Books
Journal Articles
Neural plasticity in early potters: Shape analysis and TMS-EEG co-registration trace the rise of a new motor skill PloS one, 20(1), e0316545
Miniaci G., Forte V., Grajeski W., Saler C. 2022. Mud Figurines from Lahun: searching for an “archaeometric” social history. Egyptian Archaeology, 60:19-20.
Conati Barbaro C., Forte V., Muntoni I, Eramo G. 2021. A Multidisciplinary Approach To The Study Of Early Neolithic Pyrotechnological Structures. The case study of Portonovo (Marche, Italy), Open Archaeology, 7:1160-1175.
Amicone S., Forte V., Berthold C., Solard B., Mirković-Marić N. 2021. Playing with Fire: Exploring Late Neolithic Ceramic Pyrotechnology in the Balkans. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37:1-18.
Miniaci G., Saler C., Forte V. 2020. Object biographies and human practice: launching PROCESS. Egyptian Archaeology 57: 38-39.
Bajeot J., Caricola I., Vinciguerra V., Medeghini L., Forte V. 2020. An integrated approach based on archaeometry, use wear analysis and experimental archaeology to investigate the function of a specific type of basin diffused in the predynastic sites of Lower Egypt (4th mill. BC), Quaternary International, 555:135-149.
Forte V, Tarquini O., Botticelli M., Medeghini L. 2020. The technology of Copper Age funerary pottery from central Italy: an integrated study of compositional analyses and manufacturing traces. Archaeometry, 62/4:712-730.
Conati Barbaro C., Forte V., Rossi A. 2020. The experimental reconstruction of an Early Neolithic underground oven of Portonovo (Italy). Exarc Journal, 1: 1-8.
Forte V., Coletti F., Ciccarelli E., Lemorini C. 2019. The contribution of experimental archaeology in addressing the analysis of residues on spindle-whorls. EXARC Journal, 4:1-8.
Forte V. 2019. Skilled people or specialists? Knowledge and expertise in copper age vessels from central Italy, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 55:1-20.
Festa G., Andreani C., D’Agostino F., Forte V., Nardini M., Scherillo A., Scatigno C., Senesi R., Romano L. 2019. Sumerian pottery technology studied through neutron diffraction and chemometrics at Abu Tbeirah (Iraq). Geosciences, 9, 74:1-12.
Forte V, Cesaro, S.N. and Medeghini, L., 2018. Cooking traces on Copper Age pottery from central Italy: An integrated approach comprising use wear analysis, spectroscopic analysis and experimental archaeology.Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 18: 121-138.
Forte V, Lemorini C, 2017. Traceological analysis applied to textile implements: an assessment of the method through the case study of the 1st millennium BCE ceramic tools in central Italy. Origini XL: 165-182.
Forte V, Medeghini L, 2017. A preliminary study of ceramic pastes in the copper age pottery production of the Rome area. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 9: 209-222.
Forte, V, Medeghini. L., 2013. Capo Mannu Project – Analisi composizionali e scelte tecnologiche della ceramica preistorica nell’area del Capo Mannu (Oristano, Sardegna). Traces in Time, 3: 1-13.
Conference Proceedings
Conference proceedings
Forte V., Coletti F., Virili C., Jaja A., Lemorini C. In stampa (Forthcoming). Residues of activities: towards an analytical protocol for studying residues on textile tools. In Coletti F., Forte V., Margariti C., Spantidaki S. (Eds) Multidisciplinary approaches for the investigation of textiles and fibres in the archaeological field, 1-9, Springer.
Forte V., 2024. The incomplete chaîne opératoire: Potentials of the traceological approach applied to figurines made of unfired clay. In Miniaci G., Alù C., Saler C., Forte V. (eds.) Clay Figurines in Context: Crucibles of Egyptian, Nubia and Levantine Societies in the Middle Bronze Age (2100-1550 BC) and Beyond, 399-409, MKS, GHP.
