Since 01/2021
Doctoral fellowship at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS), Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA)

09/20 – 12/20
German Archaeological Institute, Teheran Branch - digitalisation of the photo archive

since 05/2019
PhD student in Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin

2015 –2017
M.A. in Archaeology, University of Bologna

2012 – 2019
Excavations in Italy, Oman, Armenia and Turkey

2011 – 2014
B.A. in Science of Cultural Property, University of Milan

Landscape survey in cross-check. Comparing surface collections, excavation and geophysical data at Oymaağaç Höyük/Nerik (Turkey)

This research evaluates the potential and the reliability of the survey as a non-invasive strategy of investigation while examining different approaches to landscape archaeology. Starting from the case study of Oymaağaç Höyük (Turkey), the survey results will first be cross-checked through GIS on site level against the broad dataset from the long-term interdisciplinary research undertaken at the site. Furthermore, spatial analysis will be conducted on a landscape-related level, suggesting new interpretations about the archaeological landscape of the Central Black Sea Region from the Late Chalcolithic to the Iron Age.

2019
M.A. Valsecchi Gillmeister, Survey findings. In R. Czichon et al. 2019, Archäologische Forschungen am Oymaağaç Höyük/Nerik 2016-2018, Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 151, Berlin 2019, 84-89.

2018
Mielke, D.P. – M. Klein – M. Rummel – M. A. Valsecchi Gillmeister, Zwei außergewöhnliche Keramikschalen aus Nerik (Oymaağaç Höyük, Turkey). In Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 150, Berlin 2018, 19-43.