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Rova, Elena (1959, Italian)
is Researcher and Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). She has been doing fieldwork in Iraq, Turkey and Syria, and is presently vice-Director of the Ca' Foscari University team in the Syro-European excavations at Tell Beydar (Syria). Her main research field is Upper Mesopotamia in the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C., with a special focus on material culture (ceramics and glyptic), comparative stratigraphy and chronology. She is the author of 4 monographic studies, ca 40 scientific articles, and the editor of 2 volumes of collected articles. Among her most relevant publications: Distribution and Chronology of the Nineveh 5 Pottery and of its Culture, (CMAO 2), Roma 1988; Alta Mesopotamia. La preistoria fino al 2000 (Atlante Storico del Vicino Oriente Antico), (eds. M. Liverani, L. Milano), issue 3.1), Roma 1996; The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization: Ninevite 5 Chronology, Economy and Society (Subartu IX), Turnhout 2003 (ed., with H. Weiss).