasi, S. Barbagallo, Modeling Memory: Ethical Reuse and AI Training with Archaeologist-Produced 3D Reconstructions, Proceedings of the 2025 IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Bergamo, Italia, 15-17 Ottobre 2025, in press.

D. Tanasi, A. Fawbush, K. Kingsland, D. Calderone, E. Scerri, N. C. Vella, H. Groucutt, High-Resolution 3D Digitization and Analysis of the Mesolithic Site of Latnija (Malta), Proceedings of the 2025 IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Bergamo, Italia, 15-17 Ottobre 2025, in press.

D. Tanasi, A. Fawbush, S. Hassam, D. Calderone, Digital Strategies for the Protection and Valorization of Prehistoric Landscapes: 3D Metrology at Cozzo del Pantano (Sicily), Proceedings of the 2025 IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Bergamo, Italia, 15-17 Ottobre 2025, in press.

C. Ingoglia, D. Tanasi, E. Cantatore, Advances in the Study of Hellenistic Pottery in the Syracusan Territory, Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period (IARPotHP) ‘Hellenistic Pottery in Context: A World of Dynamic Interactions between People and Pottery, Brussels, Belgium, 6th-9th October 2025, in press.

2024

R. Lanteri, D. Tanasi, N. Lercari, G. Jimenez Delgado, D. Calderone, P. Trapani, S. Hassam 2024, In volo sopra Eloro. Remote sensing e visualizzazione 3D per l’interpretazione del paesaggio urbano di una colonia greca di Sicilia, Archeologia Aerea 18.24, pp. 86-95.

M. Kraft, S. Hassam, P. Trapani, K. Kingsland, D. Calderone, S. Hismiogullari, D. Tanasi 2024, Memory, Commemoration and Remembrance: The Holocaust in the Digital Age, The Historian 86:1, pp. 50-85. 

D. Calderone, N. Lercari, D. Tanasi, D. Busch, R. Hom, R. Lanteri 2024, Tackling the Thorny Dilemma of Mapping Southeastern Sicily’s Coastal Archaeology Beneath Dense Mediterranean Vegetation: A Drone-based LiDAR Approach, Archaeological Prospection 32, pp. 139-158. 

D. Tanasi, K. Stroud, D. Cardona, D. Calderone, P. Trapani, F. Pirone 2024, Digital Preservation and Archaeoastronomical Insights: 3D Digitization of Megalithic Heritage in the Maltese Archipelago, Journal of Applied Geophysics 227. 

N. Lercari, D. Tanasi, T. Sonnemann, S. Hassam, D. Calderone, P. Trapani, L. Ruider, R. Lanteri 2024, Archaeology of Archaeology at Heloros: Re-interpreting the Urban Layout of a Complex Greek Settlement in Sicily using Proximal Sensing and Data Fusion, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 33. 

2023

D. Tanasi, D. Cardona, S. Hassam, K. Kingsland, M. Kraft, P. Trapani, D. Calderone, L. De Giorgi, G. Leucci 2023, Remote sensing surveying at the Abbatija tad-Dejr Catacombs (Rabat, Malta), Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 30, pp. 1-27.

D. Tanasi 2023, The afterlife of a Sicilian prehistoric cemetery: the reuse of the necropolis of Cozzo del Pantano (Sicily) in the Late Antiquity, in A. Castrorao Barba, D. Tanasi, R. Micciché (eds), Archaeology of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813069692, pp. 266-292.

59. A. Costello, K. Kingsland, B. Jones, D. Tanasi 2023, Virtualization and 3D Visualization of Historical Costume Replicas: Accessibility, Inclusivity, Virtuality, in J.-J. Rousseau, B. Kapralos (eds), Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 21–25, 2022, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13645, Springer), pp. 122–130. 

58. M. Kraft, K. Kingsland, S. Hassam, P. Trapani, D. Tanasi 2023, Virtualization of the Chiurazzi Sculpture Collection at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida), in J.-J. Rousseau, B. Kapralos (eds), Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 21–25, 2022, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13645, Springer), pp. 50-63.

57. D. Tanasi, S. Hassam, D. Calderone, P. Trapani, N. Lercari, F. Jimenez Delgado, R. Lanteri 2023, Datafication of an ancient Greek city: Multi-sensorial Remote Sensing of Heloros (Sicily), in J.-J. Rousseau, B. Kapralos (eds), Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 21–25, 2022, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13645, Springer), pp. 131-141. 

2022

D. Tanasi., D. Cardona, S. Hassam, K. Kingsland, P. Trapani, D. Calderone, L. De Giorgi, G. Leucci, Preliminary results from remote sensing surveying at the Abbattija tad-Dejr Catacombs (Rabat, Malta), Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (MetroArchaeo 2022) 19-21 October 2022, Cosenza, Italy, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, in press.

D. Tanasi, S. Hassam, P. Trapani, D. Cali, L. De Giorgi, I. Ferrari, G. Giuri, G. Leucci 2022, Preliminary results from GPR survey at the Roman villa of Caddeddi (Siracusa, Italy), Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (MetroArchaeo 2021) 20-22 October 2021, Milan, Italy, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2204, pp. 1-7.