dr. L. (Luca) Alessandri

Education

High School title: State Scientific High School "Federigo Enriques", Ostia (RM), 1992, mark 50/60.

Graduated in Letters (Laurea: M.A. equivalent) at the University of Rome “a Sapienza, on December 13th, 2001 (academic year 2000-2001; personal code10114093); thesis discussed with prof. Renato Peroni (professor of European Protohistory) and dr. Annalisa Zarattini (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio); subject L’occupazione costiera protostorica del Lazio centromeridionale (The occupation of the coastal fringe of central and southern Latium during Protohistory); graduation mark 110/110 cum laude.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, on October 29th, 2009. Promotors Prof. dr P.A.J. Attema (professor of Mediterranean Archaeology) and prof.  Renato Peroni (professor of European Protohistory); subject Il Lazio centromeridionale nelle età del Bronzo e del Ferro(Bronze Age and Iron Age in the central south Latium).

  

Field Research Activity

Excavations

Grotta di Pastena (Pastena, FR), Middle Bronze Age cave burials and cultual activities, September 2018

Grotta la Sassa (Sonnino, LT), Pleistocene, Copper Age inhumations, Middle Bronze Age, collaborating with the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", July 2018

Caprolace (Sabaudia, LT), Middle Bronze Age settlement, Late Bronze Age salt production site, collaborating with the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", July 2017

Grotta la Sassa (Sonnino, LT), Pleistocene, Copper Age inhumations, Middle Bronze Age, collaborating with the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", July 2017

Puntone (Scarlino, GR), Iron Age salt production structures, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo, October 2016

Grotta la Sassa (Sonnino, LT), Pleistocene, Copper Age inhumations, Middle Bronze Age, collaborating with the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", July 2016

Grotta La Porta (Vietri di Potenza, PZ), Middle Bronze Age, collaborating with the Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, September 2014

Via Laurentina (RM), Roman cappuccina tombs, Archaic and Roman republican agricultural structures, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, July 2013 – May 2014

Via Ardeatina (RM), test trenches, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, February 2013

Via Grandidier (RM) test trenches,collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, October 2012

Via della Castelluccia di San Paolo (RM), Roman villa, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, October 2011 - January 2012

Catacomba dei Giordani (RM), topographical survey of new catacomb branches and survey of new Roman subterranean caves, collaborating with Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, August 2011

Via delle Cosmee (RM), Archaic and Roman agricultural structures, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, October 2010 - March 2011

Via della Bufalotta (RM), Busta Sepulchra and cappuccina tombs, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, March - August 2010

Via Paolo Rosi (RM), Roman well, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, November - December 2009

Via Latina (RM), Roman cave, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, August 2009

Via Ardeatina (RM), Roman structures, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, July 2009

Via Pian Savelli (RM), Roman Via Glareata, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, January - April 2009

Via Baseggio (RM), Archaic water tank, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, March - July 2008

Via Gaetano Martino (RM), Roman water tanks and conduits, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, May - November 2007, febbraio 2008

Parco Talenti (RM), Roman well, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, June 2004

Via Lucrezia Romana, Osteria del Curato (RM), defense structures (walls and ditch) and tombs of the Final Bronze age, May 2002, June 2002, July 2002

Via Salaria, Tenuta Malpasso (RM), test trenches, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, January 2002

Montale (MO), enbanked settlement (terramara) of the Middle-Late Bronze age, collaborating with the Museo Civico Archeologico Etnologico of Modena, July 2000, October 2000, July 2001

Via di Settebagni, Tenuta Radicicoli (RM), Roman villa and archaic buildings, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, February 2000, August 2000, November 2000, February – May 2001, March 2002

Blera (VT), cave with Middle Bronze age deposits, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l’Etruria Meridionale, June 1998

Foggia – Race-course (FG), neolithic village, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Puglia, March 1998

S. Ferdinando di Puglia (FG), hypogea of the Middle Bronze age, collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Puglia, February-March 1998

Rieti, Cotilia Thermae (RI), thermal building in use since the second half of the II cent. b.C., collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Lazio, August 1997

Veio (RM), analysis and test excavations of exposed profiles with a sequence from the Iron to the Roman age, collaborating with the Chair of Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte Greca e Romana of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, May 1997

Centocelle, Sistema Direzionale Orientale – S.D.O. (RM), Roman villa (“ad duos lauros”) with data from the Republican age to the VI cent. A.D., collaborating with Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma, May-June 1996

Crustumerium, Monte del Bufalo (RM), cemetery with tombs from the IX to the VI cent. b.C., collaborating with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, February-March 1996, July 1997

Milazzo, v.le dei Cipressi (ME), settlement on promontory, with stratigraphic sequence from the Ancient/Middle to the Final Bronze age, collaborating with the Sezione archeologica della Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina, November 1995

Broglio di Trebisacce (CS), terrace settlement in a hilly environment, with stratified sequence from the Middle Bronze to the Early Iron age (XVII-VIII cent. b.C.), collaborating with the Chair of Protostoria Europea of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Since 2000 member of the research tem, with specific tasks on Final Bronze Age fine painted pottery (Protogeometric figulina ware) and on landscape study. From 1995 to 2007.

