Dr Andrea Vianello's website
Aegean and Mediterranean Archaeology
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 Intute's 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)
Changing gestures and body language in the European Bronze Age (2005); a printed version of this paper is in press.
Rituals as language (2004).
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
some more thoughts and notes have been published in Intute's blog
Book
(cover page and abstract only)
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:
I have presented papers at several conferences, and some of these presentations will appear in this website.
I list here some more publications of mine. In addition to these, I am also writing one book and editing another one.
Vianello, A. (in press) One Sea For All: Intercultural, Social And Economic Contacts In The Bronze Age Mediterranean. In Duistermaat, K. (ed.) Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean. Proceedings of the conference held in Cairo, 26 - 29 October 2008, by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.
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". 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.
Giorgetti, G. (2003) Troia. In "La Macchina del Tempo", April 2003, pp. 55-58. [Interview on Bronze Age Troy for an Italian archaeological magazine.]