Researcher Profile
Cristiano Vignola is a researcher in Palaeobotany and Palynology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He deals with the reconstruction of past vegetation and climate from natural and human deposits. The focus of his research is the Mediterranean area during the Holocene. He outlines past interaction between human societies and the environment by studying plant macroremains (wood, seeds, fruits), providing insights into the use of plants for different purposes. By analysing plant microremains (pollen and other palynomorphs), he allows to depict past environmental conditions, as well as landscape evolution and drivers of change when considering ecological and anthropogenic pollen indicators. He also applies the study of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to plant remains recovered from archaeological sites to reconstruct palaeoclimate and ancient agricultural practices.
List of Relevant Publications:
Reconstructing post-crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: a high-resolution 1st-millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye). Journal of Quaternary Science (accepted)
Authors
Vignola C, Doğan M, Eastwood W, Haldon J, Masi A, Roberts N, Şenkul Ç, Izdebski A.
2025. Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia. Journal of Quaternary Science 40(3): 459-480.
Authors
Masci L, Liakopoulos GC, Gromig R, Kolovos E, Kouli K, Moros M, Sadori L, Sarantis A, Slavin P, Sypiański J, Vidras G, Vignola C, Wagner B, Izdebski I, Masi A.
2022. Mid-late Holocene vegetation history of the Argive Plain (Peloponnese, Greece) as inferred from a pollen record from ancient Lake Lerna. PLOS ONE 17: e0271548.
Authors
Vignola C, Hättestrand M, Bonnier A, Finné M, Izdebski A, Katrantsiotis C, Kouli K, Liakopoulos GC, Norström E, Papadaki M, Strandberg NA, Weiberg E, Masi A.
2021. The pollen record from Grotta Romanelli (Apulia, Italy): New insight for the Late Pleistocene Mediterranean vegetation and plant use. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 297: 104577.
Authors
Russo Ermolli E, Masi A, Vignola C, Di Lorenzo H, Masci L, Bona F, Forti L, Lembo G, Mazzini I, Mecozzi B, Muttillo B, Pieruccini P, Sardella R, Sadori L.