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Paolo Forlin

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of History and Cultures

Academic discipline: ARCH-01/E Christian, Late Antique and Medieval Archaeology

Curriculum vitae

Books

Gerrard, C M, Forlin, P and Brown P (eds), 2021 Waiting for the end of the world? New perspectives on natural disasters in medieval Europe, Society for Medieval Archaeology, Routledge, London

Forlin, P, (in press) The Medieval Alps. Landscape, people and power in eastern Trentino, BAR Publisher, Oxford

Peer-reviewed articles

Forthcoming

Forlin, P, Petley, D, Gerrard, C M (in preparation), ‘Mapping seismic risk across medieval Europe’, for Natural Hazards

Forlin, P, Merli, C (in preparation), ‘The archaeology of a waste land. Investigating the materiality of memories, identities and narratives of the 1963 Vajont disaster’, for Contemporary Archaeology

Published

Forlin, P, Reicherter, K, Gerrard CM, Bailiff, I, Porras, A, 2024, ‘Recovering a lost seismic disaster. The destruction of El Castillejo and the discovery of the earliest historic earthquake affecting the Granada region (Spain)’, PLoS ONE 19(4): e0300549. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300549

Forlin, P. 2023, Introducing the archaeological assessment of a medieval disaster. Friuli and the 1348 Eastern Alps earthquake, Archeologia Medievale 50, 185-204

Gerrard, C M, Forlin, P, Froude, M, Petley, D, Gutiérrez, A, Treasure, E, Milek, K, Oliveira, N, 2021 ‘The archaeology of a landslide. Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences’, European Journal of Archaeology 24(3), 388-411. doi:10.1017/eaa.2021.4

Fiorin, E, Moore, J, Montgomery, J, Mariotti Lippi, M, Nowell, G, Forlin, P, 2021 ‘Combining dental calculus with isotope analysis in the Alps: New evidence from the Roman and medieval cemeteries of Lamon, Italy, Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.022.

Davis, C, Coningham, R, Acharya, K P, Kunwar, R B, Forlin, P, Weise, K, Maskey, P N, Joshi, A, Simpson, I, Toll, D, Wilkinson, S, Hughes, P, Sarhosis, V, Kumar, A and Schmid, A 2020 ‘Identifying archaeological evidence of past earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: Case-studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and past seismic events within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal)’, Journal of Seismology (2091), DOI: 10.1007/s10950-019-09890-7

Forlin, P, Valente, R and Kazmer, M 2018, ‘Assessing earthquake effects on archaeological sites using photogrammetry and 3D model analysis’, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2018.e00073

Forlin, P and Gerrard, C, 2017 ‘The archaeology of earthquakes: The application of adaptive cycles to seismically-affected communities in late medieval Europe’, Quaternary International 446, 95–108

Forlin, P, Gerrard, C and Petley D, 2016 ‘Exploring representativeness and reliability for late medieval earthquakes in Europe’, Natural Hazards 84, 1625–1636, DOI:10.1007/s11069-016-2502-y

Forlin, P, Gerrard, C and Petley D, 2015 ‘ArMedEa project: archaeology of medieval earthquakes in Europe (1000-1550 AD). First research activities’, in A M Blumetti, F Cinti, P De Martini, F Galadini, L Guerrieri, A M Michetti, D Pantosti, E Vittori (eds.), 6th International Inqua Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology, 19-24 April 2015, Pescina, Fucino Basin, Italy, Rome, 166–169

Forlin, P, 2012 ‘Airborne LiDAR data analysis within the Alpine landscapes of Trentino: a methodological approach’, PCA (Post-Classical Archaeologies) 2, 247–268

Challis, K, Forlin, P and Kincey, M, 2011, ‘A Generic Toolkit for the Visualization of Archaeological Features on Airborne LiDAR Elevation Data’, Archaeological Prospection 18, 279–289

Book chapters

Brogiolo, G P, Forlin, P, 2023 ‘Le sequenze medievali nei saggi F e G’, in M Bressan, F Ghedini, P Zanovello, L’area archeologica di via Neroniana a Montegrotto Terme (PD) 1. Dallo scavo alla valorizzazione, Padova University Press, Padova, 343-363

Pompanin, MTC, Forlin, P, Gerrard, C, 2022, ‘Introducing the RiskRes Project The Study of Historic Responses to Earthquakes in Preindustrial Europe (AD 1200-1755), in R Compatangelo-Soussignan, F Diosono, F Le Blay (eds), Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean and Beyond between Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Proceedings of Cascia (25-26 October, 2019) and Le Mans (2-3 June, 2021) Conferences. Oxford: Archaeopress; 2022, 137–152.