Forte V. 2022. Use activities, wear mechanisms and residues: the use alterations variability on pottery in light of the latest research advancements. In Vukovic J, Bikic V. Pottery function and use: a diachronic perspective. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, 13-35, Belgrade.
Taranto S., Forte V., Gómez Bach A., Lemorini C., Molist Montaña M. 2021. A first assessment of technological and functional traces on late Neolithic husking trays from the near east. In Özbal R., Erdalkiran M., Tonoike Y., Neolithic pottery from Near East. Production, distribution and Use. Proceedings of the third intrnational workshop on ceramics from Late Neolithic Near East, 7-9 March 2019, 229-236, Antalya, Koç University Press.
Forte V., Nunziante Cesaro S., Medeghini 2021. Traceological Analises and Functional Interpretation: vessels used for food processing from Tor Pagnotta and Osteria del Curato-Via Cinquefrondi. In (a cura di) Damiani I., Cazzella A., Copat V. Preistoria del Cibo. L’alimentazione nella Preistoria e nella Protostoria, 6: 489-498, Studi di Preistoria e Protostoria: Firenze.
Carboni G, Celant A, Forte V, Magri D, Nunziante Cesaro S, Anzidei AP 2021. Inebriated to the afterlife: Ritual drinks in the necropolises of the Rinaldone and Gaudo Facies in the Roman Area. In (a cura di) Damiani I., Cazzella A., Copat V. Preistoria del Cibo. L’alimentazione nella Preistoria e nella Protostoria, Studi di Preistoria e Protostoria: Firenze, 6:691-698.
Forte V. 2021 Craft Identities in Copper Age Communities: a multidisciplinary approach to the pottery production of Central Italy. In: Beyries, S., Hamon, C. and Maigrot, Y. 2021. Beyond Use-Wear Traces: Going from tools to people by means of archaeological wear and residue analyses. Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 381-392.
Ricci P., Forte V. 2020. Cultura Tessile a Pompei: Intrumenta Textilia. In eds.) Bustamante-Álvarez M., Sánchez López E. H., Jiménez Ávila J.Proceedings of the VII International Symposium on Textiles and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Granada, Spain 2-4 October 2019), 333-340.
Forte V, Lemorini C. 2019. L’analisi delle tracce tecnologiche e d’uso su strumenti in ceramica per la tessitura: lo sviluppo di una metodologia di indagine applicata ai contesti del I millennio a.C. in Italia centrale, pp 69-88, sul volume Trame di Storia, Metodi e strumenti dell’archeologia sperimentale. Archeofest 2017.
Forte V. 2019. Tracce di identità: un contributo metodologico al dibattito sul concetto di facies. In (a cura di) Danckers J., Cavazzuti C., Cattani M. Facies and Culture dell’Eta’ del Bronzo Italiana?, 79-92, Brepols Publishers.
Forte V 2014. Investigating pottery technological pattern through macrowear analysis: The chalcolithic village of Maccarese (Italy). In Marreiros J., Bicho N., Gibaja Bao J. (eds.) International Conference on Use-wear analysis: Use Wear 2012, 619-629, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Book Chapters
Xhauflair H., Horne D, Forte V., Casseyas C, Bamforth M, Ballantyne R. 2024. Chapter 14. Wooden artefacts use wear. In (Eds) Knight M, Ballantyne R., Cooper A., Gibson D., Robinson Zeki I. Must Farm, Pile dwelling settlement Vol.2, Specialist Reports, 721-742, McDonald Institutes Monographs.
Gibaja J. F., Mineo M., Mazzucco N., Caruso L., Forte V., Mozota M., Margariti C, and Andersson E. 2023. Working with plant fibres: textiles, basketry, and cordage. In Mineo M, Gibaja J F, Mazzucco N. The Submerged Site Of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy). Decrypting a Neolithic Society. 83-107, Oxbow.
Forte V. 2022. Make it for break it? Assessing fragmentation of the Lahun figurines collection (Egypt, MBA II, c. 1800-1700 BC). In (Eds.) Miniaci G., Breaking images: Damage and mutilation of ancient and modern statues and figurines, Vol.2, 243-258 Oxbow.
