Research Title: Prehistoric Chert Exploitation, Technology, and Distribution Systems in the Northern Euphrates Basin during the 4th to 3rd Millennia BCE: The Case of Arslantepe (Malatya Plain, Eastern Anatolia)
Dr. Moscone is a prehistoricarchaeologistspecializing in lithictechnology. He is mainlyinterested in siliceousrawmaterialsexploitation, techniques of bladeproduction,andnetworks of diffusion of ideas, techniques, goods,andpeople. He has a longrecord of fieldworkexperiencespanningthroughtheMediterranean, Africa,andtheMiddle East in contextsdatedfromtheNeolithictotheBronze Age. Since 2015, he ismember, as lithic analyst, of several archaeological expeditions active in Anatolia and Iraq. In 2020, he received his PhDdegree at SapienzaUniversity of Rome (Italy) discussing an interdisciplinarythesisbased on thestudy of socio-economicdynamicsbeyondrawmaterialprocurementandlargechertbladeproductionanddistributionfromtheLateChalcolithictotheEarlyBronze Age period in thenorth-western KurdistanRegion of Iraq. As an ANAMED post-doctoralresearchfellow, he isinvestigatingtheprocurementandexploitation of chertrawmaterials at Arslantepe (Malatya). Thestudyisimprinted on a diachronicperspectiveconsideringthemajorsocialchangesthatoccurredduringtheLateChalcolithicandtheEarlyBronze Age phases at the site (periods VII-VI). Thelithicassemblagesfromthishigh-resolutionsequencearebeinganalyzedbycombiningthetechnologicalapproachand a Non-destructive Multi-parametric Protocol forChertInvestigation (NM-PCI).
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