EDUCATION
2021 - PhD in Archaeology, University of Liverpool
2016 - MSc by Research in Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University
2011 - MA in Philosophical Sciences, Roma Tre University
FIELDWORK AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
2024. EASTER ISLAND & SANTIAGO (Chile)
2021. NOTARCHIRICO, Venosa (Italy)
2019. BESTANSUR, Sulaymaniyah (Iraq)
2018. BONCUKLU, Konya (Turkey)
2016. EIN EL-JARBA, Hazorea (Israel)
2015. GALERÍA, Atapuerca (Spain)
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS
2025. Cartolano M, Ferrara S. Codes in the Making. A New Appraisal of Neolithic Imagery in Southwest Asia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774324000337
2024. Ottaviano L, Kelley K, Cartolano M, Ferrara S. Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. TopiCS. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12768
2024. Kelley K, Cartolano M, Ferrara S. Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.165
2024. Book review of Becoming Neolithic: The Pivot of Human History, by Trevor Watkins. American Journal of Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1086/731025
2023. Scrivere nella preistoria. Osservazioni su oggetti portatili incisi nel Vicino Oriente Neolitico, TECA. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-3604/17519
2023. Cartolano M., Napoletano R., The Roots of Writing. Origins, Developments, Methodologies of Investigation of Writing Expressions, TECA. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-3604/17621
2023. Book Review of Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner, and Eric Pincas. 2022. Lady Sapiens: Breaking Stereotypes About Prehistoric Women. London: Hero. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.23
2023. Göbekli Tepe. Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0423221
2022. Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Near East. Database of Religious History, Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0416028
2022. Animal and human representations in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East, Neo-Lithics. https://doi.org/10.48632/nl.2021.1.87911
2021. ICAANE, University of Bologna (Italy). Title of the paper: “Reading animal and human figures in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic communities of the Near East” https://www.doi.org/10.13173/9783447118736
2021. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: Problems, methodologies and historical sources from the Antiquity to present day, University of Pisa (Italy). Title of the paper: “Shifting Identity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. A Near Eastern perspective”
2020. EAA ANNUAL MEETING (Virtual), Budapest University (Hungary). Title of the paper: “Religion, cognition and anthro-zoomorphic figurative forms in the Near Eastern Neolithic” Archaeopress Access Archaeology, forthcoming
2020. Book review of Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük. ed. Ian Hodder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. American Journal of Archaeology 124(4). DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1244.Cartolano
2019. BANEA, University of Liverpool (UK). Title of the paper: “The thinking behind the production of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic artefacts in the PPN”
2018. LPCANE, The British Museum - London (UK). Title of the paper: “Sacred precincts during in the Neolithic of the Near East?” Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2022. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444.2041-9015.1376
2018. NEBARSS, University of Manchester (UK). Title of the paper: “Sacred precincts during in the Neolithic of the Near East?”
2018. "The Complexity of What is not a bone". Book review of Bones of complexity: Bioarchaeological case studies of social organization and skeletal biology. ed. Haagen Klaus, Amanda Harvey and Mark N. Cohen University Press of Florida, 2017. Anthropology Book Forum. Vol. 4. No. 1.
2018. “History Making and the Problem of Religion in the Neolithic". Book review of Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life. Ed. Ian Hodder University Press of Colorado, 2018. Anthropology Book Forum. Vol. 4. No. 1.
2016. RAI STUDENT CONFERENCE, Oxford Brookes University (UK). Title of paper: “Growing beyond the limits. Analysis of the cooperative underpinnings in the Neolithic Demographic Transition of Southwest Asia”
2016. ANNUAL DSS/LAW RESEARCH STUDENT SYMPOSIUM, Oxford Brookes University (UK). Title of paper: “The evolution of social cooperation in context of the Neolithic Demographic Transition of Southwest Asia”.
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES/ISSUES
2024. (with Ferrara, S. and Ottaviano, L.) Talking Images. Routledge [ISBN 9781032712963]
2023. (with Napoletano, R., et al) Le Radici della Scrittura. TECA Dossier. Vol. 13 No. 7ns https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-3604/v13-n7ns-2023
2022. Animal and Human Symbolism in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East. SENEPSE 24. Berlin, ex oriente [ISBN 978-3-944178-21-9]
AWARDS
2017-2021 PhD Studentship, Arts & Humanities Research Council NWCDTP, University of Liverpool (UK)
2012 LEONARDO PROGRAMME, European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme for education and training, University of Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2023. Teaching assistant. 27928 - LABORATORIO (1) (LM) (G.F) - University of Bologna
2021. Teaching and tutoring workshops and webinars at Liverpool Doctoral College – University of Liverpool (UK). Workshops taught together with LDC Development team and include: Planning and delivering research presentations and taking ownership of you PhD series (Project and Time management and surviving the PhD sessions)
2020. Teaching to undergraduates - ALGY356 module: Origins of agriculture and sedentism in the Near East – University of Liverpool (UK)
2020. The Human Palaeoecology research group seminar, University of Liverpool (UK). Title of the presentation: “Investigating the Pre-Pottery Neolithic demographic transition and the production of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic forms of representation in southwest Asia”
