Name ANDREA TITOLO
E-mail titoloandrea@gmail.com
Nationality Italian
Date and Place of Birth 25/11/1991, ROME
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• 2016-today
PhD Course in Near Eastern Archaeology at “Sapienza” University of Rome.
Project: Beyond the River. Settlement Patterns and Models of Occupation along the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq during the Iron Age.
Tutor: Prof. Davide Nadali.
• 2015/2016
MA in Near Easter Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome
Thesis: Distribution and nature of settlements along the Middle Euphrates in Syria and Iraq in the Early Iron Age (X-IX sec. B.C.)
Graduation Date: 22/03/2016
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Supervisor: Prof. Davide Nadali
Assistant Supervisor: Dr. Sara Pizzimenti
• 2012/2013
BA in Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome
Thesis: Sargon II military campaign against Urartu (714 B.C.)
Graduation Date: 09/01/2014
Grade: 108/110
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Giovanna Biga
Other Educational Experiences
• April-June 2018
Educational period of three months at Durham University (thank to the fellowship “Mobility of PhD students” provided by “Sapienza” University of Rome) to study and enhance methodologies and techniques of the Landscape Archaeology and Remote Sensing, with particular focus on the orthorectification and georeferencing of the declassified CORONA satellite images.
• November 2016
GIS course “GIS Open Source Advanced (QGIS)”, organized by Terrelogiche at the Istituto Spallucci, Rome
• June 2016
GIS course " GIS Open Source: QGIS " organized by Terrelogiche at the Istituto Spallucci, Rome
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
• July 2018
Participation at the archaeological survey of the Lagodekhi region (Georgia), directed by Dr. Kristen Hopper (Durham University) and Prof. Elena Rova (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
• November 2017
Participation at the archaeological excavation at Nigin (Iraq) directed by Prof. D. Nadali (Sapienza University of Rome) and by Prof. A. Polcaro (University of Perugia).
• October 2016
Participation at the archaeological excavation at Nigin (Iraq) directed by Prof. D. Nadali (Sapienza University of Rome) and by Prof. A. Polcaro (University of Perugia).
• September 2016
Participation at the excavation at Coppa Nevigata (FG) directed by Prof. A. Cazzella (Sapienza University of Rome).
• 2015-present
Member of the Italian Archaeological Expedition at Nigin (Iraq) directed by Prof. D. Nadali (Sapienza University of Rome) and by Prof. A. Polcaro (University of Perugia).
• September 2015
Participation at the excavation at Coppa Nevigata (FG) directed by Prof. A. Cazzella (Sapienza University of Rome).
• July 2013
Participation at the excavation sponsored by Sapienza University of Rome at the Villa di Cottanello/Collesecco (RI) directed by Prof. P. Pensabene.
CONGRESSES PARTICIPATION
• 2019
SSDA 2019 (Seminario della Scuola di Dottorato di Archeologia di Sapienza, 30-31 January 2019). Organization of the conference and presentation of the paper: “L’età del Ferro nell’area dell’Eufrate Siriano: siti e ricostruzione del paesaggio archeologico.”
• 2018
11th ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of Ancient Near East, Munich 03-07 April), presentation of the poster “Settlement Patterns, Models of Occupation, and Assyrian Presence in the West. Case Study from the Middle Euphrates Region.”
• 2018
BANEA Conference (Durham, 27th-29th March), presentation of the paper “On the Edge of the Empire: Riverine Landscape and Settlement Patterns in the Haditha Dam Region during the Iron Age.”
• 2018
SSDA 2018 (Seminario della Scuola di Dottorato di Archeologia di Sapienza, 30-31 January, 1 February 2018). Organization of the conference and presentation of the paper: “Pattern insediamentali nell'età del Ferro: il caso studio del Medio Eufrate iracheno.”
• 2017
Broadening Horizons 5 (Udine 4th-8th June), presentation of the paper “Assyrian Imperial Frontiers of the First Millennium BC, the Case of the Iraqi Middle Euphrates.”
• 2016
10th ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of Ancient Near East), Wien 25th - 29th April.
• 2015
SEAC 2015 (International Conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture): Astronomy in Past and Present Cultures, Rome 9th - 13th November.
• 2014
Ebla and Beyond, Ancient Near Eastern Studies after Fifty Years of Discoveries at Tell Mardikh, Rome 15th - 17th December.
OTHER WORKING EXPERIENCES
• 2018
Data entry of the archaeological documentation of the archaeological survey in the province of Lagodekhi (Georgia), directed by Dr. Kristen Hopper (Durham University) and Prof. Elena Rova (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
• 2017-
Digitalization of the graphical documentation of the Italian Archaeological Expedition in Syria (Tell Mardikh-Ebla), directed by Prof. Paolo Matthiae.
• 2015-
Data entry of the archaeological documentation of the Italian Archaeological Expedition to Nigin (Iraq) directed by Prof. D. Nadali (Università di Roma "Sapienza") and by Prof. A. Polcaro (Università di Perugia).
• 2013
Data entry of the archaeological documentation of the excavation at the “Villa di Cottanello/Collesecco (RI)” directed by Prof. P. Pensabene.
NATIVE LANGUAGE ITALIAN
OTHER LANGUAGES
ENGLISH
• Reading VERY GOOD
• Writing GOOD
• Speaking VERY GOOD
ARABIC
• Speaking BASIC
FRENCH
• Reading BASIC
• Writing BASIC
IELTS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE (22/03/2018)
SCORE
• Reading 8.5
• Writing 7.0
• Speaking 7.0
• Listening 8.5
• Overall Band Score 8.0
• CEFR Level C1
COMPUTER AND TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
• KNOWLEDGE OF THE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS AND COMMON OFFICE PROGRAMS (WORD, EXCEL, ACCESS)
• KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMMON GRAPHIC PROGRAMS (PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR)
• KNOWLEDGE OF THE GIS PROGRAMS QGIS 2.18. BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF ARCGIS PRO, ARCMAP, ERDAS IMAGINE 2015 AND GLOBAL MAPPER.