I hold a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts and Conservation/Restoration of Cultural Heritage and a PhD degree in History. I am an experienced researcher with multi and interdisciplinary training, reinforced by pre and post-doctoral international research experience, related to arts and archaeology, archaeometry and provenance, material, chemical, geological and earth sciences and, finally, engineering. The most relevant scientific fields: study and generation of the first and only archaeometrical database on Iberian amphora and common wares; functional adequacy of pottery in archaeological and archaeometrical studies by studying the mechanical properties; ethnoarchaeology and ethnoarchaeometry of Sardinian pottery and construction materials; study and prospection of raw materials. Clayey and ceramic building materials and green mortars compositional and functional studies, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary characterization of wall paintings and identification of pigments' origin by isotope measuring (ICP-MS). I am specialized in several research approaches and methodologies. I have characterised pottery from the Neolithic to the Islamic period including: Neolithic coarse wares, Iberian amphorae and common wares, Roman amphora, Roman and Late Roman common, coarse and fine wares, medieval and Islamic common and fine wares in the West Mediterranean and from the Hellenistic to the Kushan-Sassanian pottery in Central Asia. Lately, I was involved in studies related to black gloss Campanian Pottery from Sicily, as well, in raw material studies. I have carried out full technological and material studies on Roman to Early Byzantine wall paintings and mortars in Spain also characterised the pigments of wall paintings from Kampir-Tepe (Uzbekistan). I was involved in ceramic ethnoarchaeological and ethnoarchaeometrical work in Sardinia and Spain and I also have characterised building materials. I also have a wide experience in restoration and conservation of cultural heritage.

Publicacions Seleccionades

Tsantini E., Cau M. A., Monatna G., Randazzo L., 2016, The production of traditional building materials in Oristano (Sarinia Italy), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Springer; doi: 10.1007/s12520-016-0326-z

Randazzo, L., Montana, G., Alduina, R., Quatrini, P., Tsantini, E. and Salemi B., 2015, Flos Tectorii degradation of mortars: An example of synergistic action between soluble salts and biodeteriogens, Journal of Cultural Heritage, Vol16/ 6,pp. 838 – 847, Elsevier
doi: 10.1016/j.culher.2015.04.002.

Tsantini, E., Jiménez-Piqué E., Montana G., Randazzo L., 2015, Strength of pre-Roman amphorae: Comparison of the different types, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol.2, pp. 405 - 417. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.04.001.

Tsantini E., Martínez Ferreras V., Ariño Gil E., Gurt I Esparraguera and J. M., Pidaev, S. 2015, Pottery Production in the Buddhist Communities in Central Asia: The Kussan-Sassanian Pottery Workshop of Kara Tepe (Termez, Uzbekistan), Archaeometry, Vol.58/1, pp 35–56 (printed version: February 2016), Wiley and Son. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12161.

Cau Ontiveros, M. Á.; Montana, G.; Tsantini, E.; Randazzo, L., 2015, Ceramic Ethnoarchaeometry in Western Sardinia: Production of Cooking Ware at Pabillonis, Archaeometry, Vol57/n3, pp 453–475, Wiley and Son DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12100.

Montana, G.; Tsantini, E.; Randazzo, L. and Burgio, A., 2013, SEM-EDS Analysis as a Rapid Tool for Distinguishing Campanian A Ware and Sicilian Imitations, Archaeometry, Vol55, pp. 591-608, Wiley and Son. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00723.x.

Tsantini, E.; Buxeda i Garrigós, J.; Cau Ontiveros and M.A.; Gurt i Esparraguera, J.M., 2003, Les pintures murals de la basílica paleocristiana de «Es Cap des Port» (Fornells, Menorca): materials i tècniques, Pyrenae: Revista de Prehistòria i Antiguitat de la Mediterrània Occidental, Vol.33/34, pp: 261-280. ISSN 0079-8215. O
on line: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Pyrenae/ article/view/145093/243111.

Ribera i Lacomba, A. and Tsantini, E, 2008, Las ánforas del mundo ibérico; in D. Bernal Casasola y A. Ribera i Lacomba (eds), Cerámicas Hispanorromanas, Un Estado de la Cuestión., Cádiz, Spain, pp. 617 – 634.

Tsantini, E.; Martínez, V.; Gurt, J.M., 2008, Results of the available archaeological and archaeoemetrical information on the excavations of Kara Tepe. in J.M. Gurt Esparraguera, S. Pidaev, A.M. Rauret i Dalmau, S. Stride (eds.), Preliminary Report of the work of the International Pluridisciplinary Archaeological Expedition to Bactria 2007.1, pp. 67 - 90. (España): Dipòsit Digital de la UB. Recerca., 2007. ISBN 978-84-690-7755-9.
http: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/11503

Tsantini, E.; Martínez-Ferreras, V.; Gurt-Esparraguera, J.M.; Pidaev, S., 2012. Proposal on the preliminar scientific study of the construction materials of Termez, for the identification of the preservation state and study of suitable conservation treatment and rehabilitation process, in Gurt Esparraguera J.M.; Pidaev S. (eds.), Preliminary Report of the work of the International Pluridisciplinary Archaeological Expedition to Bactria 2010, Vol.5, pp. 309 - 323. (Spain): ISBN 978-84-694-7212-5.
http: http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/24369

Tsantini, E.; Buxeda i Garrigós, J.; Cau Ontiveros, M.A. and Orfila Pons M., 2004, Caracterización arqueométrica de la cerámica común producida en la villa romana de Sa Mesquida (Mallorca) Pyrenae: Revista de Prehistòria i Antiguitat de la Mediterrània Occidental, Vol.35, pp:157-186.
On line: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Pyrenae/article/download/145121/243150.

Tsantini, E.; Buxeda-Garrigós J.; Cau-Ontiveros M.A.; Gurt-Esparraguera, J. M., 2005, Mineralogical and chemical analysis of the wall paintings of the Early Christian Basilica of 'Es Cap des Port' (Fornells, Menorca), Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies, vol 3, pp.99-101, Amsterdam, Nederlands.