Mag. Dr.
Pamela Fragnoli
Senior Academy Scientist
Leader Archaeometry
RG »Object Itineraries«
Contact
Email: pamela.fragnoli(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 51581-4105
Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Degrees in Archaeological Science from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. 2012 Doctorate at the University of Ferrara. Since 2012 participation in various international projects in the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. Post-doc scholarship at the universities of Naples and Heidelberg as well as the FU Berlin. Since 2017 scientific employee at the OeAI and responsible for the area of archaeometry. Since 2021 head of archaeometry of the Research Group »Object Itineraries«.
Research Projects
- »Lousoi, Northern Peloponnese and Metapontion: Preclassic and Hellenistic Pottery«
- »Arslantepe and Northern Mesopotamia: A Diachronic Approach to Characterising Ceramic Production Organisation«
- »Arabien: Ceramic Production Technology and Exchange Networks of a Desert Oasis«
- »Ephesos: Clay Raw Materials and Ceramic Archaeometry«
- »Ephesos and Noricum: Pigments and Mortars«
- »Archaeometric Analysis of Roman Bricks from Noricum«
- Cross-Craft Interactions and Non-Ceramic Clay Objects from Arslantepe
- Ubaid Pottery from Tell Zurghul, Dhi Qar, Iraq
Research interests
- Diachronic study of craft organisation in relation to cultural, economic and political changes (e.g. centralisation, decentralisation, urbanisation, industrialisation, migration and colonisation processes).
- Reconstructing micro- and macro-exchange networks, taking into account raw materials, objects of different meaning and function as well as ideas, models and technological knowledge involved.
- Raw material procurement and subsistence economy in ancient landscapes
- Cross-craft interactions and related phenomena of technology transfer, innovation and skeuomorphism
- Application of interdisciplinary approaches, multi-analytical methods and diverse statistical procedures to the study of ancient ceramic production
Publications
Journal Publication (15)
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(2024) Earthen stories. Cross-craft strategies in raw material procurement andproduction at the tell site of Arslantepe (Türkiye) during the 4thmillennium BCE. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Bd. 54, S. 1-23.
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D´Anna, Maria Bianca; Sanders, Akiva; Fragnoli, Pamela (2022) The Late Chalcolithic Pottery of the Malatya and Altınova Regions: Distinct but Overlapping Communities of Practice. Istanbuler Mitteilungen, Bd. 72 (2022), S. 11-55.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Frangipane, Marcella (2022) Centralisation and decentralisation processes and pottery production at Arslantepe (SE Anatolia)during the 4th and early 3rd millennium BCE., Bd. /, S. 1-29.
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Pamela Fragnoli, ; Ugarković, Marina; Sterba, Johannes H.; Sauer, Roman (2021) Looking for Ephesian workshops: an integrated petrographic, geochemical, and chrono-typological approach to Late Hellenistic Ephesos lamps. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14, Bd. 14 (19), S. 1-23.
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Volpi, Luca; Fragnoli, Pamela (2021) Petrography-based discrimination of production areas within southern Mesopotamia: New data on the Ubaid pottery from Tell Zurghul (Dhi Qar, Iraq). Origini, Bd. XLV, S. 35-62.
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Cereda, Susanna; Fragnoli, Pamela (2021) Petrography and Micromorphology Face-to-Face: the Potential of Multivocality in the Study of Earth-Based Archaeological Materials., Bd. Volume 20, Issue 1/2021, S. 1-10.
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Fragnoli, Pamela (2021) Re-assessing the notion(s) of craft standardization through diversity statistics: A pilot study on Late Chalcolithic pottery from Arslantepe in Eastern Anatolia. PlosOne, Bd. 16/1, S. 1-37.
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Fragnoli, Pamela (2020) Petrographic and neutron activation analysis of Late Iron Age amphorae from the south western Iberian peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Bd. 34, S. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102598.
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Fragnoli, Pamela (2018) Pottery production in pastoral communities: Archaeometric analysis on the LC3-EBA1 Handmade Burnished Ware from Arslantepe (in the Anatolian Upper Euphrates). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Bd. Volume 18, April 2018, S. 318-332.
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Cannavò, Valentina; Photos-Jones, Effie; Levi, Sara Tiziana; Brunelli, Daniele; Fragnoli, Pamela et al. [..] (2017) P-XRF analysis of multi-period Impasto and Cooking Pot wares from the excavations at Stromboli-San Vincenzo, Aeolian Islands, Italy. Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, Bd. Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, S. 326-333.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Palmieri, Alberto Maria (2017) Petrographic and geochemical investigations on the pottery production from Arslantepe-Malatya (Eastern Anatolia) from 4th to 2nd millennium BCE: technological continuity, innovation and cultural change. Archaeometry, Bd. 59/4, S. 612–641.
