Elisa COSTA

Elisa Costa is a research assistant RTDa in Metodologie della Ricerca Archeologica at Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of Ca’ Foscari in CHANGES PNRR project, Spoke 1 ‘Historical Landscapes, Traditions and Cultural Identities’.

Her research mainly concerns the field of maritime and underwater archaeology, with a particular interest in shipbuilding, combining archaeological and ethnographic aspects as an expert on traditional Adriatic boats, and in archaeological surveys with digital techniques for the documentation, study and dissemination of heritage.

In the four-year period 2019-2022 she participated, as a research fellow, in two Interreg Italy-Croatia projects, ArcaAdriatica and UnderwaterMuse, focused on the protection, promotion and public fruition of the ethnographic and archaeological heritage, in particular through the application of digital and immersive museum experiences.

She has held a PhD in Storia delle Arti in 2019, an Interateneum doctorate Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Iuav University of Venice.

In 2015 she has been a research fellow at Iuav University of Venice, with a research focused on "Underwater photogrammetry" in collaboration with the Department of Humanities and prof. Carlo Beltrame for photogrammetric surveys and 3D documentation for the study of wrecks with marble cargos in the Mediterranean.

She has participated in numerous national and international conferences and she is the author of papers in various scientific journals; she recently published the monograph ‘The shipwreck of Santa Maria in Padovetere (Comacchio-Ferrara). Archaeology of a riverine barge of Late Roman period and of other recent finds of sewn boats’, together with Carlo Beltrame.