Brief Curriculum Vitae: Peter van Dommelen
Affiliations
2012-present
2012 (April)
2011 (Feb-Aug)
2008-2012
2005-2008
2005-2006
1997-2005
1998
1993-1997
1984-1990
August 2014
Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology, Brown
University
Visiting Professor at the University of the Balearics (Department of History), Palma
de Mallorca (Spain);
Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Cagliari (Italy);
Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Glasgow;
Senior Lecturer in (Mediterranean) Archaeology, University of Glasgow;
Visiting Professor in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of
Valencia (Spain);
Lecturer in (Mediterranean) Archaeology, University of Glasgow;
Ph.D. formally awarded cum laude (23 April) by the University of Leiden (the
Netherlands) for thesis On Colonial Grounds. A Comparative Study of Colonialism and
Rural Settlement in 1st Millennium B.C. West Central Sardinia (published 1998: see
below);
Graduate research assistant in the Department of Archaeology, Leiden University
(the Netherlands);
M.A.s in both Archaeology and Classics at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands
(specializing in theoretical and Classical archaeology), the former awarded cum laude on
10/09/1990; the latter awarded 20/09/1990.
Academic Memberships and Honorary Positions
2007-present co-editor of World Archaeology;
2006-present co-editor of Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology;
1994-2005
founding co-editor of Archaeological Dialogues (managing editor 2003-2005);
2013-present area editor (BA-IA W Mediterranean) for the on-line edition of the Wiley-Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
2013-present member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Archaeology
2012-present member of the editorial board of the Journal on Hellenistic and Roman Material Culture
2012-present member of the editorial board of Rivista di Studi Fenici;
2011-present member of the editorial board of Saguntum;
2010-present member of the editorial board of Carthage Studies;
2006-present member of the advisory board of Archaeological Dialogues;
2014-present member of the advisory board of the Scavi di Nora series (Padova);
2009-present member of the advisory board of the BABesch Supplementa series (Leuven);
1998-present member of the advisory board of ‘Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology’
(London).
2014-present member of the research group GRACME (Grup de Recerca d’Arqueologia
Mediterrània: Conexions, Materialitats i Escriptura), Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona;
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2013-present Corresponding Member of the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies;
2006-present member of the Centro de Estudios Fenicios y Púnicos (Madrid).
2013-2014
2011-2012
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Faculty Fellow;
honorary curator with Glasgow Museums.
Conferences & Named Lectures: Delivery, Organization and Chairing
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5th Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
(New York University, spring 2014)
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2nd Cicle de Conferències Arqueologia Prehistòrica presented to the research group
‘Arqueobalear’ of the Universidad de las Illes Balears under the title ‘La Mediterrània occidental al
primer mil•lenni BC’ (Palma de Mallorca, 3-27 April 2012)
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4th R. Ross Holloway Lecture at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology, Brown University
(Providence, RI, 7 November 2012)
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Publications
* indicates peer-reviewed
MONOGRAPHS and EDITED VOLUMES
forthcoming (2014-2015)
 with C. Gómez Bellard and G. Pérez Jordà (eds), Truncu’e Molas (Terralba, Oristano): un asentamiento
rural en la Cerdeña púnica. (Saguntum Extra). Valencia: University of Valencia Press.
2014
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(ed.) Mobility and Migration (World Archaeology 46.4). London: Routledge.
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*with A.B. Knapp (eds): Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
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*with A. Roppa (eds): Materiali e contesti nell’età del Ferro sarda (Rivista di Studi Fenici 41.1-2).
Rome: Fabrizio Serra.
2012
 with L. Foxhall (eds): Debates in World Archaeology. World Archaeology 44.3. London: Routledge
2011
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(ed.) Postcolonial Archaeologies (World Archaeology 43.1). London: Routledge.
2010
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*with A.B. Knapp (eds): Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility, Materiality and
Mediterranean Identities. London: Routledge.
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with C. Gómez Bellard (eds): Conexiones rurales. Explotación colonial, intensificación agraria y
poblamiento rural en el Mediterráneo occidental, Bollettino di Archeologia Online 0. (Atti del 17o
Congresso Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, Roma, 22-26 settembre 2006):
http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=11.
2008
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*with C. Gómez Bellard: Rural Landscapes of the Punic World (Monographs in Mediterranean
Archaeology 11), London: Equinox.
