Professional profile
Archaeology | Material Culture | Settlement Dynamics | Iconography | Cultural Interactions
I am an archaeologist of Ancient Western Asia with a focus on the study of the societies that developed between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. My research interests primarily include the analysis and classification of material culture, territorial organization, and public architecture of the civilizations of Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia.
CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors
- SH6_3 Archaeology of early literate societies and early civilizations
- SH6_8 Ancient history, medieval history
- SH6_2 Prehistoric archaeology, archaeology of non-literate societies
MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector
- STAA-01/E Archaeology and Art History of Ancient Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean
Groups & Labs CNR ISPC
Ancient Near East Research Group →
Publications
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F. Balossi Restelli, M. Cozzolino, F. Manuelli, P. Mauriello (2025), The Characterization of the Lower Town of the UNESCO Archaeological Site of Arslantepe (Malatya, Türkiye) Using the Geophysical E-PERTI Method (Extended Data-Adaptive Probability-Based Electrical Resistivity Tomography Inversion Method), in Heritage 8, 37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8020037
P. Fragnoli, F. Manuelli (2023), Petrographic and geochemical analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery assemblages from Arslantepe (Malatya, Türkiye): Insights into the local organization of the production and extra-regional networks of exchange”, in Archaeological and Anthropological Science 15, 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01802-8
F. Manuelli, D.P. Mielke (2022), Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State. Papers Presented at a Workshop Held at the 11th ICAANE (Munich 4 April 2018) and Additional Contributions, Archaeopress, Oxford, 320 pp.
