Andrea Polcaro

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Andrea Polcaro (born January 9, 1978 in Rome ) is an Italian prehistorian who deals with the Bronze Age of the Ancient Orient , in particular the archeology of Mesopotamia and Jordan .

In 1998 he participated in the Missione Archeologica Italiana in Siria a Tell Mardikh , the ancient Ebla . He received his doctorate from La Sapienza University in Rome in 2003 and won a Dottorato di Ricerca that same year . He teaches at the Dipartimento di Lettere-Lingue, Letterature e Civiltà Antiche e Moderne at the University of Perugia .

Polcaro carried out excavations in Syria and especially in Jordan and Iraq and worked on a project of UNESCO and the Department of Antiquities of Palestine. From 2012 to 2013 he dug in Nigin , Iraq, and in Jebel al-Muṭawwaq in Jordan. In 2015 he and his colleague Davide Nadali published the handbook Archeologia della Mesopotamia antica .

Publications (selection)

  • Necropoli e costumi funerari in Palestina dal Bronzo Antico I al Bronzo Antico III (= Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale XI), Rome 2006.
  • with Lorenzo Nigro, Maura Sala: Preliminary Report of the Third Season of Excavations by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" at Khirbat al-Batrāwī (Upper Wādī az-Zarqā ') , in: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 52 ( 2008) 209-230.
  • with Daniele Chiriu, Pier Carlo Ricci, Carlo Maria Carbonaro, Davide Nadali, Francesca Mocci: Drying oil detected in mid-third Millennium BC Mesopotamian clay artifacts: Raman spectroscopy and DFT simulation study , in: Microchemical Journal 124 (September 2015).
  • with Davide Nadali: Il Rinascimento sumerico. Nuove scoperte archeologiche in Iraq meridionale , 2015.
  • with Davide Nadali: Archeologia della Mesopotamia antica , Rome 2015. (Handbook)
  • with Davide Nadali: Nigin. La città delle acque , in: Archeologia Viva 173 (2015) 30–40.
  • with Davide Nadali, Lorenzo Verderame: New Inscriptions of Gudea from Tell Surghul / Niĝin, Iraq , in: Journal for Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology 106.1 (2016) 16–21.
  • with Juan Muñiz, Valentín Alvarez: Preliminary results of the first Spanish-Italian excavation campaign to the Jabal al-Muṭawwaq dolmen field, August-September 2012 , in ADAJ 57 (2013) 409-424.
  • with Juan Muñiz, Valentín Alvarez: New Spanish - Italian Excavations at the Jebel al-Mutawwaq Dolmen Field on the Middle Wadi az-Zarqa: Preliminary Results of the 2012 Season , in Studies in the History and Archeology of Jordan XII, Amman 2016, p 477-488.
  • with Juan Muñiz, Valentín Alvarez: The New Spanish-Italian Expedition to the EB I site of Jebel al-Mutawwaq, Middle Wadi az- Zarqa, Jordan: Preliminary Results of the 2012–2013 Campaigns , in: Rolf A. Stucky et al. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archeology of the Ancient Near East, 9-13 June 2014, Basel , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 1633-1645.
  • with Daniele Chiriu, Pier Carlo Ricci, Maddalena Scattini, Marta D'Andrea, Suzanne Richard, Abdulqader Abdullah Qader, Carlo Maria Carbonaro: Portable NIR Raman microspectroscopy investigation on Early Bronze IV pottery (2500–1950 BCE) from Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan , in : Vibrational Spectroscopy 97 (2018) 8-15.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Candidate for a post in archeology and art history ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uniroma1.it
  2. ↑ Nigin. La città delle acque. Iraq meridionale
  3. ↑ Andrea Polcaro, Davide Nadali: Archeologia della Mesopotamia antica , Rome 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Polcaro, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome