MAX VICTOR (detto Massimiliano) DAVID

Associate professor


email: maxvictor.david@uniroma1.it
phone: 00393389360988
building: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
room: studio di archeologia cristiana

Max Victor (a.k.a. Massimiliano) DAVID, born in Wilmington (U.S.A.) on March 12, 1959, received his degree in arts and philosophy on April 9, 1987 at the University of Milan. He received his specialized diploma in archaeology and history of ancient art from the same university on November 27, 1990.

His interests focus on urban and landscape archaeology as well as construction techniques. He also turned his attention to methodological problems like re-use in historical construction and, more recently, to the history of archaeology and excavation techniques. He has worked on material culture and antiquities collecting. Another special field of study involves research on the exploitation, trade and use of stone in the Roman age. In 1983 he founded an interdisciplinary study group at the Milan Natural History Museum on pre-industrial quarries in Lombardy. Since 2001 he teaches Late Antique Mediterranean Archeology and Archeology of Late Antiquity at the University of Bologna and is member of the Doctoral School of Post-classical Archeology at the Sapienza University of Rome. He founded in 1982 the Interdisciplinary Group for the study of industrial mining activities at the Civic Museum of Natural History in Milan. In 1995 directed the Mediolapis Project, a multidisciplinary plan for the cataloging of stone epigraphs of civic museums in Milan from the 1st century to the 20th century. Since 2007 he has been leading the Ostia Marina Project, archaeological mission of the Department of History, Culture and Civilization of the University of Bologna in Ostia Antica and the Acheloo Project, archaeological mission of the same Academic Institution in Civitavecchia, on the archaeological site of the ancient city of Aquae Tauri. Guides the Pal-Esa Project and the Melissa Project for the study and knowledge of the town of Ravenna. He has obtained the national qualification of associate professor of archeology and has at his disposal more than 300 scientific publications of archeology. He has been an official speaker for national and international congresses on classical, Christian and medieval archaeology. He has held conferences in Italian and foreign universities.

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