Alessandro Aleo
Guest researcher
- Name
- Dr. A. Aleo MA
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- a.aleo@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9769-2108
Alessandro Aleo is a PhD candidate at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology.
More information about Alessandro Aleo
Office days
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Research
Alessandro is currently a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology and Leiden University (NL). His research is part of the ERC project “Ancient Adhesives: A Window on Prehistoric Technological Complexity”. The project aims to create the first reliable method to compare technological and cognitive complexity in the deep past.
His research project focuses on recreating the life history of (pre)historic adhesives and their tools. The purpose of the analyses is to identify how past human groups manufactured, used and discarded glues, how they dealt with the nature of the different materials, with their mechanical proprieties and with the level of technical ability required for their transformation. The analyses will provide elements for further discussing cultural innovations among past hunter-gatherers.
Curriculum vitae
Alessandro Aleo obtained his master's degree in 2016 in "Quaternary, prehistory and archaeology" at the University of Ferrara (IT). He joined the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University in 2019 for a PhD in the ERC project "Ancient Adhesives: a window on prehistoric technological complexity".
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Archaeology
- World Archaeology
- Human Origins
Contact
- Dusseldorp G.L., Harderwijk M. van, Roussel M.B. & Aleo A. (2025), Experimental evidence for the efficacy of transversal hafting of backed segments as arrowheads, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67: 105365.
- Aleo A., Kozowyk P.R.B., Baron L.I., Gijn A.L. van & Langejans G.H.J. (2025), Correction: The dynamic lives of osseous points from Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Doggerland: a detailed functional study of barbed and unbarbed points from the Dutch North Sea, PLoS ONE 20(2): e0319341.
- Dusseldorp G.L., Harderwijk M. van, Roussel M. & Aleo A. (2025), Experimental evidence for the efficacy of transversal hafting of backed segments as arrowheads, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67: 105365.
- Harderwijk M. van, Aleo A. & Dusseldorp G.L. (2024), Piercing wounds or blunt force trauma: testing the efficacy of different hafting configurations. ESHE, Zagreb. 11 September 2024 - 15 September 2024. [conference poster].
- Chasan Rivka Veall Margaret-Ashley Baron Liliana Iwona Aleo Alessandro Kozowyk Paul R. B. Langejans Geeske H. J. (2024), Podocarpaceae and Cupressaceae: A tale of two conifers and ancient adhesives production in South Africa, PLoS ONE 19(11): e0306402.
- Aleo Alessandro Jerardino Antonieta Chasan Rivka Despotopoulou Myrto Ngan-Tillard Dominique J. M. Hendrikx Ruud W. A. Langejans Geeske H. J. (2024), A multi-analytical approach reveals flexible compound adhesive technology at Steenbokfontein Cave, Western Cape, Journal of Archaeological Science 167: 105997.
- Fajardo Sebastian Zeekaf Jelte van Andel Tinde Maombe Christabel Nyambe Terry Mudenda George Aleo Alessandro Kayuni Martha Nchimunya Langejans Geeske H. J. (2024), Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 74: 101586.
- Spithoven-Stikkelorum M., Dekker J. & Aleo A. (2024), What points can tell. Artefact biographies of barbed bone and antler points from Mesolithic Doggerland. In: Verbaas A., Langejans G., Little A. & Chan B. (Eds.), Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond: Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 52. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 141-156.
- Aleo Alessandro (2023), Comparing the Formation and Characteristics of Use-Wear Traces on Flint, Chert, Dolerite and Quartz, Lithic Technology 48(2): 130-148 ( 2103297).
- Aleo Alessandro Kozowyk Paul R. B. Baron Liliana I. van Gijn Annelou Langejans Geeske H. J. (2023), The dynamic lives of osseous points from Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Doggerland: A detailed functional study of barbed and unbarbed points from the Dutch North Sea, PLoS ONE 18(8): e0288629.
- Aleo Alessandro Duches Rossella Falcucci Armando Rots Veerle Peresani Marco (2021), Scraping hide in the early Upper Paleolithic: Insights into the life and function of the Protoaurignacian endscrapers at Fumane Cave, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13(8): 137.