2007
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*with N. Terrenato (eds): Articulating Local Cultures. Power and Identity under the Expanding Roman
Republic, (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 64), Portsmouth, Rhode Island:
Journal of Roman Archaeology.
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with A.M. Arruda and C. Gómez Bellard (eds) Sítios e paisagens rurais no Mediterrâneo púnico.
Caderns da Uniarq 3; 6o Congresso Internacional de Estudos Fenícios e Púnicos. Lisbon: Colibri/Centro de
Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa.
1998
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On Colonial Grounds. A Comparative Study of Colonialism and Rural Settlement in 1st Millennium B.C.
West Central Sardinia, (Archaeological Studies Leiden University 2), Leiden: Faculty of
Archaeology, Leiden University.
1996
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with M. Prent (eds), The History, Theory and Methodology of Regional Archaeological Projects,
(Archaeological Dialogues 3, 137-255), Leiden and Assen: Archaeological Dialogues Foundation and
van Gorcum Publishers.
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JOURNAL ARTICLES (since 2000)
Forthcoming
 *with A. Roppa: Materiali e contesti nell’età del Ferro sarda: una breve premessa, Rivista di Studi
Fenici 41 (2013): ###.
 *with A. Roppa: Conclusioni: per una definizione dell'età del Ferro sarda, Rivista di Studi Fenici 41
(2013): ###.
2014
 Moving on: archaeological perspectives on mobility and migration. World Archaeology 46.4: 477483.
 *with C. Gómez Bellard: Anfore, vino e l'orto: per un'archeologia dei paesaggi rurali ed agrari nel
mondo punico. Rivista di Studi Fenici 40 (2012): 251-266.
 Fetishizing the Romans, Archaeological Dialogues 20: 41-45.
2013
 *with Xella, P., J. Quinn and V. Melchiorri: Phoenician bones of contention, Antiquity 87 (338):
1199-1207
 *with C. Nicosia, R. Langohr, P. Carmona González, C. Gómez Bellard, E. Modrall and J.M. Ruiz
Pérez: Land use history and site formation processes at the Punic site of Pauli Stincus in west
central Sardinia. Geoarchaeology 28.4: 373-393.
2012
 *Colonialism and migration in the ancient Mediterranean, Annual Review of Anthropology 41 (2012):
393-409.
 *with A. Roppa: rural settlement and land use in Punic and Roman Republican Sardinia, Journal of
Roman Archaeology 25: 49-68.
 with C. Gómez Bellard: Contadini punici a Terralba: fattorie ed agricoltura terralbesi in età punica,
Terralba ieri & oggi 26.51: 21-23.
 With A.B. Knapp and J. Cherry: Editorial: JMA’s Silver Anniversary (1988–2012), Journal of
Mediterranean Archaeology 25.2: 129-146.
2011
 Postcolonial archaeologies between discourse and practice, World Archaeology 43.1: 1-6.
 with E. Díes Cusí and C. Gómez Bellard: Excavaciones en la granja púnica de Pauli Stincus
(Terralba, Cerdeña), Saguntum 42 (2010): 123-127.
2010
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Complex histories, Archaeological Dialogues 17.1: 37-41.
2009
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*Local histories in Sardinia, Journal of Roman Archaeology 22: 455-457.
2008
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*with A.B. Knapp, Past Practices: Rethinking Individuals and Agents in Archaeology, Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 18.1: 15-34
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with C. Gómez Bellard and C. Tronchetti: The Punic farmstead at Truncu ' Molas (Sardinia, Italy):
excavations 2007, Antiquity 82 (315): http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/vandommelen1/.
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van Dommelen, P. and C. Gómez Bellard: Una fattoria punica in località Truncu 'e Molas, Terralba
ieri & oggi 44: 37-39.
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*Putting Punic Pantelleria on the map, Journal of Roman Archaeology 21: 392-394.
2007
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with C. Gómez Bellard: La excavación de la granja púnica de Truncu ‘e Molas (Terralba, Cerdeña),
Saguntum 39: 179-183.
2006
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*Punic farms and Carthaginian colonists: surveying Punic rural settlement in the central
Mediterranean. Journal of Roman Archaeology 19: 1-22.
2005
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*with C. Tronchetti: Entangled objects and hybrid practices. Colonial contacts and elite
connections at Monte Prama, Sardinia, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 18: 183-208.
