LISTA DEI MEMBRI (in ordine alfabetico)

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Prof. Giorgio Buccellati

Is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near East and History of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Department of History(NELC). He is actually the director of the Urkesh-Tell Mozan Excavation Project in Syria. His current areas of research are connected to Archaeological field work in the Khabur region; Computer analysis of Mesopotamian materials; Linguistic analysis of Akkadian and Eblaite; Stratigraphic analysis; Environmental conditions of historical developmen. He is also Director of the Mesopotamian Lab at Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and at the IIMAS and IIMAS-Italia. He has published innumerable articles and monographs inherent to Amorites of the Ur III Period, Cthe ities and Nations of Ancient Syria, Terqa Excavation Reports, Structural Grammar of Babylonian and Mozan Excavation Reports.

CONTACT:
Office: Fowler A311
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
Phone: 310.825.3760
Fx: 310.206.6456

E-mail: buccella@ucla.edu

 

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Prof. Giovannangelo Camporeale

Is Professor Emeritus of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities, University of Florence, and Chairman of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. He is the author of several ground-breaking publications, including La tomba del Duce (Florence 1967), I commerci di Vetulonia in età orientalizzante (Florence 1969), La Collezione Alla Querce. Materiali archeologici orvietani (Florence 1970), Buccheri a cilindretto di fabbrica orvietana (Florence 1972), and La caccia in Etruria (Rome 1984). Over the last three decades, Professor Camporeale has directed excavations at Massa Marittima, an Etruscan mining settlement of the 7th-6th BC century in the heart of metalliferous hills, now coordinated and sponsored by CAMNES and LdM. The results of his campaigns have been published in scientific journals, conferences papers, and monographs: L'Etruria mineraria (Florence-Milan 1985), L'abitato etrusco dell'Accesa (Rome 1997), and Il parco archeologico dell'Accesa a Massa Marittima (Follonica 2000). His most recent books include Gli Etruschi. Storia e civiltà (Turin 2000/2004) and Gli Etruschi fuori d'Etruria (Verona 2001), which have been translated into German and English, respectively, the last as The Etruscans Outside Etruria (Los Angeles 2004). He is a member of various Italian and foreign academies, exhibition committees, and editorial boards.

CONTACT:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità "G. Pasquali"
Piazza Brunelleschi, 3-4
50121 - Firenze (FI)
Phone: 055 27571

E-Mail: giovannangelo.camporeale@unifi.it

 

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Prof. Giovanni Alberto Cecconi

Is Associate Professor at the University of Florence at the Department of Antiquity Sciences where he teaches Ancient Roman History and Latin Epigraphy. He worked on imperial history and Late Antiquity, with particular emphasis on administrative history, religion, ideology and issues of power. He has published in Italian and other languages over fifty contributions from monographs, essays, articles, reviews and articles of a more educational and informative. He has taught as Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section V, Paris (2002). E 'for the years 2005-2007, secretary of the Consulting University of Greek and Roman historians.

CONTACT: 
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità "G. Pasquali"
Piazza Brunelleschi, 3-4
50121 - Firenze (FI)
Phone: 055 2757841 Fax: 055 2757872

E-Mail: giovannialberto.cecconi@unifi.it

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Prof. Massimo Cultraro

Archaeologist and Senior Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali, Catania (IBAM). Adjunct professor of Aegean Prehistory at the University of Palermo (Italy), he has been Visiting Professor at the Brown University, Rhode Island (USA) and is member of the Archaeological Institute of America and member of the Archaeological Society of Athens. His main research field is the archaeology of Minoan Crete, where he worked in Crete in the palatial sites at Haghia Triada and Festos; since 1992 he conducts research in the Bronze Age settlement at Poliochni, in the island of Lemnos (Greece). The main focus of his research is the Archaeology of Religion and Archaeology of Power in the Aegean Bronze Age, and in the last decade he has been carried out research and field activity on the prehistory of Sicily (Italy). Since 2007 he has served as scientific director of the Iraq Virtual Museum, an international multimedia project promoted by the CNR and Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs (www.virtualmuseumiraq.cnr.it).  His main activity as CNR’s research is in the field of multimedia communication systems of the Cultural Heritage. His more than 80 scientific contributions include articles, essays, reviews and two monographs on the Bronze Age Greece, L’anello di Minosse. Archeologia della regalità nell’Egeo preistorico (Milan 2001), and I Micenei. I Greci prima di Omero (Rome, 2005). A book on Troy in the Bronze Age and a monograph on Rituals in Neolithic Greece both are in press.

CONTACT:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istitituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali
Via Biblioteca 4, 95124 CATANIA
Phone: + 095-311981

E-Mail:  massimo.cultraro@cnr.it

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Prof. Salima Ikram

Dr. Salima Ikram is Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, and has worked in Egypt since 1986. She has lived in Pakistan, the US, UK and Egypt. After double majoring in History as well as Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College (USA), she received her M. Phil. (in Museology and Egyptian Archaeology) and Ph.D. (in Egyptian archaeology) from Cambridge University. She has directed the Animal Mummy Project, co-directed the Predynastic Gallery project, and is Co-director of the North Kharga Oasis Survey. Dr. Ikram has worked on several excavations in Egypt as well as in the Sudan, Greece, and Turkey. Her research interests include death, daily life, archaeozoology, ethnoarchaeology, rock art, experimental archaeology, and the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. She has lectured on these and other subjects all over the world. Dr. Ikram has written several books (for adults and children) and articles, with subject matters ranging from mummification to the eating habits of the ancient Egyptians. She has also appeared on television.

