Pronouns: he/him/his
I received my Diploma at the Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia – Matera (Italy) in Classical Archaeology (Ph. D. equivalent), and I am currently a Ph. D. candidate in the Classical Archaeology program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion. My main interest is the study of ceramics, with a particular focus on the Protohistoric and Archaic periods in central-southern Italy. I have done fieldwork at Rome (Sant’Omobono; Regia; Forum of Caesar), Gabii, Pompeii (Temple of Venus), Francavilla Marittima, and many other locations. I have published on various aspects of the pottery assemblages recovered from these sites.
My dissertation’s title is: “Pottery Production and Social Complexity in Archaic Rome and Latium”. My research aims to analyze the development of socio-economic complexity in Rome and Latium between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE through the lens of pottery production, using both traditional archaeological methods and archaeometry.
L. Banducci, M. D’Acri (eds.), Gabii through its artifacts, under review, Archaeopress.
M. D’Acri, Notes on the Opaque Red Ware at Gabii, in L. Banducci, M. D’Acri (eds.), Gabii through its artifacts, under review, Archaeopress.
M. D’Acri, C. Colelli, J. Kindberg Jacobsen, “Le ceramiche d’impasto”, in J. Kindberg Jacobsen (ed.), Foro di Cesare, II: I materiali ceramici dallo scavo del 1998–2000, Rome Studies:Studies in the Archaeology, History and Literature of Rome, forthcoming, Turnhout: Brepols.
M. D’Acri, “Using Object Biography to Highlight Aspects of Archaic Trades: The Case of the Terracotta Imitations of the Geneleos Group”, in Scienze dell’Antichità, 28.2, 2022, 445-453.
M. Mogetta, I. Battiloro, I. Varriale, D.P. Diffendale, G. Iacomelli, M. D’Acri, C. Corbino, C. Comegna, G. Pardini, “Archaeological Research at the Sanctuary of Venus in Pompeii: Interim Report of the 2018-2019 Seasons of the Venus Pompeiana Project”, in FOLD&R (Fasti On Line Documenti & Ricerche) 535, 2022, 1-41 (ISSN 1828-3179).
J.T. Samuels, S. Cohen, T. Johnson, V. Moses, M. Naglak, R. Opitz, L. Banducci, M. D’Acri, L. Motta, A. Rittershaus, E. Stewart, “Reimagining urban success: rhythms of activity at Gabii, 800 BC–AD 600”, in Antiquity 385, v. 96, 103-122. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2021.154
J.T. Samuels, M. Naglak, R. Opitz, J.M. Evans, A.C. Johnston, P. Wright, A. Creola, J. Prosser, A. Zapelloni-Pavia, J. Farr, M. Harder, L. Banducci, M. D’Acri, D. Tuttle, S. Ion, C. Cha, S. Ness, K. Beydler, S. Cohen, V. Moses, L. Motta, M. Mogetta, A. Gallone, “A Changing Cityscape in Central Italy: The Gabii Project Excavations, 2012-2018”, in Journal of Field Archaeology, 46:3, 2021, 132-152. DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2021.1877958
M. D’Acri, L. De Luca, “Una pietanza per le divinità nel Lazio arcaico? Il caso delle focacce votive in terracotta”, in I. Baglioni, E. Santilli, A. Turchetti (eds.), Il cibo e il sacro. Tradizioni e simbologie. Religio. Collana di Studi del Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni”, 2020, 145-154 (ISBN: 978-88-5491-080-5).
M. D’Acri, M. Mogetta, “Chapter 6. The regional setting: non-adult burials from contemporary settlements in Latium Vetus”, in M. Mogetta (ed.), Élite Burial Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii: the non-adult tombs from Area D of the Gabii Project excavations, JRA Suppl. 108, 2020, 125-140 (ISBN-13: 978-0-9994586-2-4), (ISSN 1063-4304 -for the supplementary series-).
M. Mogetta, A.C. Johnston, M.C. Naglak, M. D’Acri, “The Street System of Gabii: New Evidence on the Republican Phases”, in FOLD&R (Fasti On Line Documenti & Ricerche) 438, 2019, 1-33 (ISSN 1828-3179).
M. D’Acri, “New observations on the Sybaritide between 510 and 444 BC”, in Kleos, Amsterdam Bulletin of Ancient Studies and Archaeology, 2, 2019, 10-28 (ISSN 2468-1555).
M.J. Evans, M.C. Naglak, L. Motta, J.T. Samuels, M. D’Acri, “An Iron Age Settlement at Gabii: An Interim Report of the Gabii Project Excavations in Area D, 2012-2015”, in Etruscan and Italic Studies, 70, 4, 2019, 1-33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2018-0029
M. D’Acri, L. De Luca, M. Perri, G. Pizzitutti, C. Regoli, “Appendice 1. I reperti ceramici” in P. Brocato, N. Terrenato, M. Ceci (eds.), Ricerche nell’area dei templi di Fortuna e Mater Matuta II, Arcavacata di Rende 2018, 37-117 (ISBN: 88-98197-09-8).
M. D’Acri, “Contesto A” in P. Brocato, N. Terrenato (eds.), Nuovi studi sulla Regia di Roma, Cosenza 2016, 158-162 (ISBN: 978-88-6822-509-4).
M. D’Acri, L. De Luca “Il settore 4 della Regia: i reperti ceramici”, in P. Brocato, N. Terrenato (eds.), Nuovi studi sulla Regia di Roma, Cosenza 2016, 71-93 (ISBN: 978-88-6822-509-4).
M. D’Acri, “Note sulla stratigrafia e sui reperti del settore VII-IX”, in P. Brocato, M. Ceci, N. Terrenato (eds.), Ricerche nell'area dei templi di Fortuna e Mater Matuta (Roma), Arcavacata di Rende 2016, 121-139 (ISBN 978-88-981970-6-4).
P. Brocato, A.M. Ramieri, N. Terrenato, I. Cangemi, M. D’Acri, L. De Luca, M. Giovagnoli, G. Pizzitutti, C. Regoli, “La ripresa delle ricerche nell’area archeologica di S. Omobono a Roma”, in Mediterranea, IX, 2012, 9-56 (ISSN 1827-0506).