Marcella Frangipane | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome (BS, PhD) |
Awards | Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeology Prehistory Protohistory Near East [1] |
Institutions | Sapienza University of Rome Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia |
Website | www |
Marcella Frangipane (born 10 October 1948) is a professor of archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome. She works on the prehistory and protohistory of the Near East and Middle East. [1] She was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2013. [2]
Frangipane was born in Palermo. [2] She studied humanities with honours in archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome, and graduated cum laude in 1972. [2] Early in her career she spent three years in the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, where she learned new techniques in anthropology. [2] [3] She has been involved with several excavations, in Europe, Mexico, Turkey and Egypt. [3] She was involved the excavation of Cunalan village in the Teotihuacan valley. [4] She has been involved with the excavation team of the Arslantepe since 1976. [5]
Frangipane returned to the Sapienza University of Rome in 1981, where she eventually became a Professor in 1990. [3] She led the School of Archaeology from 2000 to 2003, and was made Vice Director of the Late Predynastic site of Maadi. [3] [6] Frangipane studies the formation of bureaucratic and hierarchical structures in urban societies. [5] She is mainly interested in the near and Middle East. [5]
Frangipane was made Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Eastern Anatolia in 1990. [7] [8] She was involved with the excavation of Arslantepe, where she reconstructed their early administrative systems. [2] This work was supported by the National Geographic. [9] The settlement is west of the banks of the Euphrates and is well known for its architecture. [10] Frangipane identified the most ancient secular public structure worldwide. [10] Arslantepe was included in the UNESCO cultural heritage list in 2014 owing to the significance of Frangipane's findings. [11] She investigated the site of Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük, a village in the Urfa district. [12] Within Arslantepe, Frangipane led the team who discovered the word's oldest royal palace. [13] She was also involved with excavations of
She was the first Italian woman to be elected a foreign associate to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. [14]
Her awards and honours include;
Frangipane s a member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Shanghai Archeology Forum. [20]
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