 

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Prof. Nicola Laneri

Is currently research fellow at the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Assistant professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Catania, and director of the Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project in Southeastern Turkey. He graduated from the Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli,  has been Research Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University, Visiting Lecturer at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, and  Visiting Fellow at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He has given lectures at numerous International conferences and  published more than 50 articles, book chapters and reviews and is author of  the following books: I costumi funerari lungo la media valle dell’Eufrate durante il III millennio a.C. (Naples, 2004), Biografia di un vaso: Tecniche di produzione del vasellame ceramico del Vicino Oriente antico tra il V e il II millennio a.C. (Paestum 2009), and the edited volume, Performing Death: The Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Chicago, 2007).

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Prof. Stefania Mazzoni

is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Phoenician and Punic Archaeology at the University of Florence (Italy). She is Director of the Tell Afis joint project (Universities of Pisa, Bologna and Roma-La Sapienza), member of the Tell Mardikh/Ebla archaeological mission, and has been previously doing fieldwork at other Syrian sites (Tell Frey, Tell Tuqan). She is Director of the Cooperation Programme between the Universities of Damascus and Pisa, and has been organizing international conferences and courses. Her main research field is the archaeology of Syria during the Bronze and Iron ages. She is the author of 110 scientific contributions, most relevant among which are the monograph: S.M. Cecchini, S. Mazzoni (Edd.), Tell Afis (Siria). Scavi sull'acropoli 1988-1992. The 1998-1992 Excavations on the Acropolis (= Ricerche di Archeologia del Vicino Oriente 1), Pisa 1998, and a number of articles about the ceramic and glyptic production of Syro-Palestine in the third millennium BC.


CONTACT:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità "G. Pasquali"
Piazza Brunelleschi, 3-4
50121 - Firenze (FI)
Phone: 055 2757841 - 2757878 (secretary) - 2757806 - 2757875 (administration)
Fax: 055 2757872

E-Mail: stefania.mazzoni@unifi.it

 

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Dr. Gaetano Palumbo

Is Program Director - North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia - at the World Monuments Fund. He is member of UK/ICOMOS and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His main qualifications are: Integrated management of archaeological sites and cultural resources, Documentation and conservation of archaeological and historic heritage, and Cultural Resources Management. He collaborated with the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA (1994-2000), the American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan (1990-1994) and the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma (1982-1984). 
He was Co-director of 3 major archaeological survey projects in Jordan (1987-2000) and coordinator of rescue excavations in Jordan (1990-1994). As consultant, coordinator and supervisor he was involved in several projects of conservation and management with the UNESCO, the University College London, the World Monuments Fund in Jordan (Petra), Morocco, Turkmenistan, Lebanon (Baalbek and Tyre), Iraq, Ethiopia, and Abu Dhabi. He presented more than 50 papers in conferences and symposia in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. He is the author of approximately 100 contributions on scientific journals and popular press printed in Europe, America, and the Near East, among which are the monographs: The Early Bronze Age IV in the Southern Levant. Settlement patterns, Economy, and Material Culture of a 'Dark Age'. CMAO III, Roma: Università di Roma 1991, and Management Planning for Archaeological Sites (editor) Los Angeles: Getty 2002.

CONTACT:
World Monuments Fund
350 5th Avenue, Suite 2412
New York, NY 10118
Phone: +1 347 410 9803

E-Mail: gpalumbo@wmf.org 

 

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Prof. Chiara Longo Pecorella

Chiara Pecorella Longo has been Associate Professor from 1970 to 2009 at the University of Florence, where she taught Greek History, Greek Antiquities and Greek Epigraphy. Her main research field is Greek Institutions (in particular ostracism) and Greek Law (Athenian and Spartan) in the archaic and classical periods. The results of her investigations have been published in monographs, essays and articles on italian and international journals.





CONTACT:
Phone: (+39) 055412031

E-mail: chiara.longo@me.com
              

 

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Prof. Annamaria Ronchitelli

Is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Fisics and Natural Sciences at the University of Siena.
She has been teaching for many years in the field of human paleontology and anthropology.
She has participated at numerous conferences, national and international, working in some cases to their organization. Also, she has organized several museum exhibitions.
She is the author of over eighty books and publications on national and international journals. She has participated at about a hundred excavations, since 1976, with directive responsability, especially in southern Italy, in Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites. Some of them are known abroad (Grotta di Castelcivita, Grotta della Cala e Riparo del Molare – prov. di Salerno). She is currently head of research at Grotta Paglicci (Foggia), one of the most important paleolithic sites in the Mediterranean in which is held the only known evidence of Palaeolithic parietal paintings in Italy.


CONTACT:
Università degli Studi di Siena
Dip. Scienze Ambientali "G. Sarfatti"
U.R. Ecologia Preistorica
via Tommaso Pendola 62- 53100 Siena
tel. +39 0577233542
      +39 3204374453

E-mail: ronchitelli@unisi.it

 

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