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1 C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E F O R M A T O E U R O P E O / E U R O P E A N F O R M A T PERSONAL INFORMATION Name, Surname Address House number, street name, postcode, city, country MASSIMO CULTRARO Telephone 095/ Fax Mobile Via Nuovalucello 3, CATANIA, Italy 095/ massimo.cultraro@cnr.it massimo.cultraro@tin.it Website Nationality Place and Date of birth Status Italian Catania 23/09/1965 Married (one son) Military Duties Regular Officer ( ), Lieutenant SCIENTIFIC EMPLOYMENT Senior Researcher (Primo Ricercatore), Professional Level II, of the National Council of Researches (CNR), Institute for Archaeological and Monumental Heritage (IBAM), Catania, Italy Researcher full time position, (matr. 8368) of the National Council of Researches (CNR), Institute for Archaeological and Monumental Heritage (IBAM), Catania, Italy Determined-Time Researcher, University of Perugia (Istituto di Studi Comparati per le Società antiche) EDUCATION AND TRAINING Page 1 - Curriculum vitae di 2011 (June-July) CNR- Short-Time Mobility Program, to spend in Austria, Mykenische Kommisionen, Wien (September) Formative Language Training, Goethe Institute Rome, with financial

2 Support by CNR (October-March) CNR-NATO Advanced Grant, spent in Greece, Wiener Laboratory of the American Archaeological School at Athens Research Benefit ( Assegno di Ricerca ), University of Perugia, Istituto di Studi Comparati per le Società Antiche 1999 (February-December) Research Scholarship, University of Perugia, Istituto di Studi Comparati per le Società Antiche (February-December) High Level Master in Prehistory of Aegean and Anatolia World, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 1997 (february-march) Bourse de Recherche, École Française de Archeologie d Athens Ph.D. Studies, University of Pisa, Istituto di Archeologia e Scienze dell Antichità (Dissertation: Poliochni di Lemnos nel Periodo Giallo e l Antica età del Bronzo nell Egeo settentrionale, tutor prof. Mario Benzi) 1994 (July-December) Research Scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affaires, spent in Greece Studies of Specialization of Archaeology, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (dissertation: La grande tomba a tholos di Haghia Triada, Creta ; 50/50 cum laude) BA Degree of Classical Studies, University of Catania, Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy (dissertation: La cultura di Castelluccio in Sicilia nel quadro delle civiltà egeo-anatoliche, tutor prof. V. La Rosa, 110/110 cum laude). RESEARCH SECTORS Aegean Prehistory ; Archaeology ; Bio-Archaeology, Archaeometry, Cultural Heritage Technologies (3D Images, Virtual Museums) Page 2 - Curriculum vitae di

3 RESEARCH PROJECTS Research Manager, The Ibrahim s Mounds, research program for reconstruction and promotion of the Cultural Heritage in Nassyria District, Iraq, in collaboration with CNR, Massimo Vidale (University of Padua), University La Sapienza, Rome and the Task Force Iraq of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE); appr. 30 partners Italian Research Manager, International project Ai confini della terra di Gerione: le relazioni tra il Portogallo atlantico e il Mediterraneo centrale alle soglie della colonizzazione fenicia (Accordi Bilaterali CNR-FCT); Portuguese partner, prof. R. Vilaça, University of Coimbra Scientific Director, The Virtual Museum of Iraq, a scientific project for reconstructing and promoting the Iraqi Cultural Heritage after the destruction in April 2003; make up of a Virtual Museum in three Languages (Italian, Arabs and English), financially supported by the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs and totally realized by CNR s researches (appr. 120 partners); Research Manager, research program supported by CNR (Ricerca a Tema Libero, RTL) Dei senza volto: utilizzo delle fonti documentarie per l identificazione e descrizione dei luoghi di culto nelle fasi recenti della preistoria e protostoria in Sicilia ( Scientific Responsible of Research Unit, international project ARCANE (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean), funded by European Science Foundation Unit Research Group R5 Western Anatolia, Architecture and Planning Cities (Scientific Director H. Erkanal, Universiy of Izmir, Turkey) Research Unit Manager, Domestic Pottery in Bronze Age North Aegean, promoted by CNRS-UMR 5138, Lion ; France Scientific Responsible of Research Unit, international project ARCANE (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean), funded by European Science Foundation Unit Research Group R4 Aegean Greece, Stratigraphy and Pottery (Scientific Director Chr. Doumas, University of Athens, Greece) Archaeological Research Manager, INDAS Project (Indagini Non Distruttive sulle Ambre Siciliana), a scientific multivaried project, in cooperation with prof. Enrico Ciliberto (Dep. of Organic Chemistry, University of Catania), finalized to investigate amber objects from Prehistoric Sicily Page 3 - Curriculum vitae di

