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Nicoletta Momigliano
Reader in Aegean Prehistory
Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Pisa), MA, PhD (London)
Telephone: +44 (0)117 954 6082
E-mail: n.momigliano@bristol.ac.uk
Biographical information
- 1978-82: Laurea in Lettere Classiche, University of Pisa
- 1983-4: MA Institute of Archaeology, University of London.
- 1985-89: PhD, University College London
- 1990-1993: non-stipendiary JRF, Wolfson College and Research Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- 1993-1996: Richard Bradford McConnell Research Fellow in Aegean Archaeology, Balliol College.
- 1996-1998: Lecturer in Archaeology, Dept. of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford.
- 1998-Present: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology and Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol.
- January 2003: Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
- Spring 2004: Visiting Fellow, ICEVO (CNR) Rome.
- 2005-Present: Deputy Director, Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition.
- 2007-2010: Editor, Annual of the British School of Athens.
- 2011: Visiting Fellowships at Cincinnati and RCAC (Istanbul); AHRC Fellowship.
Nicoletta has also organised several international conferences, workshops, and symposia, and has worked on many excavations, surveys, and other archaeological projects in Italy, Crete, Jordan, and Turkey.
In 1993 she co-directed excavations at Knossos, with D.E. Wilson. See N. Momigliano and David Wilson, 1996. ‘Knossos 1993: Excavations outside the South Front of the Palace’, Annual of the British School at Athens 91: 1-59.
From 1998-2004 she co-directed (with Prof. M. Benzi and Dr P. Belli) the BACI (Bronze Age Carian Iasos) project, which aims at publishing the Bronze Age discoveries from D. Levi and C. Laviosa’s excavations at this multi-period site.
Since August 2008 she has directed a new archaeological project at Çaltılar (Lycia, SW Turkey), in collaboration with Dr T. Hodos (Bristol University), A. Greaves (Liverpool University) and B. Aksoy (Bursa University).
Main research interests
- Aegean Prehistory
- Minoan archaeology, especially the archaeology of Knossos
- History of Aegean Bronze Age studies
- Ceramics
- Bronze Age Anatolia
- Anatolian/Aegean interactions
Selected publications
Monographs and edited volumes
- N. Momigliano (ed.) 2007. Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan). London: British School at Athens (BSA Studies vol. 14).
- Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano (eds.) 2006. Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’. Special volume of Creta Antica 7, Padua: Ausilio, Bottega d’Erasmo.
- N. Momigliano, 1999. Duncan Mackenzie: a Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos
at Knossos. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplementary Volume 72, University of London. Selected as Book of the Month (June 1999) by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. - D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock and N. Momigliano (eds.) 1994. Knossos: A Labyrinth of History. Papers in Honour of Sinclair Hood (Oxford: British School at Athens and Oxbow Books)
Recent articles, conference papers, etc.
- N. Momigliano, A. Greaves, T. Hodos, B. Aksoy, A. Brown, M. Kibaroglu, and T. Carter, 2011. ‘Settlement History and Material Culture in Southwest Turkey: Report on the 2008-10 Survey at Çaltılar Höyük (northern Lycia)’, Anatolian Studies 61: 1-61.
- N. Momigliano, 2009. ‘Minoans at Iasos?’, in C. Macdonald, E. Hallager, and W-D. Neiemier (eds.) The Minoans in the central, eastern and northern Aegean: new evidence. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, Vol. 8: 121-40.
BUNEM Project
The Bristol University Near Eastern and Mediterranean (BUNEM) Collections comprise more than 500 artifacts from the Mediterranean region, providing a useful resource for the study of Mediterranean material culture. An online database/catalogue is available through the CONTACT (Collections Networks for Archaeology and Classics Teaching) webpages.