Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Program in the Environment
lmotta@umich.edu
Office Information:
Rm 2029I Tisch
phone: 734.764.3337
Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art & Archaeology
Education/Degree:
PhD, Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 2011
CPGS, Archaeological Science, University of Cambridge, 1998
BA, Archaeology, University of Pisa, 1994
About
I am a paleoethnobotanist and my present research focuses on Iron Age Italy and the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin. I'm particularly interested in exploring social complexity through food production/redistribution patterns and in the early phases of the first cities. My current field work is at the site of the Archaic city of Gabii, near Rome and at Sant’Omobono in Rome.
Field(s) of Study
- Environmental archaeology, late prehistory, first millennium BCE Italy, complex societies and state formation processes, paleoethnobotany