2004
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with L. Sharpe: Surveying Punic rural settlement: the Terralba Rural Settlement Project, Sardinia,
Antiquity 78 (299), http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/vandommelen/.
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Een alledaagse kijk op romanisering, Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 32, 4-51.
2001
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Beyond domination and resistance: colonial culture and local identities in Classical Sardinia,
American Journal of Archaeology 105 (2), 253.
2000
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Writing ancient Mediterranean landscapes. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 13.2: 230-236.
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Material concerns and boundless diversity. A review of the Journal of Material Culture, European
Journal of Archaeology 3 (3), 409-416.
BOOK CHAPTERS (since 2000)
forthcoming
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*with Foxhall, L., J. Fiadeiro, A. Harding, C. Haselgrove, K. Rebay-Salisbury, E. Tuosto and I.
Whitbread: Tracing Networks: technological knowledge, cultural contact and knowledge
exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and beyond, in E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling and L.
Isaksen (eds), New Worlds out of Old Texts: Developing Techniques for the Spatial Analysis of Ancient
Narratives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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*with Foxhall, L., K. Rebay-Salisbury, R. Salisbury, A. Brysbaert, J. Fiadeiro, C. Haselgrove, Y.
Hong, M. Solanki, E. Tuosto and I. Whitbread: Tracing networks: tracking objects, modeling
movements, in D. Peterson and J. Dudgeon (eds), The Archaeology of Circulation, Exchange and
Human Migration: Techniques, Cases, Evidence. London: Equinox.
2014
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*Punic Identities and Modern perceptions in the Western Mediterranean, in J. Quinn and N. Vella
(eds), Identifying the Punic Mediterranean (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at
Rome). Rome: British School at Rome.
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*Subaltern archaeologies, in N. Ferris and R. Harrison (eds), Rethinking Colonial Pasts through
Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2013
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*with M. López Bertran, Hellenism as subaltern practice: rural cults in the Punic world, in J. Prag
and J. Quinn (eds), The Hellenistic West. Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge: CUP, 273299.
2012
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*Commentary: Roman places in the making. In D. Totten and K. Lafrenz Samuels (eds), Making
Roman Places, Past and Present. Papers presented at the first Critical Roman Archaeology Conference held
at Stanford University in March, 2008. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 89.
Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 104-108.
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*with M. Rowlands, Material concerns and colonial encounters, in J. Maran and P. Stockhammer
(eds), Materiality and Practice. Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters. Oxford: Oxbow,
20-31.
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with C. Gómez Bellard and C. Tronchetti: Insediamento rurale e produzione agraria nella
Sardegna punica: la fattoria di Truncu ‘e Molas (Terralba, OR), in C. Del Vais (ed.), Scritti in
memoria di Giovanni Tore. Oristano: S'Alvure, 477-492.
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with C. Gómez Bellard: Excavaciones en la granja púnica de Pauli Stincus (Terralba, Cerdeña).
Informe preliminar de la campaña de 2011. In Excavaciones en el Exterior 2011. (Informes y Trabajos
9). Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, 340-347.
2011
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with C. Gómez Bellard: Estudio del yacimiento de Truncu’e Molas (Terralba, Cerdeña, Italia).
Campaña de 2009, in Excavaciones en el exterior 2009. (Informes y Trabajos 5). Madrid: Ministerio de
Cultura, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, 120-125.
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with M. Trapichler: Fabrics of western central Sardinia. In V. Gassner (ed.), Fabrics of the Central
Mediterranean: Provenance Studies on Pottery in the Southern Central Mediterranean from the 6th to the
2nd c. B.C. http://facem.at/project/papers.php. Vienna: University of Vienna.
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with M. Trapichler: Fabrics of western Sardinia. In V. Gassner (ed.), Fabrics of the Central
Mediterranean: Provenance Studies on Pottery in the Southern Central Mediterranean from the 6th to the
2nd c. B.C. http://facem.at/project/papers.php. Vienna: University of Vienna.
2010
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Response: local representations, Bollettino di Archeologia Online 0. In 'Colonising a Colonised
Territory. Settlements with Punic Roots in Roman Times', ed. A. Jiménez Díez:
http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/bao_document/articoli/8_van%20Dommelen_response.pdf.