Roma – Palatine hill, northern slope (RM), layers dating from IX cent. b.C. to early medieval, collaborating with the Chair of Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte Greca e Romana of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, October-November 1994, October 1995

Frattocchie (RM), Roman mausoleum and probable statio on the Via Appia, collaborating with the Gruppo Archeologico Ostiense and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, May-June 1992 (about 20 days), May-June 1993 (about 20 days)

Nemi – Sanctuary of Diana (RM), Roman age collaborating with the Gruppo Archeologico Latino and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, May-June 1990 (about 20 days), May-June 1991 (about 20 days)

           

Surveys

Scuba surveys in front of S. Severa (RM), collaborating with the Gruppo Archeologico Santa Severa and the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l’Etruria Meridionale, July 1992

Inside the ancient settlement of Crustumerium(RM), collaborating with the Gruppo Archeologico Romano and the  Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, 1995 (10 days)

Surface surveys and stratigraphic analysis of exposed profiles in the coastal fringe of central and southern (modern) Latium, collaborating with the Chair of Protostoria Europea of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, January-February 1999, March 2000, January-February 2001

Along the Astura River (LT), collaborating with Groningen Institute of Archaeology and Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, June-July 2003

Coastal fringe between Torrente Fiumarella and Vallone Galliporo (CZ), collaborating with Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Calabria, luglio 2003

 

Cataloging

Museo di Monte Porzio Catone, (direttore M. Valenti): protohistorical sherds from old surveys

Antiquarium di Nettuno, (direttore A. Liboni): protohistorical sherds from old surveys and private donations (forthcoming in the Nettuno Archaeological Map)

Conferences and Workshops

2015 – International conference (Cambridge) “Craft and Production in the European Iron Age”.  I presented a paper (with B. M. Aranguren, P. Attema, M. R. Cinquegrana and Marco Pacciarelli): Salt and Protohistoric Society in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

2015 – Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologists (Glasgow). “Diffusion and transformation of burial practices in the Italian Peninsula. Investigating the connections between funerary customs in Europe and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age”. I presented a paper (with F. di Gennaro): Funerary practices in the second millennium BCE in central Tyrrhenian Italy: traditional and new models and their connections with social development,

2015 – Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologists (Glasgow). Main author of the session “Diffusion and transformation of burial practices in the Italian Peninsula. Investigating the connections between funerary customs in Europe and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age”

2013 – International conference (Groningen) “Italian urbanisation and state formation”.  I presented a paper: A regional analysis of Bronze and Iron Age settlements in Latium Vetus. Territories, patterns, and (different) trajectories

2010 - International conference (Provadia) “Salz und Gold. Die Rolle des Salzes im prähistorischen Europa”. I presented a paper (with P. Attema): Salt production on the Tyrrhenian coast in South Lazio (Italy) during the Late Bronze Age: its significance for understanding contemporary society

2005 – International conference (Rome) “Strategie di insediamento fra Lazio e Campania in età preistorica e protostorica”. I presented a paper (with P. Attema, M. van Leusen, C. Anastasia): Land systems insediamenti e strategie di sussistenza nella protostoria della regione pontina

2004 – International conference (Ghent) "Defining villas, farms, hamlets and villages in ancient Mediterranean landscapes". I presented a paper: Site definition and geomorphology

2003 – International conference (Groningen) “Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval Period”. I presented two papers: , L'occupazione costiera nell'età del Bronzo media, recente e finale nel Lazio centromeridionale and L'area di Lucrezia Romana-Osteria del Curato (Roma). Ricerche su un comprensorio peri-insediativo della tarda età del Bronzo (the latter with Egidi R., di Gennaro F., Barbaro B., Di Renzoni A., Favorito S., Iaia C., Sabatini S., Schiappelli A.)

2002 – International conference (Ghent) “Mediterranean field survey”. I presented a paper: Landscape and human settlement in coastal southern Latium during the Bronze age and Iron age

2002 – International conference (Scalea) “Preistoria e protostoria della Calabria”. I presented two papers: Il Bronzo finale nella Calabria settentrionale (with Cassetta I., Gatti D.) and Nuovi dati dal territorio tra Torrente Fiumarella e Vallone Galliporo (Catanzaro) (with Campanella R., Righini D.) 

Computer skills

Operation systems: Dos, Windows (XP, Vista, Seven), Linux

Languages: SQL, SGML (HTML, XML)

Web publishing: Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, CSS

Content Management System: Joomla!

