Angelo Castrorao BarbaAngelo Castrorao Barba (Palermo, 1983) is currently a Fellow at the University of Palermo (Sicily, Italy). His principal fields of interest are Late Antique and Early Medieval Archaeology and the transformations of landscape and settlement patterns fom Roman times to the Middle Ages in Mediterranean area. In 2013, he obtained a PhD in Medieval Archaeology (University of Siena) with a dissertation about the end of Roman villas in Italy between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (200-800 AD). In 2014, he received a post-graduate Master Diploma in GIS & Remote Sensing (Center for Geo Technologies / Siena). In 2014-2015 he was guest researcher at VU University Amsterdam and a postdoc fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Currently, he is a researcher on the project "Harvesting Memories" which aims to study ecology and archaeology of rural landscapes in Sicani Mountains (C-W Sicily), and he is field director of the excavation of the long-term settlement of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo). Read More Read Less