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*with A.B. Knapp: Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities, in P.
van Dommelen and A. B. Knapp (eds), Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean: Mobility,
Materiality and Mediterranean Identities. London: Routledge,
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with C. Gómez Bellard: Introduzione: connessioni rurali, Bollettino di Archeologia Online 0. In
'Conexiones Rurales', eds P. van Dommelen and C. Gómez Bellard:
http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/bao_document/articoli/1_vanDommelen_GomezBellard_Introducti
on.pdf.
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with C. Gómez Bellard: Paisajes rurales del mundo púnico, Bolletino di Archeologia Online 0.In
'Conexiones Rurales', eds P. van Dommelen and C. Gómez Bellard:
http://151.12.58.75/archeologia/bao_document/articoli/2_GomezBellard_vanDommelen_paper.pdf.
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with C. Gómez Bellard and C. Tronchetti: Une ferme punique en Sardaigne: fouilles sur le site de
Truncu’e Molas (Terralba, Oristano), in R. De Simone (ed.), Scritti in memoria di Antonella Spanò.
Palermo, 99-109.
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with C. Gómez Bellard and G. Pérez Jordá, Produzione agraria nella Sardegna punica fra cereali e
vino, in M. Milanese, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara and R. Zucca (eds), L'Africa romana. I luoghi e le forme
dei mestieri e della produzione nelle province africane (Atti del XVIII convegno di studio, Olbia, 11-14
dicembre 2008) (L'Africa Romana 18). Rome: Carocci, 1187-1202.
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with Pérez Jordà, G., J. Morales Pérez, R. Marlasca Martín and C. Gómez Bellard: La alimentación
en una granja púnica de Cerdeña, in C. Mata Parreño, G. Pérez Jordà and J. Vives-Ferrándiz
Sánchez (eds), De la cuina a la taula. IV Reunió d'Economia en el Primer Mil·lenni a.C. (Saguntum Extra
9). Valencia: Universitat de València, 295-302.
2008
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*Colonialismo: presente y pasado. Prospectivas poscoloniales y arqueológicas sobre contextos
coloniales, in A. Delgado Hervás and G. Cano (eds), De Tartessos a Manila: siete estudios coloniales y
postcoloniales. Valencia: Universitat de València, 47-86.
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with C. Gómez Bellard and C. Tronchetti, La excavación de la granja púnica de Truncu ‘e Molas
(Terralba, Cerdeña), in Excavaciones en el exterior 2007. Informes y trabajos (Instituto del Patrimonio
Cultural Español). Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 67-70.
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with N. de Bruijn, H. Loney, R. Puig Moragón and A. Roppa, Ceramica punica dal sito rurale di
Truncu 'e Molas (Terralba, Sardegna). In J. González, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara and R. Zucca (eds.),
L'Africa romana. Le ricchezze dell'Africa. Risorse, produzioni, scambi (Atti del XVII convegno di studio,
Sevilla, 14-17 dicembre 2006). L'Africa Romana 17. Rome: Carocci, 1617-1626.
2007
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*Beyond resistance: Roman power and local traditions in Punic Sardinia, in P. van Dommelen and
N. Terrenato (eds), Articulating Local Cultures. Power and Identity under the Expanding Roman
Republic (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 64). Portsmouth, RI: Journal of
Roman Archaeology, 55-70.
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with N. Terrenato, Introduction: local cultures and the expanding Roman Republic, in P. van
Dommelen and N. Terrenato (eds), Articulating local cultures. Power and identity under the expanding
Roman Republic (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 64). Portsmouth, RI: Journal
of Roman Archaeology, 7-12.
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with A.M. Arruda and C. Gómez Bellard, Apresentação / Presentación, in A. M. Arruda, C. Gómez
Bellard and P. Van Dommelen (eds), Sítios e Paisagens rurais no Mediterrâneo Púnico Caderns da
Uniarq 3; 6o Congresso Internacional de Estudos Fenícios e Púnicos. Lisbon: Colibri/Centro de
Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, 5-16.
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with M. Kostoglou and L. Sharpe, Fattorie puniche e l'economia rurale della Sardegna punica: il
progetto Terralba. In A.M. Arruda, C. Gómez Bellard and P. Van Dommelen (eds), Sítios e
Paisagens rurais no Mediterrâneo Púnico. Caderns da Uniarq 3; 6o Congresso Internacional de Estudos
Fenícios e Púnicos. Lisbon: Colibri/Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, 51-66.
