IISEMG - Investigate Intermediate Structures in the Economy of Mycenaean Greece (1400 - 1200 BCE) through Archaeological and Textual Data
Maria Emanuela Alberti
Marie Sklowdoska Curie IEF Fellowship - FP 7
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Maria Emanuela Alberti
University of Sheffield, Honorary Fellow
BA., MA., Ph.D. Post-Doc
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Autumn 2012
Winter 2012
Brief personal biography
I have been active in study and research on Bronze Age Aegean since my graduation in 1997 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and continued with a Specialization in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Florence (2001) and a Ph.D. on textile industry in Neopalatial Crete at the University of Udine (2005). After that, I held research scholarships and grants and teaching contracts from the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens (2005-2006), various Universities (Florence and Udine, 2007-2012) and other institutions (Greek Ministry of Culture, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Philadelphia and Mediterranean Archaeological Trust, 2007-2012), including the Michael Ventris Memorial Award (2009). I took part into many international conferences, organized two colloquia and edited their proceedings, wrote more than 20 contributions, and obtained substantial teaching experience.
In 2012 I was awarded a Marie Curie IEF Fellowship at Sheffield, for the project IISEMG, that ended in december 2014.
I have been involved in many scientific missions for fieldwork and materials studies in Italy (Populonia) but mainly in Greece, in Crete (Petras, Chalasmenos and Malia), in Boeotia (Thebes) and in Achaea (Trapeza Aigion), and have various collaborations with scholars based in Greece, France, Denmark and Italy.
Research interests
My research interests focus on the economy of ancient societies, from resource management within the landscape and the archaeology of production to household activities and trade and measurement systems. The area most involved in my research is the Bronze Age Aegean, but I studied also other periods and regions (coastal Levant, Bronze Age Italy, Hellenistic Etruria, etc.)
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Aegean Archaeology
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Ancient Economics
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Measurement systems
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Archaeology of production (especially primary production, textile industry and household economy)
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Organization of production in palatial Aegean societies
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Trade systems and circuits in the ancient Mediterranean
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Resource management, agricultural exploitation and landscape archaeology
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Materials studies: storage and cooking wares, textile tools, weighing tools
Winter 2013
Spring 2013
Spring 2014
Selected publications
Co-editor:
-M.E. Alberti, E. Ascalone, L. Peyronel (eds.), Weights in Context. Bronze Age Weighing Systems of Eastern Mediterranean. Chronology, Typology, Material and Archaeological Context, Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Rome, 22-24 November 2004, Istituto Italiano di Numismatica “Studi e Materiali” 13, Rome 2006.
-M.E. Alberti, S. Sabatini (eds.), Exchange Networks and Local Transformations. Interaction and Local Change in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, Oxford and Oakville 2012.
Articles (ante 2012):
-M.E. Alberti, "The Minoan Textile Industry and the Territory from Neopalatial to Mycenaean Times: some First Thoughts", in Creta Antica 8, 2007, 243-263.
- M.E. Alberti, "Textile Industry Indicators in Minoan Work Areas: Problems of Typology and Interpretation", in C. Alfaro, L. Karali (eds), Vestidos, textiles y tintes. Estudios sobre la producción de bienes de consumo en la Antigüedad. Actas del II Symposium Internacional sobre Textiles y Tintes del Mediterráneo en el mundo antiguo (Atenas, 24 al 26 de noviembre, 2005) (Purpureae Vestes II), València 2008, 25-36.
- M.E. Alberti, "Murex shells as raw materials: purple industry and its by-products. Interpreting the archaeological record", in Kaskal 5 (2008), 73-90.
-M.E. Alberti, "La levantinizzazione dei sistemi ponderali nell’Egeo dell’età del Bronzo", in E. Ascalone and L. Peyronel (eds.), Studi italiani di metrologia ed economia del Vicino Oriente Antico dedicati a Nicola Parise in occasione del Suo settantesimo compleanno (Studia Asiana 7), Roma 2011, 1-42.
-M.E. Alberti, "Redistribuzione e commercio? Il sistema di traffici miceneo", in N. Parise, M.E. Alberti, C. Martinelli, "Reciprocità e ridistribuzione: modelli meccanici e modelli statistici", in V. Nizzo (ed.), Dalla nascita alla morte: antropologia e archeologia a confronto, Atti dell’Incontro Internazionale di Studi in onore di Claude Lévi - Strauss, Roma 21 maggio 2010, Roma 2011, 346-359.