Database and statistical packages: Microsoft Access, MySQL, WinBasp

GIS: ESRI ArcGis 9.x, 10.x

Office: Suite Microsoft (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw

Print Publishing: Adobe Indesign

 

Portfolio

Teaching in European Computer Driving License (Regione Lazio, 2008)

Education panels for  Broglio di Trebisacce Archaeological Park

Education panels on protohistory for the Roccelletta di Borgia National Museum

Website: Centro di Riabilitazione Vaclav Vojta (offline)

Website: Videoteca Navona (offline)

Website: Gruppo Grotte Castelli Romani (online, www.ggcr.org)

Website: personal website for myself (online, www.archeonet.org)

Website: Gruppo Archeologico Latino (online, www.gruppoarcheologicolatino.org)

 

Scuba Licences

Open Water Diver (one star) C.M.A.S. (Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subacquatiques) – F.I.P.S. (Federazione Italiana Pesca Subacquea) (1990)

O.T.A.S. (Operatore Tecnico in Archeologia Subacquea – Technical archaeological scuba operator) (1991)

Advanced Scuba Diver (two star) C.M.A.S. – F.I.P.S. (1992)

Master Scuba Diver (three star) C.M.A.S. – F.I.P.S. (1994)

Scuba Rescue Diver N.A.U.I. (National Association of Underwater Instructor) (1996)

Instructor H.S.A. Italia (Handicapped Scuba Association) (1997)

Skin Diving Instructor N.A.U.I. (1997)

Divemaster N.A.U.I. (1998)

Divemaster  H.S.A. (1998)

Instructor (one star) C.M.A.S. N.A.D.D. (National Association Diving Disabled) (2000)

Nitrox Diver N.A.D.D. (2010)

 

Publications

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

Alessandri L., 2018, The early and Middle Bronze Age (1/2) in South and central Tyrrhenian Italy and their connections with the Avellino eruption: An overview, Quaternary International

Belardelli C., Alessandri L., Aranguren B. M., Attema P. A. J., Cinquegrana M. R., Montagnari Kokelj M., Negroni Catacchio N., Pacciarelli M. Il Sale. Record archeologico, produzione e manipolazione, in atti della L Riunione Scientifica dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Preistoria del cibo. L’alimentazione nella preistoria e nella protostoria (submitted)

De Neef, W., Alessandri L., Burkart U., Rolfo M. F. 2017, Grot, bot, pot, weerstandsplot. Archeologisch en geofysisch en onderzoek in de grot La Sassa (Lazio, Italië), in Paleoaktueel 28, p. 27-32

Alessandri L., 2016, Exploring territories: Bubble Model and Minimum Number of Contemporary Settlements: A case study from Etruria and Latium Vetus from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, Origini, XXXVII, 173–197

Alessandri L., 2016, Hierarchical and federative polities in protohistoric Latium Vetus. An analysis of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age settlement organization, in Proceedings of a specialist conference at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Early states, territories and settlements in protohistoric Central Italy, a cura di P. A. J. Attema, J. Seubers, e S. Willemsen, Corollaria Crustumina 2, 67–82

Attema P.A.J, Alessandri L. 2012, Salt production on the Tyrrhenian coast in South Lazio (Italy) during the Late Bronze Age: its significance for understanding contemporary society, Proceedings of the Conference “Salz und Gold” Die Rolle des Salzes im prähistorischen Europa, Provadia, Bulgaria, Humboldt-Stiftung, 2010, pag. 287-300

Attema P., van Leusen M., Alessandri L., Anastasia C. 2007, Land systems insediamenti e strategie di sussistenza nella protostoria della regione pontina, in Proceedings of XL Riunione Scientifica dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Strategie di insediamento fra Lazio e Campania in età preistorica e protostorica, Firenze, pag. 657-670

Alessandri L., Barbina P. 2007, Materiali protostorici dal promontorio del Circeo, in Proceedings of XL Riunione Scientifica dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Strategie di insediamento fra Lazio e Campania in età preistorica e protostorica, Firenze, p. 873-876

Alessandri L. Cassetta I., Gatti D. 2004, Il Bronzo finale nella Calabria settentrionale, in Proceedings of XXXVII Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Preistoria e protostoria della Calabria, Scalea, Papasidero, Praia a Mare, Tortora, 29.9-4.10.2002, Firenze

Alessandri L. 2005, L'occupazione costiera nell'età del Bronzo media, recente e finale nel Lazio centromeridionale, in Attema P., Nijboer A., Zifferero A., con Satijn O., Alessandri L., Bierma M., Bolhuis E. (edited by), Papers in Italian Archaeology VI, Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval Period, BAR International Series 1452, p. 637-645