2006
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*Colonial matters. Material culture and postcolonial theory in colonial situations, in C. Tilley, W.
Keane, S. Kuechler, M. Rowlands and P. Spyer (eds), Handbook of material culture, London: Sage,
267-308.
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*The orientalising phenomenon: hybridity and material culture in the western Mediterranean, in
C. Riva and N. Vella (eds), Approaching Orientalisation (Monographs in Mediterranean
Archaeology), London: Equinox, 136-154.
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*with F. Gerritsen and A.B. Knapp: Common places. Archaeologies of community and landscape,
in P. Attema, B. Nijboer and A. Zifferero (eds), Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Italian
Archaeology (Groningen, April 2003) (BAR Int.Ser.), Oxford: Archaeopress, 55-63.
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with L. Sharpe and K. McLellan: Insediamento rurale nella Sardegna punica: il progetto Terralba
(Sardegna), in A. Akerraz, P. Ruggeri, A. Siraj and C. Vismara (eds), Mobilità delle persone e dei
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popoli, dinamiche migratorie, emigrazioni e immigrazioni nelle province occidentali dell'Impero romano
(Africa Romana 16), Rome: Carocci, 153-173.
2005
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*Colonial interactions and hybrid practices. Phoenician and Carthaginian settlement in the ancient
Mediterranean, in G. Stein (ed.), The archaeology of colonial encounters. Comparative perspectives
(School of American research advanced seminars series), Santa Fe: School of American Research,
109-141.
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*Urban foundations? Colonial settlement and urbanisation in the western Mediterranean, in B.
Cunliffe and R. Osborne (eds), Mediterranean Urbanisation, 800-600 BC (Proceedings of the British
Academy 126), London: British Academy, 143-167.
2003
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*Insediamento rurale ed organizzazione agraria nella Sardegna centro-occidentale, in C. Gómez
Bellard (ed.), Ecohistoria del paesaje agrario. La agricoltura fenicio-púnica en el Mediterráneo, Valencia:
Universitat de València, 129-149.
2002
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*Ambiguous matters: colonialism and local identities in Punic Sardinia, in C. Lyons and J.
Papadopoulos (eds), The Archaeology of Colonialism (Issues & Debates), Los Angeles: Getty Research
Institute, 121-147.
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*with A.B. Knapp: The Mediterranean, in D. Hardesty (ed.), World Cultural Heritage, UNESCO
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (http://www.eolss.net), Paris and Oxford: Unesco and EOLSS
Publishers.
2001
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*Cultural imaginings. Punic tradition and local identity in Roman Republican Sardinia, in S. Keay
and N. Terrenato (eds), Italy and the West. Comparative Issues in Romanisation, Oxford: Oxbow
Books, 54-70.
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Macht, verzet en folklore op het Sardische platteland, in E. van Rossenberg, C. Harmsen and E.
Kaptijn (eds), Een zeemansgraf. Feestbundel bij het afscheid van Piet van de Velde, Leiden: Faculteit der
archeologie, universiteit Leiden, 49-54.
2000
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Insediamento rurale in età punica nella Sardegna centro-occidentale, in M.-E. Aubet and M.
Barthélemy (eds), Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Estudios Fenicios e Púnicos, Cádiz, 2-6 Octubre
1995, Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, 1419-1428.
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Momenti coloniali. Cultura materiale e categorie coloniali nell'archeologia classica, in N. Terrenato
(ed.), Archeologia teorica (Atti del X Ciclo di Lezioni sulla Ricerca Applicata in Campo Archeologico)
Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), 9-14 agosto 1999, Florence: All'Insegna del Giglio, 293-310.
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*Post depositional effects and ceramic analysis: comment on Jeremy Taylor, ‘Depositional and
post-depositional effects on ploughsoil ceramic assemblages’, in R. Francovich and H. Patterson
(eds), Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages. (The Archaeology of Mediterranean
Landscapes 5). Oxford: Oxbow Books, 27-28.
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Luoghi naturali e spazi culturali nella Sardegna punica, in A. Pasquale (ed.), La materia e il segno.
Natura e civiltà nel tempo, Genova: Associazione culturale 'le arie del tempo', 39-47.
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