Academic education

11/2020 – on going
Specialization in Archaeological Heritage (Postgraduated School, University of Catania)

11/2020
Master’s Degree in Archaeology, University of Catania (110/110 cum laude)

04/2019
Bachelor’s Degree in Ancient Literature, University of Catania (110/110 cum laude)

07/2015
Double Degree High School in Liceo Classico “Gulli e Pennisi”-ESABAC

Work experience

12/2020 – 02/2021
Archaeological Surveillance in Leni, Salina (Italy)

2019 – 2021
Private lessons Italian, Ancient Greek, Latin

Excavations and Fieldworks

08/2021 – 09/2021
Fortification surveys in Albania

06/2021 – 07/2021
Excavation in Pompei (forum)

06/2021
Excavation in Agrigento (theatre)

09/2020
Excavation in Pompei (forum)

07/2020
Recording, sampling and hand-drawing of artifacts in Agrigento (Roman temple)

10/2019
Excavation in Rocchicella di Mineo (Catania, Sicily)

06/2019
Recording, sampling and hand-drawing of artifacts in Agrigento (Roman temple)

09/2018
Fortification surveys in Albania

06/2018 – 07/2018
Excavation in Agrigento (Greek theatre)

Professional experience

03/2021
Workshop in Practical Geography – Planning of strategies for territory and sustainable development

02/2021
Workshop: CHAIN Conference 2021 “Well-Being and Cultural Heritage“

01/2021
Laboratory of Urban Archaeology: methodologies and strategies for Risk Map

12/2020
Laboratory of Human Bioarchaeology. Study of human bones and paleopathologies

08/2020
Project: Varcheo, Augmented Reality for Archaeology. Start Cup Catania 2020

06/2020 – 07/2020
Laboraatory. Digital Archeo_Humanities. Online catalogation and digitalization of Libertini Collection. MAUC (Museum of Archaeology of the University of Catania)

06/2020 – 06/2020
Laboratory: Digital Archaeology. Informatic for Archaeology, catalogation, digitalization, use of PhpMyAdmin and Access

05/2020
Laboratory: Archaeology and Data Management. Informatic for Archaeology

12/2019
Restoration works for the Roman domus in the “Monastero dei Benedettini S. Nicolò l‘Arena“

24 – 26/09/2019
Training course on Health and Safety at work

07/2019
Laboratory: Tourist guide at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Syracuse (Sicily, Italy)

06/2019
Laboratory of Physical Anthropology and Osteology. FAPAB Research Center, Avola (Syracuse)

01/2018 – 03/2018
Internship Zelantea Library in Acireale and art gallery

01/2018
International workshop “Archeologia, quo vadis?“ IBAM-CNR

Sicilian Fortifications in context. The Architecture of Defence in a Regional view, between Agathocles’s Basileia (307 B.C.) and the Roman Province (210 B.C.)

2021
Francesca Spadaro, Per una proposta interpretativa delle fortificazioni ellenistiche di Eraclea Minoa, in Cronache di Archeologia, 40, 2021, pp. 257-279.