PUBLICATIONS
Maffezzoli, N., Cook, E., van der Bilt, W. G. M., Støren, E. N., Festi, D., Muthreich, F., Seddon, A. W. R., Burgay, F., Baccolo, G., Mygind, A. R. F., Petersen, T., Spolaor, A., Vascon, S., Pelillo, M., Ferretti, P., dos Reis, R. S., Simões, J. C., Ronen, Y., Delmonte, B., Viccaro, M., Steffensen, J. P., Dahl-Jensen, D., Nisancioglu, K. H., and Barbante, C.: Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks, The Cryosphere, 17, 539–565, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-539-2023, 2023.
Marchesini, A., Festi, D., Girardi, M., Micheletti, D., Vernesi, C., & Luetscher, M. (2022). Ancient DNA from speleothems: Opportunity or challenge? Quaternary Research, 1-9. doi:10.1017/qua.2022.46
J.S. Carrión, J. Ochando, K. Sniderman, D. Festi (2022) Palaeobotanical records from cave environments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 306: 104759, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104759.
Bardy-Durchhalter M., Bender O., Bertolotti G., Branca D., Braun V., et al. (2022) Joint Endeavor Toward Sustainable Mountain Development: Research at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Mountain Research and Development, 42(1):1-4 ; https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-22-00002.1
Honiat C., Festi D., Wilcox P.S., Edwards R.L., Cheng H., Spötl C. (2021) Early Last Interglacial environmental changes recorded by speleothems from Katerloch (south-east Austria). Journal of Quaternary Science, 1:13, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3398
Festi D., Schwikowski M., Maggi V., Oeggl K., Jenk T. M. (2021). Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core, The Cryosphere, 15, 4135–4143, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4135-2021
Seddon, A. W. R. Festi D., Nieuwkerk M., Gya R., Hamre B., Krüger L. C., Östman S. A. H., Robson T. M. (2021). Pollen‐chemistry variations along elevation gradients and their implications for a proxy for UV‐B radiation in the plant‐fossil record. Journal of Ecology, May, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13720
Luetscher M., Moseley G. E., Festi D., Hof F., Edwards R. L., Spötl C. (2021). A Last Interglacial speleothem record from the Sieben Hengste cave system (Switzerland): Implications for alpine paleovegetation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 262, 106974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106974
Festi D., Brandner D., Grabner M., Knierzinger W., Reschreiter H., Kowarik K. (2021). 3500 years of environmental sustainability in the large-scale alpine mining district of Hallstatt, Austria. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports p.102670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102670
Knierzinger W., Festi D., Limbeck A., Horak F., Brunnbauer L., Drollinger S., Wagreich M., Huang J.-J. S., Strasser M., Knorr K.-H., Reschreiter H., Gier S., Kofler W., Herzig C., Kowarik K. (2021). Multi-proxy analyses of a minerotrophic fen to reconstruct prehistoric periods of human activity associated with salt mining in the Hallstatt region (Austria). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102813
Knierzigner W., Drescher-Schneider R, Brunnbauer L., Holger Knorr K., Drollinger S., Horak F., Limbeck A., Festi D., Wagreich M. (2020) Anthropogenic and climate signals in prehistoric peat layers of an ombrotrophic bog in the Styrian Enns valley (Austrian Alps). Quaternary Science Journal, 69:121-137 https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-121-2020
Segnana M. , Oeggl K., Poto L., Gabrieli J., Festi D., Kofler W., Frare P.C., Zaccone C., Barbante C. (2019). Holocene vegetation history and human impact in the eastern Italian Alps: a multi-proxy study on the Coltrondo peat bog, Comelico Superiore, Italy. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00749-y PDF
Festi D., Kofler W., Oeggl K. (2019). Comments on Brugger and others (2019) “A quantitative comparison of microfossils extraction methods from ice cores” Journal of Glaciology, 65(250): 344-346. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.10. PDF
Seddon A.W.R., Festi D., Robson M.T., Zimmermann B. (2019). Fossil pollen and spores as a tool for reconstructing ancient solar-ultraviolet irradiance: an assessment of prospects and challanges using proxy-system modelling. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 18: 275-194, doi :10.1039/C8PP00490K . PDF
Barnes P.W. , Jansen M.A.K., Jenkins G.I., Vandenbussche F., Brelsford C.C., Banas A.K., Bilger W., Castagna A., Festi D., Gaberščik A., Germ M., Golob A., Hauser M.-T., Llorens L., Martinez-Abaigar J., Morales L.O., Neugart S., Pieristè M., Rai N., Ryan L., Santin M., Seddon A.W.R., Stelzner J., Tavridou E., Łabuz J., Robson T.M. (2019). Importance and direction of current and future plant-UV research. UV4Plants Bullettin 2018: 2. DOI: 10.19232/uv4pb.2018.2.11 PDF
Festi D. (2018). Now or never: the study of disappearing ice archives in the time of global warming. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 31(1):73-78. PDF
