Archaeologist Dr Annarita Doronzio, research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at Humboldt University in Berlin, was awarded the prestigious "Premio Athena Ilias - Donne di Magna Grecia" on 5 September. The prize, which was awarded in Policoro, Italy, honours women from the Basilicata region who have distinguished themselves at national and international level in science, culture, entrepreneurship, medicine and civic engagement.
Doronzio completed her Master's degree in Classical Archaeology and a specialisation diploma with distinction in Basilicata. In 2014, she completed her doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München and the Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale on the topic of "Athens in the 7th century BC: spaces and finds of the early polis". Her habilitation project is dedicated to ceramic production on the Cycladic islands in archaic times. Doronzio also organises summer schools on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, in which German and Greek students take part.
Her research focuses mainly on the topography and material culture of archaic Athens and the early Iron Age. A central, current project is the "Atlas of the Athenian Funerary Evidence (11th-7th B.C.)", which involves the complete cataloguing of all Iron Age tombs in Athens and their implementation in a GIS system. The researcher has extensive experience in the use of digital methods in archaeology, particularly in the documentation and management of archaeological data using GIS and databases.
Doronzio is also head of the Siris project. This international excavation and teaching project is a collaboration between the Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin and the Italian Ministry of Culture (Direzione Regionale Musei della Basilicata). It focuses on researching and enhancing the archaeological heritage of the Greek colony of Siris-Herakleia in Policoro. During excavations at the acropolis and in the Demeter sanctuary, important finds were unearthed, including a large votive deposit from the first half of the 6th century BC with numerous intact vessels and a unique terracotta statuette. The project, which is funded by the Humboldt-Universit?ts-Gesellschaft, the International Office of the HU and Erasmus+, not only aims to achieve scientific results, but also to become a reference point for cultural tourism by directly involving students and researchers and, through guided tours, the local community and visitors.
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