4 Research Manager, Rock-Cut Tombs in Bronze Age Greece, a project Funded by the INSTAP (Institute of Aegean Prehistory, Philadelphia, USA) Archaeological Research Manager, Sicily Obsidian Project, in cooperation of prof. G. Pappalardo (Dept. of Nuclear Physics, University of Catania), finalized to investigate obsidian tools from prehistoric Sicily Research Manager PrePi Project, Prehistoric Prinias, a integrated research on archaeological and archaeometrical analysis on the Early Minoan settlement at Prinias, Crete (5 partners), funded by INSTAP, Philadelphia Member of the Scientific Committee Gruppo di Contatto per lo Studio delle Religioni nel Mediterraneo antico by CNR, in cooperation with P. Xella and M. Rocchi (CNR-ISCIMA), M-C. Trèmouille (CNR-ICEVO), ( Research Unit Manager (WP.2) Sicilia ed Egeo in età preistorica: materie prime e scambi (commessa PC.P02.001: Approcci multidisciplinari integrati per l analisi dei manufatti: dalla produzione alla circolazione e all uso ) (Scientific Director, D. Malfitana). Archaeological Excavations Scientific Manager of Prehistoric Levels, International Archaeological Mission, Institute of Fine Art, NY University, USA (Director prof. Clemente Marconi) Participation on the scientific activity by Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, at Hephestia, Lemnos (Greece) Scientific Manager, scientific activity at Poliochni, Lemnos (Greece), Under scientific direction of the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene Partecipation, as member of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, on the activity at Haghia Triada, Crete (Greece) Partecipation on the scientific activity by University of Catania at Haghia Triada (Minoan Villa), under the direction of V. La Rosa. Teaching Activity Italy 2012 (May) Invited Lecture, Biomolecular Archaeology, Ph.D Medical courses, University of Milan, Italy 2012 (April-May) Historical Geography, Ph. Courses Territory and Culture, University of Rome Tor Vergata (February) Page 4 - Curriculum vitae di

5 Invited Lecture, The Diffusion of the Italian Scientific Language, University La Cattolica, Milano Prehistory of Ancient Greece, University of Palermo, Italy Prehistory of Ancient Greece, University of Cagliari, Italy Methodology of Archaeological Research, University of Perugia, Italy International 2009 Invited Lecture at Ph.D. level at University of Coimbra 2008 Invited Lecture, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Barcellona, Spain 2003 Invited Lecture, Mykenische Kommisionen, Wien (Austria) 2001 (spring term) Visiting Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTES Member, as CNR representative, of the National Ministerial Committee L. 6/2000 for the Promotion of the Italian historical and technological Culture OTHER MEMBERSHIPS EDITORIAL BOARD 2008 Ordinary Member of the Associazione Italiana di Archeometria 2006 Ordinary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) 2003 Senior Associate Member of the American School at Athens 2002 Ordinary Member of the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria 2001 Ordinary Member of Archaiologikè Etairia Athenon (Archaeological Society of Athens) 2012 Member of the Scientific and Editorial Board CNR Highlights Member of Scientific Committee of the archaeological journal Sicilia Archeologica Member of Scientific Committee of the international scientific journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry Member of the Scientific and Editorial Board CNR Highlights Page 5 - Curriculum vitae di

6 REPRESENTATIVE ACTIVITY OF CNR 2010 (November) Invited Lecture, National DNArt Italian Cultural Heritage Meeting, Turin, Italy (June) Invited Lecture, International Forum of the Cultural Heritage Technologies, Expo 2010 Shanghai, China (May) Invited Lecture, Salone del Libro, Turin, Italy 2009 (May) Invited Lecture at the G8 HORCS, as representative of the CNR activity and International role by Italian Government in the Middle East (November) Invited lecture at the Fifth International Conference of the Institutes of Italian Cultures, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome. ACTIVITY A PEER REVIEW Peer Review of International Projects in the fields of Archaeology and Humanities promoted by Shota Rustaveli Fondation of the Republic of Georgia Peer Reviewer of international Project in the field of Archaeology promoted by the Idryma Proothesis Ereunas (CNR) di Cipro. ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPOSITIVE ORGANIZATION Prehistoric Section of the Regional Archaeologica Museum at Adrano (Catania, Italy), promoted and funded by Soprintendenza Archeologica Catania (scientific director, dott. Gioconda La Magna) Scientific Manager, with V. La Rosa, of the International Exhibition Poliochni nella Lemno fumosa: un centro dell antica età del Bronzo nell Egeo settentrionale (Thessalonike, Greece) 2000 Prehistoric Section of the Museum of the Oil, Torgiano (Perugia, Italy) ORGANIZATIVE ACTIVY OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2011 National Conference Prima di Thapsos: la Sicilia centro-orientale nella prima età del Bronzo (Siracusa December) 2010 International Conference Santuari indigeni di Sicilia e Magna Grecia (Catania and Marianopoli, CL, 8-11 April), together with R. Panvini, Page 6 - Curriculum vitae di

