Dr Valeria Tiezzi

Department of Greek and Roman Archaeology

v.tiezzi(at)iaepan.edu.pl

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valeria-Tiezzi
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0331-6791

Research interests:

My research focuses on the transmission of technological knowledge and the social organisation of pottery production in the Mediterranean region throughout Later Prehistory. Employing a multi-scalar chaîne opératoire perspective, I integrate ceramic petrography, manufacturing trace analysis, and other analytical techniques to explore long-term technological choices and networks between distinct communities of practice from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age.

Current project:

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the project ‘From the first to the last Mycenaeans in the area of the Gulf of Volos’ (PI: Bartłomiej Lis, Grant from the National Science Centre, under the program SONATA BIS, 2020/38/E/HS3/00512), exploring the provenance of imported Transport Stirrup Jars and other maritime transport containers retrieved at the Late Bronze Age harbour of Pefkakia in Thessaly (north-central Greece), using ceramic petrography as the main analytical method.

Publications:

• Amicone, S., Tiezzi, V., Broisch-Höhner, M., Freund, K., Heinze, L., Morandi, L., Salis, G., Pilo, C. (forthcoming), Ritual and connectivity in Nuragic Sardinia: an interdisciplinary study of ceramics and metalwork from Nuraghe Barru.
• Tiezzi V., Amicone S., Heinze L., Miari M., Volante N., Berthold C. (2024), Investigating figulina pottery technology in the southern Po Plain through an integrated archaeometric approach. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55: 104473 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104473.
• Tiezzi V., Bonizzoni L., Castiglioni E., Gabusi R., Galli A., Maspero F., Miari M., Rottoli M., Sala I. (2023), The Neolithic settlement of Ozzano dell'Emilia (Bologna). A site at a crossroads of interactions in the Po Plain. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, LXXIII: 71-108 – https://doi.org/10.32097/1212