Associate Prof. Mag. Dr. Marta Luciani, Private lecturer

Associate Professor of Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

Contact information and courses at the University of Vienna

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Publications

 

Research Interests

  • Settlement and funerary archaeology of Bronze and Iron Age Mesopotamia, Syria, the Levant, Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula
  • Landscape archaeology
  • Methods and techniques of field archaeology
  • Gender archaeology in the Ancient Near East
  • Historical geography and regional studies of Syria and Mesopotamia
  • Capacity building: Training and empowering female colleagues in present today's Near East
  • Member of the Forschungsschwerpunkt "Visuelle Kulturgeschichte - Kulturen und Medien des Visuellen"/“Visual Cultural History – Cultures and Media of the Visual”

 

 

Current projects

  • Northwest Sulaimaniyah Survey and Excavations at Chemchemal, Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan (German Archaeological Institute/DAI, University of Vienna and Sulaimaniyah Directorate of Antiquities)
  • Study of the excavation records and glyptic material from ancient Nuzi, Harvard Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
  • Archaeological Project at Qurayyah, Saudi Arabia (University of Vienna and Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage/SCTH)

 

Curriculum Vitae (abridged)

Education

1991
M.A. (laurea) in Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Padua, Italy, with honours

1996 
PhD in Mesopotamian Studies, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy with Three-year full PhD scholarship

1999 
Postdoc Specialization (specializzazione) in Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, with honours, University of Pisa, Italy with Three-year full Specialization scholarship

2007 
Habilitation at the University of Vienna, Austria: venia legendi for Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East

 

Track Record

since 1986
over 40 campaigns of archaeological excavations and surveys in Italy, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Of these the more recent are:

1999-2005 
Vice-Director of the Italian component of the joint mission at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna, Syria (Universities of Udine and Verona)

2004-2005 
Field director of the Italian team within the joint research project at Tavium, province of Yozgat, Turkey (Universities of Klagenfurt, Udine, Verona and Trieste)

2007-2012 
Head of the training programme in archaeological conservation and museum management for Saudi Arabian female graduate students and museum employees at the National Museum, Riyadh (German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD, German Archaeological Institute/DAI, Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities/SCTA, King Saud University, Riyadh)

since 2011 
Co-Director of the German-Austrian Northwest Sulaimaniyah Survey and Excavations at Chemchemal, Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan (DAI, University of Vienna and Sulaimaniyah Directorate of Antiquities)

since 2013 
Study of the excavation records and glyptic material from ancient Nuzi, Harvard Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

since 2014 
Director of the Archaeological Project at Qurayyah, Saudi Arabia (University of Vienna and Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage /SCTH)

 

University positions

2000-2001
Contract Professor for Middle and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Udine (Gorizia), Italy

2000-2004 
Researcher positions on archaeological projects at the University of Udine, Italy

2003-2008 
Contract Professor for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Verona, Italy

since 2004 
Lecturer of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

since 2010
Tenure as Lecturer of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

since 2011 
Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

since 2014 
Tenured Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna

2015-2016 
Adjunct Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York, NY, USA

since 2019 
Tenured Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna

 

Keynote lectures, invited talks and dissemination (of the last 2 years)

07.12.2018
Keynote Lecture @ International Workshop CLEAR: Holocene CLimatic Events in northern ARabia – Environmental changes and human response: Anthropogenic Landscapes and Oasis Formation

15.06.2018 
Freie Universität, Berlin: Archäometallurgie in der Oase Qurayyah

04.05.2018
German Archaeological Institute, Berlin: The Early Bronze Age seen from Qurayyah

18.04.2018 
Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna: Ein neues Siegel aus Nuzi: The Long Life of a Royal Seal and Nuzi Bullae in the Harvard Semitic Museum

11.04.2018 
Institute for Applied Geology (IAG), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna: Landscape and Archaeology: integrating geomorphology and anthropic evidence at the oasis of Qurayyah (NW Arabia)

05.04.2018 
11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Munich: Mobility and the genesis of oasis settlement

28.03.2018 
Keynote Lecture @ Durham University, 2018 BANEA: THE DESERT AND THE SEAS. Key Issues in the Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula

11.11.2017 
Internationale Buchmesse Wien: Presentation (by M. Adelhofer) of the book Luciani M. ed. 2016 The archaeology of north Arabia: Oases and landscapes. Proceedings of the International Congress held at the University of Vienna, December 5-8, 2013, OREA series 4. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences

07.11.2017 
1st KSA Antiquities Forum, Riyadh: Current Issues in the Archaeology of Arabia: A View from the North West

05.08.2017 
British Museum, Seminar for Arabian Studies: Life and living conditions in NW Arabia during the Bronze Age. First results from the bioarchaeological work at Qurayyah

05.08.2017 
British Museum, Seminar for Arabian Studies: The New Archaeological Joint Project on the Site of Qurayyah, NW Arabia: Results of the First Two Excavation Seasons

05.07.2017 
University of Warsaw: Bronze Age Precursors of the Red Sea Route

09.05.2017 
University of Vienna: Desert Landscapes and their Oases: Material Culture of the Strategic Peripheries between Connectivity and Mobility

22.03.2017 
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna: Südlich der südlichen Levante. Neue Forschungen aus dem Norden der Arabischen Halbinsel

08.02.2017 
German Archaeological Institute, Berlin: Archäologie im “Land Midian”: Schnittstelle zwischen Levante und Arabien

 

Languages

Italian
German
English
French
Spoken Arabic