Andrea Vianello

Publications

I publish here some writings, notes, papers about my research projects. In the future, I hope to develop this page into a full list of publications, with some papers freely downloadable where possible. However, I want this space to be a place also for some notes and comments that I cannot develop further, but could be useful to others. Of course, many random writings end up in  blog.

I start with some early essays originally written in partial fulfillment of my MA or prompted by discussions with fellow students and staff then. None of these writings is a postgraduate essay as it was submitted, some never were an essay in first place, and some of them focus on specialist topics that may be too advanced for undergraduates. The English language in the "early writings" is occasionally less than optimal (I know, sorry!), but it is intelligible and I do not plan to review them.

I wrote a few papers for semioticon.com, a website published by the University of Toronto. These are showing the relevance of the study of human behaviours to chronological periods later than those traditionally the focus of such research, and these papers try to provide an overview of such studies applied to a very long portion of human history. Such long perspective is also useful to see how the materialistic, consumistic world archaeologists study and most of us lament in current public life, is a very recent development of our history.

Probing Ancient Landscapes: the semiotics of space, water, and fire (2009)

Tourism and conservation: a difficult relationship (2008) [Session homepage]

Changing gestures and body language in the European Bronze Age (2005) [Session homepage]

Rituals as language (2004) [Seminar homepage]. The second edition is also available.

Stone Age symbolic behaviours: questions and prospects (2003). A new version (updated in October 2006) entitled Gestures and rituals: the archaeological evidence is also available online.

Notes on

Death of Oetzi the Iceman

Consciousness

some more thoughts and notes have been published in Intute's blog

Books

• Late Bronze Age Mycenaean and Italic Products in the West Mediterranean
  A social and economic analysis (abstract and gazetteer)
• Exotica in the Prehistoric Mediterranean (abstract and table of contents)

About my 2006 project on rock art and landscape near Philippi, Greece, a preliminary note has been published in Antiquity Volume 81 Number 311, 3 2007:

Post-Palaeolithic engravings at Philippi in eastern Macedonia, Greece: rock art in the land of the Hedones

I have presented papers at several conferences, and some of these presentations will appear in this website.

Website reviews (published in the CSA Newsletter):

Vianello, A. (2011) Website Review: Kerma. CSA Newsletter Vol. XXIV, No. 1 - April, 2011 (posted on 18 April 2011). http://csanet.org/newsletter/spring11/nls1103.html

Vianello, A. (2011) Website Review: Petras Excavations. CSA Newsletter Vol. XXIII, No. 3 - January, 2011 (posted on 31 January 2011). http://csanet.org/newsletter/winter11/nlw1103.html

Vianello, A. (2010) Website Review: Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean. CSA Newsletter Vol. XXIII, No. 1 - April, 2010 (posted on 29 April 2010). http://csanet.org/newsletter/spring10/nls1003.html

Reviews

Vianello, A. (2011) Review of "Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity" by Bryan E. Burns, 2010, American Journal of Archaeology 115 (2).

Vianello, A. (2011) Review of "Archaic State Interaction: the Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age", edited by William A. Parkinson & Michael L. Galaty, 2009, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21(1), 159-161.

Selected printed publications

Vianello, A. (2011)  One sea for all: intercultural, social and economic contacts in the Bronze Age Mediterranean. In in K. Duistermaat and I. Regulski, (eds) "Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean". Leuven: Peeters. (Peer reviewed, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta series).

Vianello, A. (ed.; 2011) "Exotica in the prehistoric Mediterranean". Oxbow, Oxford.

Vianello, A. (2010). Problems of identity for Mycenaean figurines. In Gheorghiu, D. and Cyphers, A. (eds) "Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Miniature Figures in Eurasia, Africa and Meso-America: Morphology, materiality, technology, function and context", pp. 73-77. BAR International Series, Oxford.

Vianello, A. (2009). FOREWORD. Art and Archaeology: a new Synthesis. In Gheorghiu, D. "Artchaeology", pp. 7-23. Unarte, Bucharest. CNCSIS grant no. 945.

Vianello, A. (2009) Exchanges of Aegean-type products in the West Mediterranean between Bronze Age and Iron Age. In Bachhuber, C. and G. Roberts. "Forces of Transformation", pp 44-50. Oxbow, Oxford.

Vianello, A. (2008) Late Bronze Age Aegean Trade Routes in the Western Mediterranean. In Whittaker von Hofsten, H. (ed.) "The Aegean Bronze Age in Relation to the Wider European Context". BAR S1745, Oxford.

Vianello, A. (2008) The ship and its symbolism in European prehistory. In Coimbra, F. and G. Dimitriadis (eds) "Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006), 23, Cognitive Archaeology as Symbolic Archaeology". BAR S1737, Oxford.