7 2009 International Conference La Gurfa di Alia (Palermo, 8 July), together with F. Spatafora International Conference Protostorie Siciliane (Agrigento, 5 April ), together with A. Zanini International Conference, Cibo per gli Uomini, Cibo per gli Dei (Piazza Armerina, En, 5-8 May), together with A. Pautasso and D. Palermo. AWARDS 2012 National Award Premio Virgilio Lavore per la Cultura Classica 2008 Gold Medal for the activity in favour of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage by Circolo Operai of Adrano, CT. LANGUAGES Mother tongue(s) Other language(s) Italian, Understanding Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English good good good good good Modern Greek good good good good good French good sufficient sufficient sufficient no German sufficient good no no no Russian sufficient sufficient no no no SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS ON THE LAST FIVE YEARS books 1. Antiche Civiltà. Grecia (coautore con M. Denti), Fabbri Editori, Milano ISBN L anello di Minosse. Archeologia della regalità nell Egeo minoico, (Biblioteca di Archeologia), Longanesi editore, Milano ISBN I Micenei. Archeologia, storia e società dei Greci prima di Omero, Carocci editore Roma 2006, ISBN Page 7 - Curriculum vitae di

8 Page 8 - Curriculum vitae di Combined Efforts till Death. Funerary Ritual and Social Statements in the Aegean Early Bronze Age, in N. Laneri (ed.), Performing Death. Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean, The Oriental Institute of Chicago Seminars 3, Chicago 2007, L ambra nel mondo mediterraneo: l Egeo e le aree di contatto, in Ambre. Trasparenze dell Antico (Catalogo della Mostra, Napoli Museo Archeologico), a cura di M.L. Nava & A. Salerno, Electa, Milano 2007, Evidence of Amber in Bronze Age Sicily: Local Sources and he Balkan-Mycenaean Connection, in I. Galanaki, H. Thomas, R. Laffineur (eds.), Between the Aegean and the Baltic Seas. Prehistory Across Borders, Proceedings of the International Conference Zagreb 2005 (Aegaeum 27), Liège 2007, The Middle Bronze Age Pottery Sequence in the Northern Aegean Islands: The Evidence of Poliochni, Lemnos, in F. Felten, W. Gauss, R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms (SCIEM 2000), Wien 2007, La regione etnea fra Neolitico ed antica età del Bronzo: dinamiche culturali e sviluppo crono-tipologico, in In Ima Tartara. Preistoria e leggenda delle grotte etnee (a cura di F. Privitera e V. La Rosa), Catalogo della Mostra, Palermo 2007, Domestic Architecture and Public Space in Early Bronze Age Poliochni (Lemnos) in House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean & beyond (J. Whitley, N. Fischer, R. Westgate eds), Monographies of BSA 15, London 2007, Metal artefacts from Early Bronze Age Poliochni on Lemnos: archaeometric analysis in archaeological perspective, in Proceedings of the 4 th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry (Y. Facorellis, N. Zacharias, K. Polikreti eds.), BAR IS 1746, Oxford 2008, Domesticating islandscapes: Sicily and Maltese Islands in the Later Neolithic and Eneolithic Ages (IV-III millennium BC), in Interconnections in the Central Mediterranean: the Maltese Islands and Sicily in History (Proceedings of the Conference St Julians, Malta 2-3 November 2007), A. Bonanno & P. Militello eds., Palermo 2008, Ricerche sui depositi del Neolitico Tardo e dell Antico Minoico in località Siderospilia: I primi risultati, in ASAtene LXXXIII.2 (2008), (con V. BELLELLI), Leoncino etrusco da Kavala, in ASAtene LXXXIV.1 (2008), (con F. GABELLONE, G. SCARDOZZI), From remote sensing to 3D modelling and virtual reconstuctions of the Iraqi archeological sites: the case of Hatra, in R. Lasaponara & N. Masini eds., Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, Rome 2008, Insediamento e necropoli dell Antico e Medio Minoico a Priniàs, Creta (Grecia), in Internazionalizzazione. Storie, strategie e risorse della ricerca CNR sui beni culturali nel contesto internazionale, a cura