Spötl C.,Slupetzky H., Drescher-Schneider R., Festi D., Heiss A., Reimer P. (2017). An Early Würmian age for the Inneralpine Halldorf site, Salzach Valley, Austria. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 110/1: 109-121, DOI: 10.17738/ajes.2017.0008, PDF
Festi D., Carturan L., Kofler W., dalla Fontana G., de Blasi F., Cazorzi F., Bucher E., Mair V., Gabrielli P., and Oeggl K. (2017) Linking pollen deposition and snow accumulation on the Alto dell'Ortles glacier (South Tyrol, Italy) for sub-seasonal dating of a firn temperate core, The Cryosphere, 11, 937-948, doi:10.5194/tc-11-937-2017, 2017. PDF
Gabrielli P., Barbante C., Bertagna G., Bertó M., Binder D., Carton A., Carturan L., Cazorzi F., Cozzi G., Dalla Fontana G., Davis M., De Blasi F., Dinale R., Dragà G., Dreossi G., Festi D., Frezzotti M., Gabrieli J., Galos S., Ginot P., Heidenwolf P., Jenk T. M., Kehrwald N., Kenny D., Magand O., Mair V., Mikhalenko V., Lin P. N., Oeggl K., Piffer G., Rinaldi M., Schotterer U., Schwikowski M., Seppi R., Spolaor A., Stenni B., Tonidandel D., Uglietti C., Zagorodnov V., Zanoner T., and Zennaro P. (2016) Age of the Mt. Ortles ice cores, the Tyrolean Iceman and glaciation of the highest summit of South Tyrol since the Northern Hemisphere Climatic Optimum, The Cryosphere Discuss., doi:10.5194/tc-2016-159. PDF
Festi D., Hoffmann D., Luetscher M. (2016) Pollen from accurately dated speleothems supports alpine glacier low-stands during the early Holocene. Quaternary Research, 86: 45-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2016.05.003. PDF
Putzer, A, Festi D., Edlmair S., Oeggl K. (2016)The development of human activity in the high altitudes on the Schnals Valley (South Tyrol/Italy) from the Mesolithic to modern periods. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6: 136-147. PDF
Putzer, A, D. Festi & K. Oeggl (2016). Was the Iceman really a herdsman? Evidence of prehistoric pastoral economy in the Schnals Valley. Antiquity, 90 350: 319-336. PDF
Festi D., Kofler W., Bucher E., Carturan L., Mair V., Gabrielli P., Oeggl K. (2015) A novel pollen-based method to detect seasonality in ice cores : a case study form the Ortles glacier, South Tyrol, Italy. Journal of Glaciology 61(229): 815-824. PDF
Putzer A., Festi D., (2014) Nicht nur Ötzi? Neufunde aus dem Tisental (Gem. Schnals/Prov. Bozen). Prähistorische Zeitschrift Schriftleitung, 89(1):55-7. PDF
Festi D., Putzer A., Oeggl K. (2014) Mid and late Holocene development of the land-use in the Ötztal Alps, territory of the Neolithic Iceman "Ötzi". Quaternary International 353:17-33. PDF
Festi D., Tecchiati U., Steiner H., Oeggl K. (2011) The Late Neolithic settlement of Latsch, Vinschgau, northern Italy: subsistence of a settlement contemporary with the Alpine Iceman, and located in his valley of origin. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 20: 367-379. PDF
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Oeggl K., Festi D., Putzer A.: The onset of alpine pastoral systems in the Eastern Alps. In: Arnau G. (ed): Archaeology of mountain landscapes: interdisciplinary research strategies of agro-pastoralism in upland regions. SUNY Press (in press).
Kowarik K., Reschreiter H., Anselmetti F., Eckart Barth F., Berberich T., Brauer A., Drescher-Schneider R, Festi D., Grabner M., Ita A., Jochum B., Kern A., Lauterbach S, Oeggl K.D., Ottowitz D., Römer A., Strasser M. (2018) From salt mines to lake sediments. Investigating human environment relations in the Hallstatt region, Austria. PAST-The Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society, 89: 11-13
Wahlmüller N, Festi D, Oeggl K, Kofler W (2020). Regionale und lokale Landschaftsentwicklung von der Römerzeit bis ins frühe Mittelalter zwischen Rätischen und Lombardischen Voralpen (Giudicarie esteriori, Trentino). In: Zagermann M., Cavada E. (Hrsg): Alpine Festungen 400–1000: Chronologie, Räume und Funktionen, Netzwerke, Interpretationen. Münchner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte.
Mottes E., Bassetti M., Avanzini M., Boschin F., Cremona M.G., Cottini M. , Dalmeri G., Festi D., Fontana F., Oeggl K., Rottoli M. (2017). Tra la foresta e il lago: Il sito all’aperto dell’epigravettiano recente di Arco via Serafini (Trentino, italia settentrionale). Annali dell’universitá degli Studi di Ferrara. 13 (2017): 20-23.
Festi D. (2012) Palynological reconstruction of the onset and development of alpine pasture in the Eastern Alps since the Neolithic. PhD Thesis, University of Innsbruck: 66 pp. PDF
Festi D., Oeggl K. (2010) Transhumance as potential subsistence strategy in the Alps during prehistory. In: Anreiter P., Goldenberg G., Hanke K., Krause R., Leitner W., Mathis F., Nicolussi K., Oeggl K., Pernicka E., Prast M., Schibler J., Schneider I., Stadler H., Stöllner T., Tomedi G., Tropper P. (eds) Mining in European History and its Impact on Environment and Human Societies. Proceedings for the 1st Mining in European History-Conference of the SFB-HIMAT, 12.–15. November 2009, Innsbruck: 245-251. ISBN 978-3-902719-69-0. PDF
Filippi M.L. & Festi D., (2007) Paleolimnologia in Trentino: metodi e stato dell'arte. In: Frisia S, Filippi M.L. & Borsato A., Cambiamenti climatici e ambientali in Trentino: dal passato prospettive per il futuro. Studi Trent. Sci Nat., Acta Geol., 82: 85-99. ISSN 0392-0534. PDF