Forte V., Medeghini L. 2022. Analisi petrografica in sezione sottile dei materiali argillosi non vascolari del sito di Oratino-La Rocca, In (ed)Copat V., Il sito della Rocca di Oratino: dieci anni di ricerche. Un’area funzionale all’aperto nell’età del Bronzo, 258-263, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Forte V. Ceramica: Analisi tecnologica delle produzioni ceramiche eneolitiche del territorio di Roma (IV-III millennio a.C.) (2020) In (a cura di) Anzidei A.P. and Carboni G.. Roma prima del Mito: Abitati, Ncropoli dal Neolitico alla prima Età dei Metalli nel territorio di Roma (VI-III millennio AC), 551-589, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Forte V., Medeghini L. (2020) Analisi petrografica e chimica delle ceramiche preistoriche del territorio di Roma (IV-III millennio a.C.). In (a cura di) Anzidei A.P. and Carboni G. Roma prima del Mito: Abitati, Necropoli dal Neolitico alla prima Età dei Metalli nel territorio di Roma (VI-III millennio AC), 545-550, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Anastasia A., Forte V., Lemorini C. 2020. Pesi e fusaiole: la tessitura nelle comunità neo-eneolitiche del territorio di Roma. In (a cura di) Anzidei A.P. and Carboni G. Roma prima del Mito: Abitati, Necropoli dal Neolitico alla prima Età dei Metalli nel territorio di Roma (VI-III millennio AC), 597-608, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Forte V., Pulitani G. 2020. Analisi tecnologica delle ceramiche decorate a stralucido della facies di Rinaldone del territorio di Roma. In (a cura di) Anzidei A.P. and Carboni G. (Eds) Roma prima del Mito: Abitati, Necropoli dal Neolitico alla prima Età dei Metalli nel territorio di Roma (VI-III millennio AC), 653-656, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Carboni G., Celant A., Forte V, Magri D., Nunziante Cesaro S., Anzidei A.P. 2020. I residui anidri contenuti nei vasi delle necropoli della Romanina e di Torre della Chiesaccia-necropoli (Roma) e la più antica attestazione di una bevanda fermentata nell’Eneolitico italiano: l’idromele. In (a cura di) Anzidei A.P. and Carboni G. Roma prima del Mito: Abitati, Necropoli dal Neolitico alla prima Età dei Metalli nel territorio di Roma (VI-III millennio AC), 711-721, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Conati Barbaro C., La Marca C., Forte V., Eramo G., Muntoni I. M., Rossi A. 2019. Firing the earth. The early Neolithic ovens of Portonovo (Marche, Italy). In (a cura di Gheorghiou D) Architecture of fire: Processes, Space and Agency of Pyrotechnologies, 16-29, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Festa G., Romano L., Forte V. 2019. Area 1Pottery – part 2 Clay, Fabrics and Firing Technology, In Romano L. – D’Agostino F. (eds), Abu Tbeirah Excavation I. Area 1 Last Phase and Building A Phase 1, 373-387, Roma: Sapienza Università Editrice.
Edited Volumes
Coletti F., Forte V., Margariti C., Spantidaki S. In stampa (Forthcoming). Introduction: Towards multidisciplinary trajectories for the study of ancient textile and fibers. In Coletti F., Forte V., Margariti C., Spantidaki S. (Eds) Multidisciplinary approaches for the investigation of textiles and fibres in the archaeological field, 1-12, Springer.
Miniaci G., Alù C., Saler C., Forte V. (eds.) 2024. Clay Figurines in Context: Crucibles of Egyptian, Nubia and Levantine Societies in the Middle Bronze Age (2100-1550 BC) and Beyond, MKS, GHP.
Forte V., Castaneda N., Romagnoli F. 2023. From Novices to Experts: Skill Development and Knowledge Transmission in Prehistory. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
Vanessa Forte, PhD, Archaeologist 