ACADEMIC TRAINING
2019-present (temporarily suspended) - School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage at Sapienza University of Rome. Curriculum Prehistoric Archaeology.
2016-2019 - Master's degree in Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome.
"Hunting and breeding from the Early to the Middle Holocene in the Central Sahara: new methodologies applied to the study of faunal remains from Takarkori (Libya)."
Rapporteur: Savino di Lernia, Chair of Prehistoric Ethnography of Africa.
Co-rapporteur: Francesca Alhaique.
Final mark 110/110 with honours
2012-2016 - Bachelor's degree in Archaeological Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome.
"The exploitation of animal resources in Maccarese: the analysis of the faunal remains of hut B".
Supervisor: Cecilia Conati Barbaro, Chair of Prehistoric Ecology.
Final mark 110/110
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSIONS
- Research activities in the Kebili region (southern Tunisia) of the "Archaeological Mission in the Sahara" (Sapienza University of Rome). Excavation and documentation of Middle Stone Age sites in Wadi Lazalim (Kebili). Analysis and documentation of archaeological and faunal materials (Pleistocene and Holocene) recovered during previous missions at the INP headquarters in Tunis.
- Research activities in the south-eastern area of Lake Turkana (north-western Kenya) of the "Archaeological Mission in the Rift Valley. Environment, populations and cultures of prehistoric north-western Kenya" (Sapienza University of Rome). Excavation, documentation and surveys of open-air and funerary sites of the Anticomedian Holocene. Surveys and documentation of rock-art sites. Surveys in semi-desert environments.
- Research activities in the Gotera area, located west of Lake Chew Bahir (Southern Ethiopia) within the project "(H)Origin" (Sapienza University of Rome). Excavation and documentation of Middle Stone Age sites; surveys in a savannah environment.
- Study mission conducted at the University of Kairouan, aimed at analyzing and documenting archaeological and faunal materials (Pleistocene and Holocene) recovered during the missions of 2016 and 2017 in northern (el Kef) and southern (Kebili) Tunisia, as part of the activities of the "Archaeological Mission in the Sahara" (Sapienza University of Rome).
- Archaeological excavation of the site of Trinitapoli loc. Madonna di Loreto (BAT); Bronze Age. Research activities of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia.
- Archaeological excavation of the Cannatello site, Agrigento; Bronze Age. Research activities of the Chair of European Protohistory at the Sapienza University of Rome.
- Archaeological excavation of the Portonovo-Fosso Fontanaccia site, Ancona; Ancient Neolithic. Research activities of the Chair of Prehistoric Ecology, Sapienza University of Rome.
- Archaeological excavation of the Valle Giumentina site, Pescara; Upper Palaeolithic. Research activity directed by the Ecole française de Rome.
WORK EXPERIENCES
2019 - Assignment of autonomous work concerning the taxonomic and taphonomic study of faunal findings from excavations and surveys in North African (Libya, Tunisia) and East African (Kenya) contexts; application of biomolecular methodologies for taxonomic identification of species (ZooMS), at Department of Ancient Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome (ICE 065/2019).
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOP
- Modesto R., Tunzi A.M., Muntoni I.M., Dellù E., Alhaique F., Eramo G., Di Matteo M., Mironti V. I vivi sotto terra. “L’Ipogeo del Guardiano” (Trinitapoli, BT) nel II millennio a.C.: un approccio interdisciplinare. XV Incontro di Studi: Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria, Ipogei. La vita, la morte, i culti nei mondi sotterranei. Valentano (VT), 11-12-13 settembre 2020.
- M. Di Matteo, F. Alhaique, W. Van Neer, S. di Lernia. L’identità nel frammento: riconoscimento del taxon attraverso l’impronta peptidica nel sito antico e medio olocenico di Takarkori (Libia). I Convegno “Spring Archaeology”, Siena, 15-17 maggio 2020.
- M. Di Matteo, F. Alhaique, W. Van Neer, K. McGrath, S. di Lernia. ZooM(S) on fragmentation: identifying taxon in highly fragmented faunal assemblages of Takarkori (Libya, Central Sahara) through collagen fingerprints. 1st Italian Workshop on the Analysis of Archaeological Organic Remains. Roma, 20-21 giugno 2019.
- N. Marconi, G. Carleo, M. Di Matteo, C. C. Barbaro. Spazi privati e spazi condivisi. Nuove ipotesi sull’organizzazione interna del villaggio di Le CerqueteFianello, Maccarese. XIV Incontro di Studi: Preistoria e Protostoria in Etruria, Archeologia dell’abitare: Insediamenti e organizzazione sociale prima della città, dai monumenti ai comportamenti. Valentano (VT)-Pitigliano (GR)-Manciano (GR), 7-9 Settembre 2018.
- I. Micarelli, G. Francisi, M. Trosini, S. Di Giannantonio, M. Di Matteo, C. Giostra, G. Manzi, M. A. Tafuri. In search of a complex past. Lombards in Italy: a population on the move in late antiquity. 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Barcellona, 5-8 Settembre 2018.
- Di Matteo M.,Tunzi A. M., Modesto R., Alhaique F. Primi risultati archeozoologici dall’Ipogeo del Guardiano (Trinitapoli, BAT). IX Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia A.I.A.Z. Ravenna, 28 novembre-1 dicembre 2018.
- Di Matteo M.,Tunzi A. M., Modesto R., Alhaique F. The dogs form the cult layers of Ipogeo del Guardiano Trintapoli (Barletta-Andria-Trani, Italy). Dogs Past & Present, 1st International Meeting. Roma, 14-17 Novembre 2018.
- Tunzi A.M., Modesto R., Alhaique F., Di Matteo M., Lo Zupone M., Mironti V. Nuove indagini nell’ipogeo dell’età del Bronzo del Guardiano (Trinitapoli, BT). 38° Convegno sulla Preistoria, Protostoria e Storia della Daunia, San Severo, 18-19 novembre 2017.
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SKILLS
English (B2); - MIBAC RECOGNISED CERTIFICATE FROM BRITISH CENTRE OF ROME.
Advanced knowledge: Windows Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint; QGIS.
Basic knowledge: Adobe Photoshop, mMass, OxCal, AutoCAD, Past.
2018 - Certificate recognized by Mibac and Miur of achievement of the Complete Course of QGIS Una Quantum intermediate level.
OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
2019 - Training period under the supervision of laboratory technician Krista McGrath at the BioArch. of the University of York (UK) in the preparation of bone samples for MALDI-ToF-MS to obtain taxonomic information using the ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) method.