Nicoletta Momigliano

Dr Nicoletta Momigliano

Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Pisa), MA, PhD (London)

Reader in Aegean Prehistory

 

School of Humanities
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Bristol
11 Woodland Road
BRISTOL BS8 1TU, UK

Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Bristol
43 Woodland Road
BRISTOL BS8 1UU, UK



Tel: +44 (0) 117 954 6082
Fax: +44 (0) 117 954 6001
E-mail: N.Momigliano@bris.ac.uk

Nicoletta Momigliano

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  • 1978-1982: Laurea in Lettere Classiche, University of Pisa
  • 1983-1984: MA Institute of Archaeology, University of London
  • 1985-1989: PhD, University College London
  • 1990-1993: non-stipendiary JRF, Wolfson College and Research Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  • 1991 Michael Ventris Award (Institute of Classical Studies, University of London)
  • Spring 1992: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
  • 1993-1996:  Richard Bradford McConnell Research Fellow in Aegean Archaeology, Balliol College
  • 1996-1998: Lecturer in Archaeology, Dept. of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford
  • 1998-Present: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology and Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol
  • January 2003:  Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  • Spring 2004:  Visiting Fellow, ICEVO (CNR) Rome
  • 2005-Present:  Deputy Director, Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition
  • October 2007-Present: Editor, Annual of the British School of Athens
  • February 2008-Present: member of ARCANE (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean), Western Anatolia Group

NM has also organised several international conferences, workshops, and symposia, and has worked on many excavations, surveys, and other archaeological projects in Italy, Crete, Jordan, and Turkey. 

In 1993 she co-directed excavations at Knossos, with D.E. Wilson.   See N. Momigliano and David Wilson, 1996. ‘Knossos 1993: Excavations outside the South Front of the Palace’, Annual of the British School at Athens 91: 1-59.  From 1998-2004 she co-directed (with Prof. M. Benzi and Dr P. Belli) the BACI (Bronze Age Carian Iasos) project, which aims at publishing the Bronze Age discoveries from D. Levi and C. Laviosa’s excavations at this multi-period site.

Since 2008 she has directed the Çaltılar Survey Project (Lycia, SW Turkey), in collaboration with Dr T. Hodos (Bristol University), A. Greaves (Liverpool University), B. Aksoy (Bursa University).

Knossos, Crete

                  Knossos, Crete

View of Iasos

                    View of Iasos

Caltilar

       Çaltılar (Lycia, SW Turkey)

Catilar, 2006

        Çaltılar (Lycia, SW Turkey)

Caltilar Team, 2008

              Çaltılar Team, 2008

 Collecting Artefacts at Caltilar, 2008

   Collecting Artefacts at Çaltılar, 2008


Nicoletta Momigliano teaching undergraduates
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Aegean Prehistory
  • Minoan archaeology, especially the archaeology of Knossos
  • History of Aegean Bronze Age studies
  • Ceramics
  • Bronze Age Anatolia
  • Anatolian/Aegean interactions


Nicoletta Momigliano teaching Material Culture to undergraduates


Bristol students working at Iasos (2000)
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS

N. Karadimas (PhD): The foundations of Aegean prehistory, with special reference to chronology and terminology.

P. Kounouclas (PhD): The Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age coastal settlement of Kynos: architecture, spatial organisation and function.

L. Phillips (MPhil): Aegean Prehistoric Collections in Bristol


Bristol students working at Iasos (2000)


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Please see this document for a full list of publications:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/staff/momigliano/nmpublications/

Monographs and edited volumes

Knossos Pottery

 

 

N. Momigliano (ed.) 2007. Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan).  London: British School at Athens (BSA Studies vol. 14).

 

 

 

 

 

Hamilakis & Momigliano 2006

 

Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano (eds.) 2006. Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’.  Special volume of Creta Antica 7, Padua: Ausilio, Bottega d’Erasmo.

See:

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/47523//Location/Oxbow, and/or
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/researchreview/2006/11637627939.html

 

 

 

Duncan Mackenzie: A Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos at Knossos

 

N. Momigliano, 1999. Duncan Mackenzie: a Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos
at Knossos
. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplementary Volume 72, University of London. 

Selected as Book of the Month (June 1999) by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

 

 

 

 

 

Knossos: A Labyrinth of History

 

D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock and N. Momigliano (eds.) 1994.  Knossos: A Labyrinth of History. Papers in Honour of Sinclair Hood (Oxford: British School at Athens and Oxbow Books)

 

 

 

 

 


RECENT ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, ETC.

N. Momigliano, 2006. ‘Sir Arthur Evans, Greek myths, and the Minoans’, in P. Darcque, M. Fotiadis, and O. Polychronopoulou (eds.), Mythos : La Préhistoire Égéenne du XIXe au XXIe Siècle après J.-C. Table Ronde International, Athènes, 21–23 Novembre 2002, Bulletin de Correspondence Hellénique, Suppl. 46. Paris: Ecole Française: 73–80.

N. Momigliano, 2005. ‘Iasos and the Aegean Islands before the Santorini eruption’, in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.) EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference, Athens 14-18 April 2004. AEGAEUM 25; Liège and Austin, Texas: 217-227.

N. Karadimas and N. Momigliano, 2004. ‘On the term “Minoan” before Sir Arthur Evans’s work in Crete (1894)’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo Anatolici  XLVI/2 : 243-258.

N. Momigliano, 2002. ‘Federico Halbherr and Arthur Evans: an archaeological correspondence (1894-1917)’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici  XLIV/2: 263-318.

N. Momigliano, 2000. ‘Knossos 1902, 1905: the Prepalatial and Protopalatial deposits from the
Room of the Jars in the Royal Pottery Stores’, Annual of the British School at Athens  95: 65-105.


BUNEM LogoBUNEM PROJECT

The Bristol University Near Eastern and Mediterranean (BUNEM) Collections comprise more than 500 artefacts from the Mediterranean region, providing a useful resource for the study of Mediterranean material culture. An online database/catalogue is available through the CONTACT (Collections Networks for Archaeology and Classics Teaching) web-pages:

http://www.contact.group.shef.ac.uk/vle2/contact2/project.php?p=354