IOSA.it Open Archaeology

The aficionados readers and users of iosa.it, if any, were probably asking themselves what was going on, given the substantial lack of updates here.
To make a long story short, I got my master degree cum laude in Late Antique Archaeology two weeks ago, on April, 21st (2762 a.U.c.). It took me several months of hard work, and obviously everything else, including this website and activity around it, hasn't been receiving lots of care. In a future post, I'll try to describe in detail my current situation and wishes concerning university, job and research.
My dissertation was entitled Defining complexity. The “circulation” of african red slip ware in Italy 400-700 AD. I've approached the subject by collecting a quite large dataset of published pottery from more than 100 archaeological sites in Northern and Central Italy. In the meanwhile, I've done my best to understand the most popular quantification methods (as usual, the good things about standards is that there are so many you can choose from) and their respective implications, even though in the end I've done very little work using quantification data, concentrating more on presence data (which have their bias problems, too). My analysis has been concentrated mainly on 3 directions: