Simone Casale
Research Assistant
- Name
- Mr. S.C. Casale
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2371
- casale@kitlv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0126-2788
Simone is a PhD researcher at the KITLV and the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology.
More information about Simone Casale
PhD supervisor
Office days
Monday
Research
Simone is a PhD researcher at the KITLV and Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology. His research tries to overcome the archaeological narratives in the Caribbean region, with a focus on Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas archipelago. Narratives have aided in the creation of a simplistic and static perception of the first inhabitants of the region. In contrast, Simone’s study aims to target questions linking ceramic manufacturing practices, social complexity, and multiculturality among ancient Caribbean societies.
A detailed analysis of Caribbean lifeways through their ceramic practices, such as the technologies required for procuring, fashioning, and use will provide unique archaeological data on indigenous identities and sociocultural behaviors prior to the devastating effects of Spanish invasions.
Curriculum Vitae
Simone holds a bachelor degree in Science and Technologies for the Cultural Heritage from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy (2012), a Master of Science in Archaeometry from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2016) and a master degree cum laude in Material Culture Studies from Leiden University (2017).
His previous studies were both on ceramic manufacturing and clay procurement practices in Europe and Central America. He carried out compositional analyses on ceramic paste and glaze (pXRF, SEM-EDS, ICP-MS) on 16th and 17th-century European faience, performed during an internship with the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. With the Proyecto Arqueológico Centro de Nicaragua (PACEN) he carried out an extensive clay survey (50km2) together with geochemical analysis and petrographic analysis on pre-Hispanic ceramics in the Central of Nicaragua.
Simone also works as a GIS specialist and spatial analyst in the CaribTRAILS project.
External PhD Candidate
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Caribbean and Amazonia
Research Assistant
PhD candidate / external
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Caribbean and Amazonia
- Jaspers N.L., Wispelwey M.H. & Casale S. (2020), 2. Productieproces. In: Jaspers, N.L; Wispelwey, M.H. (Eds.) Misbaksels uit Ermelo. Productieafval van een middeleeuwse pottenbakker (circa 1300). no. 3 Zandijk: Terra Cotta Incognita. 11-20.
- Casale Simone, Jean Joseph S., Capelli Claudio, Braekmans Dennis, Degryse Patrick & Hofman Corinne (2020), Transatlantic Connections in Colonial and Post-colonial Haiti: Archaeometric Evidence for Taches Noires Glazed Tableware Imported from Albissola, Italy to Fort Liberté, Haiti, International Journal of Historical Archaeology .
- Casale Simone (2020), Geochemical and petrographic assessment of clay outcrops and archaeological ceramics from the pre-hispanic site of Aguas Buenas (cal 400–1250 CE), Central Nicaragua [Networked practices of contact: Cultural identity at the Late prehistoric settlement of Aguas Buenas, Nicaragua, AD 500–1522] (translation: Casale S., Donner N., Braekmans D. & Geurds A.), Microchemical Journal 156.
- Casale S., Donner N., Braekmans D. & Geurds A. (2020), Pre-Hispanic and contemporary raw materials use in earthenware production in the Río Mayales subbasin, Chontales, central Nicaragua. In: Klinkenberg M.V., Oosten R.M.R. van & Driel-Murray C. van (Eds.) A Human Environment. Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels, Leiden. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia Leiden: Sidestone Press. 107-120.
- Admiraal M., Lucquin A., Drieu L., Casale S., Jordan P.D. & Craig O.E. (2019), Leftovers: the presence of manufacture-derived aquatic lipids in Alaskan pottery, ARCHAEOMETRY .
- Donner N.R., Casale S., Braekmans D. & Geurds A. (2019), Ceramic comales at the Barillas site (cal 1255–1390 CE), central Nicaragua: Defining a local technical tradition of griddle manufacture, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 24: 829-842.
- Casale S., Capelli C., Braekmans D., Degryse P., Hofman C., Gavagnin S. & Jean J.S. (2019), La ceramica a Taches Noires albisolese e la sua distribuzione nel mercato coloniale. Un caso di studio archeometrico da Haiti. In: Ceramica 4.0: Nuove Esperienze e tecnologie per la comunicazione, catalogazione e musealizzazione della ceramica. Atti LI Convegno Internazionale della Ceramica Sesto Fiorentino (FI): All'Insegna del Giglio s.a.s.. 123-127.
- Casale S., Capelli C., Jaspers N., Megens L. & Bulgarelli F. (2019), Nuovi riscontri archeometrici sulla produzione di maioliche in stile compendiario ad Albissola Marina. In: Ceramica 4.0: Nuove esperienze e tecnologie per la comunicazione, catalogazione e musealizzazione della ceramica. Sesto Fiorentino (FI): All'Insegna del Giglo s.a.s.. 118-122.
- Casale S., Capelli C., Jaspers N.L., Megens L. & Bulgarelli F. (2019), Nuovi riscontri archeometrici sulla produzione di maioliche in stile compendiario ad Albissola Marina. In: Ceramica 4.0: Nuove esperienze e tecnologie per la comunicazione, catalogazione e musealizzazione della ceramica. Sesto Fiorentino (FI): All'Insegna del Giglo s.a.s.. 118-122.
- Casale S., Megens L. & Jaspers N.L. (2018), Eccellenze liguri in Europa tra il XVI e XVII secolo. Analisi archeometriche di provenienza di maioliche liguri in stile compendiario esportate nei Paesi Bassi, Rivista di Studi Liguri LXXX-LXXXI (2014-2015): 217-228.
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