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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). |