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Costanza Coppini
E-mail: Costanza.Coppini@fu-berlin.de
Research Interests:
Near Eastern Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, chronology, periodizations, ceramic studies, settlements archaeology, landscape archaeology, political history
Biography
Constanza Coppini is an Einstein Center Chronoi Fellow, coordinating the project "Synchronwelten: Synchronizations and Synchronicities as Historical and Archaeological Practice," while collaborating on research projects in Iraqi Kurdistan and southern Iraq. She completed her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2014, where she also held a research position at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology, working within the project "Archaeological Excavations at Tell Fekheriye, Syria." In 2017-2018, she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Udine. From 2018 to 2020, as a White-Levy Fellow, she led the research project "The Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlement and Ceramic Production at Tell Barri and Tell Bazi".
Project Abstract
The present research proposal aims at investigating (A)Synchronicities in the archaeological record of the Ancient Near East. Assuming that the sequence of settlement phases expresses within the archaeological record the flowing of Time, evidence of changes affecting a settlement and the communities expresses (a)synchronicities. A change affecting the political order in which they live or their culture does not necessary affect their everyday life or the perception of their contemporary time. (A)Synchronicities are often expressed in the concepts of resiliency, crisis and collapse.
These three concepts are often misused in the interpretation of the archaeological record. The analysis of these three elements, applied to a specific historical period, will enable to better define the concept of (a)synchronicity in archaeology.
The resulting models from this project, focusing mainly on Transtigrine examples, will constitute the theoretic framework for a larger project, to be affiliated to the EC-Center Chronoi, providing a diachronic analysis of cultural models of Mittani cultures transmitted into the Middle Assyrian culture. In the short period of time, corresponding to the Late Bronze Age Mesopotamia (1500-1200 BCE), the analysis of material culture and settlement patterns of Northern Mesopotamia and Syria reveals thus the gradual development of a new political and cultural asset, taking place in different stages of the duration of the Middle Assyrian Empire based partly on the geographic development of the Assyrian administration.
Curriculum vitae
Since 2022
Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin.
02/2022 and 11/2021
Affiliated Researcher, French Mission in Larsa (Tell es-Senkereh) and Tell el 'Uwaili, Iraq, C.N.R.S. - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affairs Étrangères.
2020-2021
Scientific Consultant, "Reconstruction of the Mam Rashan Shrine, a Yazidi Shrine in South Sinjar, Iraq," World Monuments Fund (U.S.A.).
2018-2020
Research Fellow, White-Levy Grant for Archaeological Publications, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin.
2017-2018
Research Fellow, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies, Universitá degli Studi di Udine.
2014-2016
Research Assistant, "Archaeological Research at Tell Fekheriye (Syria)," Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin.
2014
Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin.
Selected Publications
2020. "Settling the land: settlements pattern and ceramics in the land behind Nineveh from the Middle Bronze Age to the establishment of the Middle Assyrian State." In Near Eastern Archaeology. Proceedings of Broadening Horizons 5 International Conference, edited by Costanza Coppini and Francesca Simi, 93-109. Trieste: EUT.
2018, co-author with Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Hasan A. Qasim, Katia Gavagnin, Elisa Girotto, Marco Iamoni and Cristina Tonghini. "The Italian-Kurdish Excavations at Gir-e Gomel in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Preliminary Report on the 2017 and 2018 field seasons." Mesopotamia 53, 67-162.
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