Formació acadèmica

2016 Doctorato en Arqueología, University of Sheffield (UK). Tesis “The Final Neolithic-Early Bronze Age transition in Phaistos, Crete: an investigation of the continuity and change in pottery manufacture”. Directores de la tesis: P.M. Day, S. Todaro, V. Kilikoglou, R. Doonan. Financiado para Marie Curie Initial Training Network NARNIA Project (New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to ancient material studies) (Grant agreement no.: 265010).

2010 Maestría en Arqueoología, Universitá del Salento (Italia). Tesis “The Use of Space in the Early Bronze Age on the basis of artefact distribution: the village of Coste di Santa Febronia”. Mención honorífica. Directores de la tesis: A.M. Bietti Sestieri, G.E. De Benedetto

Docència

Departmento de Historia y Arquelogia, Universitat de Barcelona, España:

2019-2020: Coordination, design and delivery of the course ‘Methods and Theory of Archaeological Science’ for the MA in Advanced Study of Archaeological Science

2018-2019: Design and delivery of the course ‘Methods and Theory of Archaeological Science’ for the MA in Advanced Study of Archaeological Science

Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK:

2017-2018: post-graduate student mentor

2016-2017: Design and delivery of lecture and laboratory classes for the ‘Introduction to Ceramic Petrography’ short course;

2016-2017: Design and delivery of tutoring classes, essay marking and feedback of UG AAP110 module ‘The Classical World and its legacy’;

2016-2017: Mentoring students’ group and individual project for the UG AAP234 ‘Archaeology Matters’;

2015-2016: Design and delivery of some of the laboratory classes for the UG AP115 module ‘Emerging Europe: From Storage to Stonehenge & State’;

2015-2016: Design and delivery of some of the laboratory classes for the PG AP646 module ‘Reconstructing Ancient Technologies: Ceramics’;

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016: Design and delivery of the laboratory practice for the MSc AAP6106 ‘Mineralogy and Petrography of Archaeological Ceramics’ module;

Dipartimento di Archeologia, Universitá degli Studi del Salento, Italy:

2010-2011: Design and delivery of the laboratory practice for the ‘Analytical Chemistry for Archaeology’ module.

Líneas de Recerca

Archaeologia del Mediterraneo: Pre/Protohistoria de Italia y de Mediterráneo; Medievo y Post-Medievo del Mediterráneo occidental.

Análisis de material cerámico: “use-wear” análisis; análisis de tecnología y proveniencia.

Estudios de cultura material: chaine operatoire, invención, trasferencia y transformación tecnológica.

Proyectes (actualmente vigentes)

2019-presente: “SPotEu: Sugar Pot manufacture in western Europe in the medieval and post-medieval period (11th -16th centuries AD)”, Individual Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, Universitat de Barcelona. Responsable del proyecto.

2019-presente: ‘Settlement system and human-environmental dynamics on Ustica islands during prehistory”, (Italy). Principal Investigator: C. Speciale. Responsable del estudio analítico de la cerámica.

2016-presente: ‘The Prehistoric site of Valcorrente, Belpasso (Catania)’, Universitá di Catania (Italy). Principal Investigators: O. Palio, S. Todaro and M. Turco. Responsable del estudio analítico de la cerámica.

2011-presente: ‘The characterization of the Final Neolithic to the Early Minoan III pottery from Phaistos, Crete’, Universitá di Catania (Italy)-University of Sheffield (UK)-NCSR Demokritos (Greece). Principal Investigators: S. Todaro, P. Day and V. Kilikoglou y R. Mentesana. Responsable del estudio analítico de la cerámica.

Publicaciones

Mentesana, R., Kilikoglou, V., Todaro, S., Day, P.M., 2019. Reconstructing change in firing technology during the Final Neolithic–Early Bronze Age transition in Phaistos, Crete. Just the tip of the iceberg? Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 871-894, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0572-8

Mentesana, R., De Benedetto, G.E. and Fiorentino, G. 2018. One Pot's tale: reconstructing the movement of people, materials and knowledge in Early Bronze Age Sicily through the microhistory of a vessel, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 19, June 2018, Pages 261-269, ISSN 2352-409X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.003.

Mentesana R., Amato V., Day P.M., Ghilardi M., Kilikoglou V., Longo F., Todaro S. 2016. Looking for the invisible: landscape change and ceramic manufacture during the Final Neolithic-Early Bronze Age at Phaistos, Crete, in M. Ghilardi (ed.), La Géoarchéologie des îles de Méditerranée (Geoarchaeology of the Mediterranean Islands): 299-310. Paris: CNRS éditions Alpha.

Mentesana R., Day P.M., Kilikoglou V. and S. Todaro 2016. United in our Differences: the production and consumption of pottery at EM IB Phaistos, Crete. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 7: 489-498. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.08.007

Mentesana, R., De Benedetto, G. E. and Fiorentino, G. 2015. Birch resin not only as climate marker: integration between chemical and paleobotanical analysis in Sicilian Prehistory. In P.M. Militello and H. Oniz (eds) SOMA 2011 Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011. BAR International Series 2695: 285-289.

Mentesana, R. 2015. Use of Space in the Early Bronze Age on the basis of artefact distribution: the village of Coste di Santa Febronia. In P.M. Militello and H. Oniz (eds) SOMA 2011 Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the University of Catania 3-5 March 2011. BAR International Series 2695: 259-264.

Mentesana, R., 2014. The Final Neolithic - Early Minoan transition in Phaistos, Crete: Continuity and change in pottery manufacture. In Kassianidou, V. and Dikomitou-Eliadou, M. (Eds.), The NARNIA project: Integrating approaches to ancient material studies: 20-31. The NARNIA project, Nicosia.