TARANTO SERGIO

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXII
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Given Name: SERGIO

Surname: TARANTO

Nationality: ITALIANA

Data of birth: 09 NOV 1986

Sex: MALE

Place of Birth: MESSINA (ME)

Education and training:

2000-2005 Graduation from the Liceo Classico Vittorio Emanuele III di Patti (ME - Italy)

2005-2013 Bachelor’s Degree with honors in Archaeological Science

Sapienza University of Rome

I graduated in Phoenician-Punic Archaeology with the thesis “Sauce and salt fishes in Sicily during the Punic period”


2013-2016 Master’s Degree with honors in Archaeology

Sapienza University of Rome

I graduated in Experimental Archaeology related with the Prehistory of the Near East with the thesis “Husking tray: a pan to bake bread? An interpretation of the Pottery Typology by way of an Experimental Approach”

2016 – nowadays PhD student in Prehistory of the Near East
Autonomous University of Barcelona in joint research with Sapienza University of Rome

2016 – nowadays member of the archaeological research team GRAMPO
Autonomous University of Barcelona

2016 – nowadays member of the archaeological research team SAPPO
Autonomous University of Barcelona

2016 – nowadays member of the laboratory LTFAPA
Sapienza University of Rome



I learn to dig, to make an overlay and all the activities of documentation during numerous archaeologic expeditions:

- Rome (Italy) 2006, 3 weeks , prof. C. Panella (Classical archaeology)

- Mozia (Sicily - Italy) 2009/2010/2011/2012 weeks at all, prof. L. Nigro (Phoenician-punic archaeology)

- Sassoforte (Tuscany - Italy) 2010, 3 weeks, C. Citter (Medival archaeology)

- Sardara (Sardinia- Italy) 2011, 5 weeks, F.R. Stasolla (Medival Archaeology)
- Campo Reatino (Lazio - Italy) 2014, 4 weeks, prof. A. Jaia (Late antiquity archaeology)

- Pla del Castell (Catalunya – Spain) 2017, 7 days Prof. M. Molist and A. Gomez (Iberic period)

- Dolmen de Cal Xinquet de la Calçada (Catalunya – Spain) 2017, 3 days, Prof. M. Molist and A. Gomez (Neolithic)

- Necròpolis tumulària d’Almenara (Catalunya – Spain) 2017, weeks, Dr. A. Moya (Iberic Period)

- Gird Lashkir, (Erbil, Iraq) 2018 2018, 4 weeks, Prof. Molis and A. Gomez (Early bronze age)

- Vilanera (Catalunya – Spain) 2017, 2 weeks, Prof. M. Molist and A. Gomez (Neolithic)

▪ Data processing of the Archeological Mission at Ebla (100 h), prof. P. Matthiae – 2006

▪ Digitalization and processing of the pottery plates of the Archaeological Campaigns of Mozia (2010-2011)

▪ Restoration Stage of ancient artefacts in the Civic Museum of Tolfa (RM) – 2 weeks – 2011

▪ Pottery Design Courses.

- Prof. S. Barberini (2013)

- Prof. D. Serafini (2014).

▪ Apprenticeship at the DRASSM (Aix en Provence) – (2014 - 1 week)

▪ Pottery Laboratory of Ancient Ostia (2014/2015 - 50 h.), prof. G. Olcese.

▪ Experimental-archaeology Laboratory ( 2015 - 50 h.), prof. C. Lemorini.

▪ Experimental-archaeology Laboratory – traces on pottery surface (2017,2018,2019), prof. C. Lemorini.




Research products

  • 11573/1662049 - 2022 - Investigating the function of late-Neolithic ‘husking trays’ from Syrian Jazira through integrated use-alteration and phytolith analyses (01a Articolo in rivista)
    SERGIO TARANTO, Cristina LEMORINI
  • 11573/1464503 - 2020 - Testing the hypothesis: experimental approach and use-wear analysis in prehistoric archaeology (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    Cristina LEMORINI, ANDA PETROVIC, FLAVIA VENDITTI, FLAVIA MARINELLI, VANESSA FORTE, MARTINA BASILE, ALESSIO PELLEGRINI, SERGIO TARANTO, PAMELA RICCI, ANTONELLA DE ANGELIS
  • 11573/1406026 - 2020 - The Husking tray: a shared cooking technology between the Late Neolithic communities of the Near East? (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    SERGIO TARANTO
  • 11573/1133113 - 2018 - THE ROLE OF THE HUSKING TRAY IN THE LATE NEOLITHIC COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    SERGIO TARANTO
  • 11573/1133089 - 2018 - An experimental analysis of a pottery typology supposed to be used for baking bread (04b Atto di convegno in volume)
    SERGIO TARANTO
  • 11573/1133132 - 2018 - Salse e salagioni di pesce nella Sicilia greco-punica (04c Atto di convegno in rivista)
    SERGIO TARANTO

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