UCL Institute of Archaeology

• Dottore Magistrale, MSc, PhD
• ERC Research Associate, EUROEVOL Project

Research Interests

• GIS and spatial analysis
• Quantitative and computational methods in archaeology
• Agent-based modelling
• Complex adaptive systems
• Evolutionary archaeology
• Human settlement pattern
• Hunter-gatherer archaeology

Research Directory Records

• Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL)

Collaborations

• SimulPast

Educational Background

• Dottore Magistrale, Department of Oriental History, University of Bologna: 1999-2005
• MSc GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL: 2006-2007
• PhD in Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL: 2008-2013
• Graduate School Cross-Disciplinary Training, Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL: 2009-2010

• Mannino, M. A., Thomas, K.D., Crema E.R., and Leng, M.J. (In press). A matter of taste? Mode and periodicity of marine mollusc exploitation on the Mediterranean island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Italy) during its isolation in the early Holocene, Archaeofauna.
• Crema, E.R. and Bianchi, E. (In press). Looking for patterns in the noise: non-site spatial analysis at Sebkha Kalbia (Tunisia). In Mulazzani, S. (ed.)  Le Capsien de hergla (Tunisie). Culture, environnement et économie. Frankfurt: Africa Magna Verlag.
• Bevan, A, Crema, E.R., Li, Xiuzhen, and Palmisano, A. (In press). Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions. In Bevan, A. and Lake, M. (eds.) Computational Approaches to Archaeological Space. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
• Crema, E. R. (2012). Modelling Temporal Uncertainty in Archaeological Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 19(3), 440-461
• Crema, E.R. and Nishino M. (2012). Spatio-Temporal Distributions of Middle to Late Jomon Pithouses in Oyumino, Chiba (Japan). Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 1(2)
• Lake, M.W. and Crema, E.R. (2012) The Cultural Evolution of Adaptive-Trait Diversity when Resources are Uncertain and Finite. Advances in Complex Systems, 15, 1150013(1-19).
• Crema, E.R., (2011). Aoristic Approaches and Voxel Models for Spatial Analysis, In: Erzsebet Jerem, Ferenc Redo and Vajk Szeverenyi (eds.): CAA2008. On the Road to Reconstructing the Past. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Budapest, 2-6 April 2008. Budapest, 2010, Budapest: Archaeolingua, 179-186.
• Crema, E.R., Bevan, A. and Lake, M.W. (2010). A probabilistic framework for assessing spatiotemporal point patterns in the archaeological record. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 1118-1130.
• Mulazzani, S., Boussoffara, R., Aouadi, N., Azzara, V., Belhouchet, L., Boujekben, A., Crema, E.R., Curci, A., Del Grande, C., Maini, E., Mannino, M., Mazzanti, C., Scaruffi, S.. (2008). Entre Sahara et Meditterranee. Le Peuplement de Sebkhet Halk el menjel (Tunisie Orientale) penadant l'Holocene (Campagnes 2002-2005)., Africa XXI, 189-212.
• Mulazzani, S., Boussoffara, R., Azzara, V., Belhouchet, L., Boldrin, M. Boujekben, A., Crema, E.R., Mannino, M.A., Del Grande C., Mazzanti C., Scaruffi, S.. (2008). Between the Sahara and the Mediterranean: a Study of the Middle Holocene Communities of the Sebkhet Halk al Menzel (Tunisia). The first three Campaigns 2002-2004, in Menozzi O., Di Marzio M. L., Fossataro D. (eds.) SOMA 2005 Proceedings of the IX Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Chieti (Italy), 24-26 February 2005. British Archaeological reports. International Series, n. 1793, Oxford: Archaeopress, 383-390.