Cooperations
The project will be carried out with a number of international partners:
- The Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici della Puglia (esp. dott.ssa Simonetta Bonomi, Foggia department and dott.ssa Marisa Corrente, Bari department) will support the project in terms of excavation permits and advice.
- The DNA-analyses will be carried out in co-operation with Prof. Christina Papageorgopoulou, Thessaloniki University and Prof. Joachim Burger, Mainz University
- The compulsory preliminary anthropological analysis of the skeletal material will be carried out by Dr Kristin von Heyking (AnthroArc)
- NAA analyses to clarify the origin of different pottery wares present at Ascoli Satriano will be financed by and carried out together with Prof. Richard Posamentir (and colleagues), Tübingen University
- The Archaeobiocenter of the LMU Munich will carry out the paleobotanical and archaeozoological analyses
- Dr Lucy Cramp (University of Bristol) will carry out the content analyses of the pottery