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(2013) Bronze Age Pottery from the Aeolian Islands: definition of Temper Compositional Reference Units by an integrated mineralogical and microchemical approach. Applied Physics A. Material Sciences & Processing, Bd. 113/4, S. 855–863.
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Mentesana, Roberta; Fragnoli, Pamela The role of ceramic analyses in shaping our understanding of the cultural landscapes of protohistoric Sicily and the Aeolian islands. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Bd. 30, S. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102205.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Boccalon, Elisa; Liberotti, Giovanna Designing a ‘yellow brick road’ for the archaeometric analyses of fired and unfired bricks. Journal of Cultural Heritage, Bd. 59, S. 231-246.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Manuelli, Federico Petrographic and geochemical analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age pottery from Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey): insights into the local organization of the production and extra‑regional networks of exchange. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Bd. 15(8), S. 112-136.
Conference Contribution: Publication in Proceedings (7)
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Mallegni, Chiara (2016) Society and Visual Image Transmission. The Painted Pottery During the Early Bronze Age at Arslantepe and in the Malatya-Elazığ Area. (9th ICAANE, Basel 2014) In Reihe: Proceedings of the 9th ICAANE, Basel 2014, Vol. 1, hrsg. v. Kaelin, Oskar; Stucky, Rolf; Jamieson, Andrew.
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Albanese, Rosa Maria; Carpenito, Giulio; Fragnoli, Pamela; Levi, Sara Tiziana; Vezzalini, Giovanna (2013) La ceramica della necropoli di Madonna del Piano (CT): confronto fra classi ceramiche mediante analisi tecnologica e archeometrica. (XLI Riunione Scientifica dell´Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Dai Ciclopi agli Ecisti società e territorio nella Sicilia preistorica e protostorica, San Cipirello (PA) 16-19.11.2006).
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Giannitrapani, Enrico; Iannì, Filippo; Levi, Sara Tiziana; Mani, Annalina (2012) Indagine archeometrica sulla tecnologia produttiva e la composizione della ceramica preistorica e protostorica di Tornambè (EN). (VII Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria).
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Ferranti, Francesca; Cannavò, Valentina; Corti, Silvia; Fragnoli, Pamela (2012) Eoliano non eoliano? Questo è il problema. Il caso delle ceramiche di San Vincenzo-Stromboli (ME). (Atti del VII Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria) In Reihe: Atti A.I.Ar 2012, VII Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria (Modena 22-24.2.2012), hrsg. v. Vezzalini, Giovanna; Zannini, Paolo.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Brunelli, Daniele; Levi, Sara Tiziana; Martinelli, Maria Clara; Renzulli, Alberto et al. [..] (2012) Scambi ceramici nei contesti Capo Graziano delle isole Eolie: dati petrografici e petrologici a confronto. In Reihe: Atti A.I.Ar 2012, VII Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria (Modena 22-24.2.2012), hrsg. v. Vezzalini, Giovanna; Zannini, Paolo.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Levi, Sara Tiziana; Brunelli, Daniele (2012) Untersuchungen zum inter- und extrainsularen Umlauf der bronzezeitlicher Keramik. In: Ramminger, Barbara; Stilborg, Ole (Hrsg.) (Dritter und vierter internationaler Workshop für junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in Hamburg am 13. Februar 2010 und 5. Februar 2011), hrsg. v. Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Keramik II: Methoden, Anwendungsbereiche, Auswertungsmöglichkeiten.
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Fragnoli, Pamela Uno strumento classificatorio per l’osservazione macroscopica degli impasti di Punta di Zambrone (VV): la Scheda Tecnologica di manufatto Ceramico.
Contribution in Collection (18)
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Eder, Birgitta; Fragnoli, Pamela; Gauß, Walter (2023) Keramik im Brennpunkt naturwissenschaftlicher Analysen. In: Eder, Birgitta; Baier, Christoph; Gauß, Walter (Hrsg.), Ein anderes Griechenland. 125 Jahre Forschungen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen zum antiken Griechenland / Μια άλλη Ελλάδα. 125 χρόνια έρευνας του Αυστριακού Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Αθηνών για την Αρχαία Ελλάδα; Athen: Kapon, S. 442-447.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Hinker, Christoph (2022) Anmerkung zur Petrographie der Keramikfunde, in: Ein provinzialrömischer Kultplatz auf der Gradisce bei Sankt Egyden, C. Hinker (Hrsg.), Sonderschriften Band 62.
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Pamela Fragnoli, Hans Mommsen, Reinhard Jung (2021) Production Regions and Technology of Pottery at Punta di Zambrone: NAA and Petrography in a Combined Approach. In: Jung, Reinhard (Hrsg.), Punta di Zambrone I. 1200 BCE – a Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece; Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, S. 321–343.
