Donatella Usai

1.9k total citations
51 papers, 813 citations indexed

About

Donatella Usai is a scholar working on Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donatella Usai has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 813 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Archeology, 21 papers in Anthropology and 17 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Donatella Usai's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (18 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers). Donatella Usai is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (18 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers). Donatella Usai collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Donatella Usai's co-authors include Sandro Salvatori, Lara Maritan, Andrea Zerboni, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Gilberto Artioli, Ivana Angelini, Marco Madella, Karen Hardy, Anita Radini and Stephen Buckley and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Donatella Usai

47 papers receiving 790 citations

Peers

Donatella Usai
Norma Ratto Argentina
Omry Barzilai Israel
Lisa‐Marie Shillito United Kingdom
Karen Milek United Kingdom
Aren M. Maeir Israel
Evan Peacock United States
Isabelle Théry‐Parisot France
William A. Lovis United States
Dominique Marguerie France
Steve Robertson Australia
Norma Ratto Argentina
Donatella Usai
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donatella Usai

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All Works

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Ambrose, Stanley H., Daniel J. Antoine, Joel D. Irish, et al.. (2024). From hunter‐gatherers to food producers: New dental insights into the Nile Valley population history (Late Paleolithic–Neolithic). American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 184(4). e24948–e24948. 3 indexed citations
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Iacumin, Paola, et al.. (2024). Stable isotope of Mesolithic remains of Pila wernei of the Nile area, Sudan: A tool for palaeoenvironment reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews. 345. 109029–109029.
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Sasso, Gregorio Dal, Luca Nodari, Luca Pagani, et al.. (2023). An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones. Journal of Archaeological Science. 161. 105900–105900. 13 indexed citations
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Dunne, Julie, Sandro Salvatori, Lara Maritan, et al.. (2022). Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan. African Archaeological Review. 39(3). 255–281. 8 indexed citations
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Gali, Lynda, et al.. (2022). In vitro and in vivo bioactivities of Ambrosia maritima and Bituminaria bituminosa organic extracts from Algeria. The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 16(6). 1064–1074. 6 indexed citations
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Maritan, Lara, Paola Iacumin, Andrea Zerboni, et al.. (2018). Fish and salt: The successful recipe of White Nile Mesolithic hunter-gatherer-fishers. Journal of Archaeological Science. 92. 48–62. 23 indexed citations
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Sasso, Gregorio Dal, Andrea Zerboni, Lara Maritan, et al.. (2018). Radiocarbon dating reveals the timing of formation and development of pedogenic calcium carbonate concretions in Central Sudan during the Holocene. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 238. 16–35. 22 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella, Lara Maritan, Gregorio Dal Sasso, et al.. (2017). Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Evidence of Prostatic Stones at Al Khiday Cemetery, Central Sudan. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169524–e0169524. 10 indexed citations
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Madella, Marco, Juan José García-Granero, Welmoed A. Out, Philippa Ryan, & Donatella Usai. (2014). Microbotanical Evidence of Domestic Cereals in Africa 7000 Years Ago. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e110177–e110177. 70 indexed citations
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Buckley, Stephen, et al.. (2014). Dental Calculus Reveals Unique Insights into Food Items, Cooking and Plant Processing in Prehistoric Central Sudan. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e100808–e100808. 96 indexed citations
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Panzeri, Laura, Emanuela Sibilia, Alfonso Zoleo, et al.. (2013). Luminescence and electron paramagnetic resonance properties of prehistoric ceramics from al-khiday excavation site, Sudan. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 13(3). 81–92. 3 indexed citations
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Zerboni, Andrea, Donatella Usai, & Sandro Salvatori. (2010). Geoarchaeological investigation at Al-Khiday (central Sudan): late Quaternary palaeoenvironment and site formation. EGUGA. 67(11). 5515–892. 1 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella, et al.. (2010). Excavating a unique pre-Mesolithic cemetery in Central Sudan. Antiquity. 84(324). 25 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella. (2008). Tracing the movements of the Western Desert dwellers: site 11-I-13 in Wadi Karagan, Sudanese Nubia, closely akin to El Ghorab or El Nabta. Journal of African Archaeology. 6(2). 219–232. 5 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella & Sandro Salvatori. (2005). The IsIAO archaeological project in the El Salha area (Omdurman South, Sudan): results and perspectives. 60. 474–493. 14 indexed citations
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Salvatori, Sandro & Donatella Usai. (2002). Graves with Caliciform Beakers at the Neolithic Cemetery of R12 in the Northern Dongola Reach (Kawa, Sudan). 5–7. 1 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella & Sandro Salvatori. (2001). First season of excavation at the R12 late neolithic cemetery in the Northern Dongola Reach (Kawa, Sudan): preliminary report. 12–56. 2 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella. (2000). New Prehistoric sites along the Omani coast from Ra's al‐Hadd to Ra's al‐Jins. Arabian archaeology and epigraphy. 11(1). 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Usai, Donatella. (1997). ''Early axumite lithic workshop evidences from beta giorgis, axum, Ethiopia''. 7–12. 2 indexed citations

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