9 di L. Cessari e A.L. D Agata, Gangemi Editore Roma 2009, (ISBN ). - The Virtual Museum of Iraq Project, in Using New Technologies to Explore Cultural Heritage, Proceedings of the International Conference (Washington 4-5 October 2007), NEH-CNR, Roma 2009, (ISBN ). - Archeologia e politica estera nelle relazioni tra Italia e Stati Uniti agli inizi del Novecento, in Identità Nazionale, memoria storica e Scienze umane (Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Firenze 11 aprile 2008), NEH-CNR, Roma 2009, (ISBN ). - Crete and the islands of the Northern Aegean before the Palaces: reconsidering the evidence from Poliochni, Lemnos, in The Minoans in the central, eastern and northern Aegean, new evidence (E. Hallager, C.F. MacDonald, W-D. Niemeier eds), Monograph of the Danish Institute at Athens, vol. 8, Athens, Le Grotte della Gurfa: appunti per un archeologia del paesaggio, in Terra e Luce: dalla Gurfa al Roden Crater di James Turrell (Catalogo della Mostra), a cura di L. Gotti Venturati, Milano Skira Edizioni, (ISBN ). - (con M. CAVALIER), L insediamento eneolitico sul Poggio dell Aquila (Adrano): risultati preliminari, in Tra Etna e Simeto. La ricerca archeologica ad Adrano e il suo territorio ( a cura di G. Lamagna), Giarre (CT), Imitazione di ceramica egeo-micenea nel Bronzo Medio a Catania?, in Tra lava e mare. Contributi all archaiologia di Catania, a cura di M.G. Branciforti e V. La Rosa (Atti del Convegno, Catania novembre 2007), Catania, Una forza distruttiva e irreversibile: fuoco, calore, luce nelle culture neolitiche del Mediterraneo centrale, in C.D. Fonseca, E. Fontanella, C. Strinati (a cura di), Anima del Fuoco (catalogo della Mostra, Milano marzo-giugno 2010), Milano DNArt Edizioni, Echi dal passato: lo Scudo di Achille e la Grecia della tarda età del Bronzo, in Lo Scudo di Achille nell Iliade, a cura di M. D Acunto e R. Palmisciano (Atti Giornata di Studio, Napoli 12 maggio 2008), AION sez. filol. XXXI, Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Archeometria della ambre nella Sicilia pre- e protostorica, in Il dialogo dei Saperi. Metodologie integrate per i Beni Culturali (a cura di F. D Andria et alii), Napoli Edizioni Scientifiche italiane (ISBN ), (con G. PAPPALARDO), L industria su ossidiana dall insediamento preistorico sul poggio dell Aquila presso Adrano (Catania): analisi non distruttive e aspetti morfo-tipometrici, in Il dialogo dei Saperi. Metodologie integrate per i Beni Culturali (a cura di F. D Andria et alii), Napoli Edizioni Scientifiche italiane (ISBN ), ULTERIORI INFORMAZIONI / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Professore a contratto di Antichità egee presso l Università degli Studi di Palermo, dal 2002 al 2010 Page 9 - Curriculum vitae di

10 TRATTAMENTO DEI DATI PERSONALI, INFORMATIVA E CONSENSO Il D.Lgs. 30/6/2003, n. 196 Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali regola il trattamento dei dati personali, con particolare riferimento alla riservatezza, all identità personale e al diritto di protezione dei dati personali; l interessato deve essere previamente informato del trattamento. La norma in considerazione intende come trattamento qualunque operazione o complesso di operazioni concernenti la raccolta, la registrazione, l organizzazione, la conservazione, la consultazione, l elaborazione, la modifica, la selezione, l estrazione, il raffronto, l utilizzo, l interconnessione, il blocco, la comunicazione, la diffusione, la cancellazione e la distruzione di dati, anche se non registrati in una banca dati. In relazione a quanto riportato, autorizzo il CNR al trattamento dei dati contenuti nel presente curriculum vitae e nella documentazione della quale fa parte integrante ( barrare la casella) Si, acconsento Catania, giugno 2012 Page 10 - Curriculum vitae di