Forlin, P, 2021 ‘Rituals of resilience. The interpretative archaeology of post-seismic recovery in medieval Europe’, in C M Gerrard, P Forlin and P J Brown (eds), Waiting for the end of the world? New perspectives on natural disasters in medieval Europe, Society for Medieval Archaeology, Routledge, London, pp. 21-42

Forlin, P, Gerrard C M and Brown P J, 2021 ‘Medieval archaeology and natural disasters: Looking toward the future’ in C M Gerrard, P Forlin and P J Brown (eds), Waiting for the end of the world? New perspectives on natural disasters in medieval Europe,Society for Medieval Archaeology, Routledge, London, pp. 345-360

Brown, P J, Forlin, P and Gerrard, C M, 2021 ‘Researching natural disasters in the later Middle Ages’, in C M Gerrard, P Forlin and P J Brown (eds), Waiting for the end of the world? New perspectives on natural disasters in medieval Europe, Society for Medieval Archaeology, Routledge, London, pp. 1-16

Forlin, P, 2015 ’The periphery during the seventh century: the rise of a new landscape within the core of the Alps. Climate change, land use and the arrival of Lombards in the Eastern Trentino, Northern Italy (5th–7th century AD)’, in E Gnasso, E Intagliata, T MacMaster and B N Morris (eds), The long Seventh century. Continuity and discontinuity in an age of transformation, Proceedings of the 2013 Edinburgh University Seventh Century Colloquium, Edinburgh, 28-29 March 2013, Oxford, 87–106

Forlin, P 2014 ‘Paesaggi in trasformazione: insediamento longobardo, ambiente e oscillazioni climatiche nel Trentino orientale tra V e VII secolo’, in E Possenti (ed), Necropoli Longobarde in Italia. Indirizzi della ricerca e nuovi dati, Atti del Convegno Internazionale 26 - 28 settembre 2011 Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, 504–515

Forlin, P 2013, ‘Castelli della Valsugana, Val di Cembra e Altopiano di Pinè: schede (in total 39)’, in E Possenti, G Gentilini, M Cunaccia and W Landi (eds), Castra, Castelli e Domus Murate. Corpus dei siti fortificati trentini tra tardo antico e basso medioevo. Schede 1, Apsat 4, Mantova, 27–145

Forlin, P 2013, ‘Castelli e paesaggi medievali nel Trentino orientale’, in E Possenti, G Gentilini, M Cunaccia and W Landi (eds), Castra, Castelli e Domus Murate. Corpus dei siti fortificati trentini tra tardo antico e basso medioevo. Saggi. Apsat 6, Mantova, 299–309

Non-peer reviewed articles

Forlin, P, Fiorin, E, Pacitti, D, D’ Incà, C, 2020 ‘Indagini archeologiche presso la chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo di Lamon. Risultati preliminari dagli scavi 2012-2016’, Archivio Storico di Belluno Feltre e Cadore, n. 366–367, pp. 3–28.

Nuninger, L, Forlin P, Fruchart, C, Laplaige, C, Opitz, R, Favory, F, et al. 2016, Apport des données altimétriques lidar à la compréhension des zones humides. De la reconstitution des paysages à l’histoire des sociétés 10 000 ans d'archives sédimentaires en zones humides; 139–150.

Awards

2014 Award "A. Valcanover" for the best PhD thesis devoted to the study of the mountain, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice, Italy)

Organisation Of Scientific Meetings

2018 Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2018), Newcastle-Durham (UK). Session organiser:

The Flip Side Of The Coin: Resilience, Adaption And Innovation In The Wake Of Natural Disasters

2016 Society for Medieval Archaeology Annual Conference ‘Waiting for the End of the World? Perceptions of Disaster and Risk in Medieval Europe’, Oxford. Co-organiser

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