Postdoctoral Fellow - Tracing Networks Project

BA (Turin), MA, PhD (“Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, Milan)

Tel: 0116 252 2351

Email: aq15@le.ac.uk

Alessandro read Classical Archaeology as an undergraduate at the University of Turin. His MA and PhD researches focused on the Punic coarse and painted ware from the sanctuary of Tas-Silġ (Malta); he was awarded various scholarships by Universities of Milan and Lecce and from Maltese Government for this research. Over the years he has developed competence and skills in studying and analysing Classical pottery and material culture from different sites of the Mediterranean, mainly located in Italy and Greece. From April 2010 he gained a permanent position as an archaeologist in the Superintendency of Archaeological Heritage of Piemonte and Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (NW Italy).

Alessandro has built up a wide range of archaeological expertise and management experience working in various excavations in Italy, Malta and Turkey (Hierapolis). Moreover, he worked for one year as a archaeologist in the Municipality of Lecce. (SE Italy) In addition, he is participating in the archaeological project concerning the indigenous sanctuary of Santa Maria d’Agnano (Ostuni, Italy).

In 2010, Alessandro joined the School of Archaeology and Ancient History as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tracing Networks subproject “Weaving relationships: loom weights and cross-cultural networks in the ancient Mediterranean”. The project has been initiated by Prof Lin Foxhall and focuses on analysing the loom weights across the Mediterranean from Late Bronze Age to 3rd century BCE, investigating the exchange of shapes, decorations, craft knowledge and personal/group behaviours within the larger social and economic interactions.

Teaching

AR2035 - The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

Selected Recent Publications

Quercia A. 2011 ‘Forge e ferro dell’Italia meridionale in età romana’ in Archeometallurgia: dalla conoscenza alla fruizione. Edited by C. Giardino. Bari: Edipuglia, pp. 193-213. For a pdf of the article, click here

Quercia A., Johnston A., Bevan A., Conolly J. and A. Tsaravopoulos. 2011: Roman Pottery from an Intensive Survey of Antikythera, Greece. Annual of the British School at Athens 106: 47-98. To access the article, click here.

Quercia A. 2011. ‘Typological and morphological remarks upon some vessels in the repertoire of pottery in Punic Malta' in Ceramics of the Phoenician-Punic World: Collected Essays. Edited by C. Sagona. Leuven: Peeters (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, suppl. 36), pp. 433-45.  For a pdf of the article, click here.

De Venuto G. and A. Quercia 2010. ‘Le statuette fittili di cane in Magna Grecia: la documentazione archeologica e il dato archeozoologico’, in 5° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia, Rovereto 2006. Edited by A. Tagliacozzo, I. Fiore, S. Marconi and U. Tecchiati, pp. 229-233. Rovereto: Edizioni Osiride.  pdf available here

Quercia A. 2008. ‘Le ceramiche comuni di età romana”, in  Horti et Sordes. Uno scavo alle falde del Gianicolo. Edited by F. Filippi, pp. 141-176  Roma: Edizioni Quasar.

Giardino C. and A. Quercia 2008. ‘Metallurgy in ancient Lecce: new evidence from the excavations of Piazzetta Epulione and Piazzetta Castromediano’, in Charcoals From the Past: Cultural and Palaeoenvironmental Implications, Proceedings of the Third International Meeting of Anthracology, Cavallino - Lecce 2004. Edited by G. Fiorentino and D. Magri, pp. 129-138 (British Archaeological Reports. International series,  1807) Oxford: Archaeopress.

Quercia A. 2007. La ceramica punico-maltese del santuario di Tas Silg: analisi tipologica e funzionale, in Un luogo di culto al centro del Mediterraneo: il santuario di Tas Silg dalla Preistoria all’età Bizantina. Atti del seminario di studi, Roma, 2005. Scienze dell’Antichità. Storia, Archeologia, Antropologia 12 (2004-2005): 335-354.

Research

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