Dr Francesca Fulminante
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Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
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Research interests
My research to date has focused on urbanization in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC with a particular interest on central Italy.
My work investigates the development of complex societies in Rome and the surrounding regions both as macro- economic and socio-political processes (e.g. social stratification, settlement organization and craft community practices) but also in their relation to intimate and personal habits such as mother-child relationship and infant feeding practices.
In particular, one of my projects is studying community practices, analysing archaic metal votive objects in central Italy with XRF.
By combining advanced technological and scientific methodologies with traditional approaches my main stream of research explores the connections between cultural and political environments and child-rearing practices in central Italy (1000 BC – 100 AD). This last work has resulted in my ERC application being selected for interview in 2015/2016 and 2018.
The third avenue of my research explores connectivity and transportation networks by the mean of Network Science Approach in central Italy during the 1st Millennium BC including Roman times to propose a new interacting model of urbanization.
Publications
Recent publications
31/05/2024Salt Production in Central Italy and Social Network Analysis Centrality Measures
Open Archaeology
"Community practices" and "Community of Practices" in smelting technology of central Italian Archaic Bronze Votive Figurines(6th - 5th Centuries BC) with XRF technology
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Early Iron Age and Orientalizing Mediterranean Networks from Funerary Contexts in Latium vetus
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC)
Journal of Archaeological Science
I Latini e gli Altri. Identificazione di networks sociali e sfere di interazione dalla distribuzione degli oggetti d’importazione nei contesti funerari del Latium vetus durante l’etá del Ferro e l’Orientalizzante
The Orientalizing cultures in the Mediterranean, 8th-6th cent. BC: Origins, cultural contacts and local developments Rome, 19th-21st January 2017