Results and publications

Since 2016, various aspects of the findings from Ascoli Satriano (old and new excavations, with a particular focus on the Giarnera Piccola) have been analysed and presented in numerous publications.

As excavation reports for individual or multiple campaigns:

As detailed studies on individual aspects:

Graves and social structure:

  • Ch. Heitz - K. Riehle - T. Robinson, Putting together the pieces - The creation of a grave assemblage in late fourth century BCE Apulia. A discussion of pottery provenience models integrating chemical and stylistic analyses, Römische Mitteilungen (submitted)

  • Ch. Heitz, Houses for the dead and the living. New considerations on small buildings in the Giarnera Piccola/Ascoli Satriano (Prov. Foggia), in: R. Di Cesare - G. Sarcone (eds.), Atti del Convegno "L'arte dei Dauni, X-III sec. a.C. - Nuove prospettive per un'archeologia della cultura visiva", Foggia 2-3 dicembre 2022 (in press)

  • Ch. Heitz, War and wealth - The long 4th century BCE in southeastern Italy as an age of internationalisation, prosperity and convergence, in: Ch. Heitz - M. Hoernes - A. Henning - T. Robinson (eds.), Tracing the Transformation of Southern Italy in The Long Fourth Century BCE (London 2026, in press)

  • Ch. Heitz, Locality without colonial presence? Foreign goods, traditionalism and Archaic elites in Northern Apulia, in: E. Kistler - Ch. Heitz - B. Öhlinger - P. van Dommelen (eds.), Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean (Cambridge 2026, in press)

  • M. Hoernes - Ch. Heitz, Staging senses: the Catarinella Askos and elite politics in Hellenistic-Republican Canosa, Journal of Roman Archaeology (2026), doi:10.1017/S1047759426100658

  • Ch. Heitz - C. Leclerc, Casa, capanna o custodia? Una considerazione sui piccoli edifici ad Ascoli Satriano/Giarnera Piccola, in: A. Gravina (ed.), Atti del 43° Convegno Nazionale Società di Storia Patria per la Puglia. Preistoria, Protostoria e storia della Daunia (San Severo 2023) 201-220

  • M. Hoernes -M. Laimer - Ch. Heitz, Being to become? Childhoods, life courses and relational identities in pre-Roman northern Apulia and Basilicata, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64, 2021, 101355
  • M. Hoernes - Ch. Heitz -M. Laimer, Revisiting the Dead: Tomb Reuse and Post-Burial Practices at Ascoli Satriano (Pre-Roman Apulia, Seventh-Fourth Century BC), Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29/2, 2019, 261-285 (DOI: 10.1017/S0959774318000537)
  • Ch. Heitz - M. Hoernes - M. Laimer, Il sepolcro condiviso: indagini sulle sepolture multiple e le tombe riutilizzate ad Ascoli Satriano/Giarnera Piccola, Atti del 38esimo Convegno Nazionale sulla Preistoria - Protostoria - Storia della Daunia, San Severo 18-19 November 2017 (San Severo 2018) 319-340

Pottery:

  • Ch. Heitz - H. Groß - S. Mangelsen - W. Engler - P. Tropper - U. Töchterle - L. Kienle, No cold case? Hot evidence for the production of matt-painted pottery from Ascoli Satriano, in: C. Vita (ed.), La Céramique Matt-Painted de l'Italie méridionale entre productions, contextes et iconographies. Nouvelles données et perspectives (Napoli, Centre Jean Bérard) (in press)

  • B. Borgers - Ch. Heitz - M. Hoernes - U. Töchterle, In Small Things Remembered: Pinch Pots and Subadult Agency in Pre-Roman Northern Apulia, Journal of Social Archaeology; https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053251390563

  • K. Riehle - E. Kistler - B. Öhlinger - Ch. Heitz - D. Ben-Shlomo - R. Jung - H. Mommsen - J. H. Sterba - S. Gimatzidis - A. Fantalkin - S. Prillwitz - A. Hein - L. Geissler - G. Lehmann - J. K. Jacobsen - R. Posamentir - U. Schlotzhauer, Neutron Activation Analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology: Current Applications and Future Perspectives, Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 25, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01728-1

  • K. Riehle - E. Kistler - Ch. Heitz - B. Öhlinger - H. Mommsen, Local Potter's reactions. Three case studies from southern Italy and Sicily, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 39, 2021, 103182
  • K. Riehle - Ch. Heitz - H. Mommsen , Produzione ceramica nella Ascoli Satriano preromana (FG) - un approccio archeometrico, in: A. Gravina (ed.), Atti del 42° Convegno Nazionale Società di Storia Patria per la Puglia. Preistoria, Protostoria e storia della Daunia (San Severo 2022) 185-198

Metal and textiles:

  • M. de Sio - Ch. Heitz, Textile activity at Ascoli Satriano (Foggia, Italy): analysis of two potential pre-roman production contexts on the Colle Serpente, 9th Purpureae Vestes International Symposium - Lisbon, 22-24/10/2025 (poster)

  • H. Gratl - U. Töchterle - Ch. Heitz, Weft-faced wonders: Experimental insights into the craft of Daunian spinners; 9th Purpureae Vestes International Symposium - Lisbon, 22-24/10/2025 (Poster)

  • K. Tinkhauser - U. Töchterle - Ch. Heitz, Studi sul cinturone della tomba 01/08 di Ascoli Satriano e l'attribuzione del gancio a palmette al tipo 1B, in: A. Gravina (ed.), Atti del 40° Convegno Nazionale sulla Preistoria, Protostoria e storia della Daunia, San Severo 15-17 Novembre 2019 (San Severo 2020) 241-255
  • U. Töchterle - Ch. Heitz, Textile and organic residues on Pre-Roman bronze belts (cinturoni) at Ascoli Satriano (prov. Foggia/Italy). In: M. Bustamante-Álvarez, E. H. Sánchez López, J. Jiménez Ávila (eds.), Redefining ancient textile handcraft structures, tools and production process. Purpureae Vestes VII: Redefining Textile Handcraft. Structures, Tools, and Production Processes. Granada/Spain 2-4 October 2019 (Granada 2020) 211-218

Lectures

  • Vienna

  • Naples

  • Foggia

  • London

  • San Severo
  • Galway
  • Rome
  • Innsbruck
  • Tuebingen
  • Berlin
  • Auckland
  • Fribourg
  • Lecce

Conferences

"La Daunia Ascolana. Una giornata di studi sulla Daunia antica alla memoria di Astrid Larcher". Austrian Historical Institute Rome, 24 January 2025

Student theses

Master's degree:

  • Alexandra Ender, Pebble mosaics in Ascoli Satriano and beyond (working title; in progress)

Bachelor's degree:

  • Alexandra Ender, Beyond the Veil. Contextual Study of a Red-Figure Fragment from Ascoli Satriano (2023)
  • Carole Leclerc, Ein Terrakottadach in Ascoli Satriano/Giarnera Piccola (2023)
  • Katja Tinkhauser, Die bronzenen Gürtelbleche (cinturoni) des nordapulischen Gebietes mit Berücksichtigung der Fundstücke aus Ascoli Satriano (2018/19)
  • Jasmin Dörrer, Die Schwarzfirnis- und sovra-dipinta-Ware aus Ascoli Satriano (2018/19)
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