Marta Doglio
Biography
Marta graduated from the University of Pavia in 2017 with a B.A. in Classics and completed her M.A. summa cum laude in Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Pisa in 2021. She received honors for her thesis, which combined the study of the so-called Alişar IV pottery with a reconstruction of the social and political context in which this ceramic production took place in Anatolia during the Middle Iron Age.
Marta is a member of several archaeological projects, including the Uşaklı Höyük Archaeological Project in Türkiye (2019–present), the Marad-Tell As Sadoum Archaeological Project in Iraq (2021–2022), and the Gird-i Matrab Archaeological Project in Iraq (2022–present), where she serves as trench supervisor and pottery specialist. She has also participated in excavations with the Kınık Höyük Archaeological Project in Türkiye (2017) and the Gravisca Project in Italy (2018). In addition to her fieldwork, she completed an internship at the Museo Egizio in Turin, where she worked on the chrono-typological classification of Proto-Dynastic ceramic assemblages.
Her research interests include ancient material culture, with a specific focus on pottery and its chaîne opératoire, addressing issues of innovation, technological choices, organization of production, and adoption processes. She is also interested in phenomena of social complexity, transformation, and adaptation in past communities, particularly in relation to moments of socio-political rupture in Southwest Asia.