Florinda Notarstefano

Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology

Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento (Lecce-Italy)

Nationality: Italian

Employment

2022-, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento

2019-2022, Senior researcher of Classical Archaeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento

2015 – 2018, Junior researcher of Classical Archaeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento

Academic Titles

2021, Habilitation to Associate Professor (10/A1-Archaeology), Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research

2008, PhD in Archaeology, Catholic University of Milan

2001, Advanced Master, Postgraduate School of Archaeology-University of Lecce

1997, BA in Letters, University of Lecce

Teaching Experience

2019-, Graduate Courses in Greek Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Enhancement of Archaeological Heritage, Postgraduate Courses in Greek Archaeology

2015-2018, Graduate Courses in Laboratory of Archaeological Pottery

Professional Associations

Member of the PhD school in “Science of Cultural Heritage”, University of Salento.

Member of the Italian Archaeological Mission at Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey)

Member of the Italian Archaeological Mission at Malta

Member of the Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS)

Research interests:

Functional analysis and typological study of ceramic productions from archaeological sites of the Mediterranean area; application of analytical chemistry techniques for the identification of organic residues in pottery and sediments; archaeology of settlements and historical landscapes.

Florinda Notarstefano is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Salento in Lecce (Italy). She holds a MA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Lecce and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Milan. Her research activity focuses on the functional study of pottery and the application of chemical analytical techniques (Gas chromatography-Mass spectrometry) for the identification of organic contents aimed at reconstructing pottery function, ancient food practices and the use of space. She has participated in a range of scientific projects as a specialist in the classification of ceramic assemblages from different archaeological sites of the Mediterranean area (Southern Italy, Sicily, Rome, Greece, Malta and Turkey) combining analytical investigations and integrating the resulting data with historical and archaeological contexts. Since 2000, she is a member of the Italian Archaeological Missions at Tas Silg (Malta) and at Hierapolis of Phrygiae (Turkey), where she has acquired an extensive knowledge on Punic and Roman pottery productions.

She is professor of Greek art history and archaeology for the graduate course in Cultural Heritage at the University of Salento and professor of Roman archaeology for the graduate courses of Conservation Technologies/Fine Arts at An-Lai School (NWU-Xi’an).