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Fragnoli, Pamela (2019) IX.2 (Re)defining ceramic wares and spheres of production in Arslantepe´s period VII. The contribution of petrographic and geochemical analyses. In: Balossi Restelli, F. (Hrsg.), Arslantepe Late Chalcolithic 3-4. Growth in Complexity in the 4th millennium Upper Euphrates Valley, S. 357-367.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Liberotti, Giovanna (2019) IX.3 Cross-craft strategies in raw material procurement: ceramics, mud bricks and other clay-based artefacts. In: Balossi Restelli, F. (Hrsg.), Arslantepe Late Chalcolithic 3-4. Growth in Complexity in the 4th millennium Upper Euphrates Valley, S. 367–380.
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Fragnoli, Pamela (2019) Minero-petrographic and geochemical analyses on the Chalcolithic pottery assemblage from Mersin-Yumuktepe. In: Palumbi, G.; Caneva, I. (Hrsg.), The Chalcolithic at Mersin Yumuktepe. The Level XVI revised; Istanbul, S. 119-128.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Levi, Sara Tiziana (2018) Appendice III. Indagine archeometrica della ceramica della necropoli di Madonna del Piano (CT): tecnologie e classi ceramiche a confronto., Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei; Rom, S. 685–699.
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Jacobs, Arianne; Borgers, Barbara; Makarona, Christina; Renson, Virginie; Mommsen, Hans et al. [..] (2017) Archaeometric Studies on Plain Ware Composition and Manufacturing Techniques. In: Hadjisavvas, S. (Hrsg.), Alassa. Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000; Nikosia, S. 539–558.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Levi, Sara Tiziana (2013) Analisi minero-petrografiche di alcune ceramiche dell’età del ferro da Calanna. In: D´Agostino, Rossella (Hrsg.), Le grotticelle di Calanna. Una necropoli dell’età del Ferro nell’area dello Stretto.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Levi, Sara Tiziana (2012) Pottery fabric. In: Leighton, Robert (Hrsg.), Prehistoric Houses at Morgantina. Excavations on the Cittadella of Morgantina in Sicily (1989-2004).
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Levi, Sara Tiziana; Fragnoli, Pamela (2011) Le analisi archeometriche delle ceramiche. In: Martinelli, Maria Clara (Hrsg.), Archeologia delle isole Eolie, il villaggio dell’età del Bronzo Medio di Portella a Salina, Ricerche 2006 e 2008. Omaggio a Luigi Bernabò Brea nel centenario della sua nascita; Milano: Rebus Edizioni.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Levi, Sara Tiziana (2011) Petrographic analysis of pottery from Pyla-Kokkinokremos: preliminary report. In: Karageorghis, Vassos; Kouka, Ourania (Hrsg.), On cooking pots, drinking cups, loom weights and ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and neighbouring regions, An International Archaeological Symposium held in Nicosia, November 6th-7th 2010; Nicosia: Leventis Foundation.
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D´Anna, Bianca; Fragnoli, Pamela A walk to the Narrenturm in Vienna. Remarks on the Heritagization of Psychiatric Institutions., "WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ARCHAEOLOGY?" Essays on the Occasion of the 65th Birthday of Reinhard Bernbeck, Sidestone, Leiden, S. 295-306.
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Fragnoli, Pamela Appendix VII. Archeometric Studies of Plain Ware Composition and Manufactering technique, in: S. Hadjisavvas (Hrsg.), Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mandilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000., S. 539–558.
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Fragnoli, Pamela; Rodler, S. Alexandra Archaeometric and Technological Investigations of the Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery from Arslantepe (Malatya, Eastern Türkiye), in: Manuelli F, Miele D.P. (eds), Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery Traditions at the Margins of the Hittite State.
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Production Regions and Technology of Pottery at Punta di Zambrone: NAA and Petrography in a Combined Approach, in: Punta di Zambrone I: 1200 BCE - A Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece, Reinhard Jung (Ed.).
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The Impasto Pottery of Punta di Zambrone (Vibo Valentia, Calabria): Production, Use, Function and Exchanges within the South-Italian Recent Bronze Age Scenario, in: Punta di Zambrone I: 1200 BCE - A Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece, Reinhard Jung (Ed.).
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Fragnoli, Pamela IX.1 The introduction of the potter wheel in Arslantepe´s period VII: integrated observations on a micro-, meso- and macroscale level,. In: Balossi Restelli, F. (Hrsg.), Arslantepe Late Chalcolithic 3-4. Growth in Complexity in the 4th millennium Upper Euphrates Valley; Rom, S. 345-357.