Phd in PHD SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY

email: savino.dilernia@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649697092
building: Via dei Volsci, 122
room: 309

EDUCATION
1997. PhD in Archaeology (Prehistory), Sapienza University of Rome. 1989. Degree in ‘Lettere e Filosofia’ with honours, Sapienza University of Rome.
POSITIONS AND TEACHING
2020-2023. Director of the "Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici"
2015 - Associate Professor
2006-, Teacher, School of Specialization, Sapienza University of Rome.
2002, Teacher, African Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome.
2002, Teacher, Ethnoarchaeology and African Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome.
1998, Researcher at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità (former SSAAA), Sapienza University of Rome.

AFFILIATIONS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
Honorary Research Fellow, GAES, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Member, World Archaeological Congress
Life Member, Society of Africanist Archaeologists
Member, Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana
Research Fellow, Sahara Studies Programme, University of Easy Anglia, UK
Visiting Scholar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK)
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University of New York, USA
Member of the Editorial Board of Libya Antiqua, Journal of African Archaeology, Azania, Sahara
Associate Editor, Caster Series Editor, Arid Zone Archaeology

FIELDWORK
Since 2015 is director of the Archaeological Mission in the Kenyan Rift Valley, with National Museums of Kenya. Since 2014 is director of the Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, in Tunisia, with the INP of Tunisi, since 2023 with CNPRAH of Algers.
Since 2004, Director of the Italian-Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus and Messak (central Sahara).
Since 2002 to 2006, Co-director of the Anglo-Italian Mission in Western Sahara, within a collaborative project between the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the University of East Anglia, and Kings College in London.
Since 1990 to 1997 Ethnoarchaeological research in Tunisia (Berbers of the Jugurta region), Sudan (Hamda, central Sudan) and in Libya (Tuareg kel Tadrart).
Since 1990, Member or the Italian-Libyan Mission in the Fezzan.
Since 1985 to 1997 I have taken part to a number of excavations and fieldwork activity in Italy, especially excavations of Neolithic and Eneolithic sites of Apulia (Gargano and Salento), Tuscany (Sesto Fiorentino area), Sardinia (Perfugas area) and Aosta Valley (Aosta area).
CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES
Participation to numerous congresses in Italy and abroad, together with the organization of workshops and international conferences, with special focus on African Archaeology.
PUBLICATIONS
The scientific production consists of around 180 articles, mainly for international peer-reviewed journals, together with 8 edited volumes, mostly related to the activity in the Acacus and Messak (central Sahara) and 3 books.
CONSULTING
Design and direction of several studies of archaeological ris in Libya (Messak, Edeyen di Murzuq, Kufra), between 2000 and 2011. Consultant to UNESCO World Heritage Centre on African rock art.
DISSEMINATION
Several articles printed in magazines, newspapers, web sites, as well as several interviews to radio, television and websites. As particular products, the scientific supervision of the production of three documentaries. 2005. “Il segno sulla pietra”, Studio TV (Italia, 56’). 2005. “The kingdom of Garamantes”, TDF (Germany, 54’).
2002. “The Mistery of the Black Mummy”. Fulcrum TV/Discovery Channel (UK, 49’).