Egidi R., di Gennaro F., Barbaro B., Alessandri L., Di Renzoni A., Favorito S., Iaia C., Sabatini S., Schiappelli A. 2005, L'area di Lucrezia Romana-Osteria del Curato (Roma). Ricerche su un comprensorio peri-insediativo della tarda età del Bronzo, in Attema P., Nijboer A., Zifferero A., con Satijn O., Alessandri L., Bierma M., Bolhuis E. (edited by), Papers in Italian Archaeology VI, Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval Period, BAR International Series 1452, p. 666-672

Alessandri L., Campanella R., Righini D. 2005, Nuovi dati dal territorio tra Torrente Fiumarella e Vallone Galliporo (Catanzaro), in Proceedings of XXXVII Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Preistoria e protostoria della Calabria, Scalea, Papasidero, Praia a Mare, Tortora, 29.9-4.10.2002, Firenze, p. 819-823

Vanzetti A., Alessandri L., Barbaro B., Cassetta I., Castagna M.A., Gatti D., Sabatini S., Schiappelli A. 2003, Milazzo (ME) - Distribuzione della ceramica e uso degli spazi della Capanna 1 di viale dei Cipressi (facies di Capo Graziano), in Proceedings of XXXV Riunione Scientifica dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Le comunità della preistoria italiana. Studi e ricerche sul Neolitico e le Età dei metalli, Lipari 2-7.6.2000

NATIONAL JOURNALS

Alessandri L., Del Fattore F. R., Schiappelli A. 2014, Scanno (AQ): ricerche di superficie nel territorio. Primi risultati, in Quaderni di Archeologia d'Abruzzo, Notiziario Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Abruzzo, p. 384-391

Alessandri L. 2013, Ceramica d’impasto, Museo della Città di Monte Porzio Catone. Catalogo scientifico I, Sezione archeologica e Storico artistica, Tusculana, Quaderni del Museo di Monte Porzio Catone 6, Roma

Alessandri L. 2007, Il territorio di Nettuno nell'età del Bronzo, in Proceedings of the Congress Le Carte Archeologiche di Anzio e Nettuno, Anzio, p. 51-58

Alessandri L. 2006 , Protohistorische vindplaatsen in en rond Tusculum (gemeente Monte Porzio Catone, Albaanse heuvels, Italie), in Paleo-Aktueel 17, pag. 99-102
Tunzi Sisto A.M., Moffa C., Alessandri L., Corazza V., Di Renzoni A. 1999, L'ipogeo 5 di Terra di Corte, San Ferdinando di Puglia (Foggia). Rapporto preliminare, in Proceedings of XIX Convegno Nazionale sulla Preistoria - Protostoria - Storia della Daunia, II, p. 237-253

BOOK

Alessandri L. 2007, L'occupazione costiera protostorica nel Lazio centromeridionale, British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1592. With extended english abstracts

Alessandri L. 2013, Il Lazio centro-meridionale nelle età del Bronzo e del Ferro - Settlement and Landscape in southern Lazio during the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age -, British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 2565. With english conclusions

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

Alessandri L. 2018, Inquadramento geoambientale e testimonianze umane delle fasi pre- e protostoriche , in M. Torelli, E. Marroni (eds), Castrum Inui. Il santuario di Inuus alla foce del Fosso dell'Incastro, Monumenti Antichi Lincei, 76, p. 39-62

Alessandri L. 2011, Bronze age, in Attema P., de Haas T., Tol G. (eds), Between Satricum and Antium: settlement dynamics in a coastal landscape in Latium Vetus, p. 43-46 and 126-140

Alessandri L. 2009, Insediamenti dell'età del Bronzo (XVII-XI sec. a.C.), in Nettuno. Il territorio dalla preistoria al medioevo (eds. Attema, P., De Haas, T. Tol, G.W.), Nettuno, p. 43-48

Alessandri L., Tol G. 2007, Cretarossa/San Rocco, in Repertorio dei siti protostorici del Lazio. Province di Roma, Viterbo e Frosinone, edited by C. Belardelli, M. Angle, F. di Gennaro, F. Trucco, Roma, p. 215-218

Alessandri L. 2007, Fosso Foglino, in Repertorio dei siti protostorici del Lazio. Province di Roma, Viterbo e Frosinone, edited by di C. Belardelli, M. Angle, F. di Gennaro, F. Trucco, Roma, p. 218-219

Alessandri L. 2007, Saracca, in Repertorio dei siti protostorici del Lazio. Province di Roma, Viterbo e Frosinone, edited by di C. Belardelli, M. Angle, F. di Gennaro, F. Trucco, Roma, p. 224-225

Alessandri L, Campanella R., Righini D. 2005, L’età preistorica e protostorica, in Scolacium: una città romana in Calabria: il Museo e il parco archeologico, edited by R. Spadea, Milanoo