REASEARCH INTERESTS
Archaeology of Magna Graecia and Sicily
Greek Coroplastic; Production and distribution of clay figurines
Archaeometry and study of the pottery fabrics

RESEARCHES AND STUDIES
Pottery and Terracottas:
SICILY: Agrigento, Catania, Francavilla di Sicilia (Messina), Himera (Palermo), Mazzarrone (Catania), Monte Turcisi (Catania), Selinunte (Trapani).
 CRETE: Gortis

EDUCATION
2017/2018- In progress: PhD Student in Sciences of the cultural heritage and production, University of Catania, Department of Humanities.
PhD Project: The votive deposit of "Piazza San Francesco" in Catania: production, context and diffusion. The clay figurines in the eastern Sicily from the Protoclassical to the Late Classical period.
2017/2018 (frozen): Admission to the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici di Catania, University of Catania, Department of Humanities.
24/11/2016: Double Master degree cum laude in Archaeology; Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche (Catania, Italy)/Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Archeologii (Warsaw, Poland).
M.A. Thesis: Francavilla di Sicilia (ME. The votive terracotta figurines of the first phase of the demetriac Sanctuary (6th-Beginning of the 5th c. BC).
14/03/2014: Bachelor’s degree cum laude in Cultural Heritages; Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche (Catania, Italy); Thesis: Updating of the Attic Vases’s Trade in the Gulf Lion and in the inside area from 475 to 400 BC.

WORK EXPERIENCES
2018-In progress: Member of the staff at the Ceramic Lab at the University of Vienna, for the project: Trade of western Greek amphorae (6th-5th century BC) from the perspective of Himera (western Sicily): a contribution to the identification of production centres, typological repertoires and distribution patterns, directed by Babette Bechtold.
2018: Pottery and Terracottas Expert and Archaeological Excavation activities for the Archaeological Italian Mission in Gortis (Crete), of the University of Catania, the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the University of Rome "Unitelma Sapienza"
2017-2018: Lab and Storage co-supervisor for the Archaeological Mission in Selinunte (Trapani) of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2017: Greek Pottery Expert, Co-supervisor of the materials and the cataloging and Trench Supervisor for the 1st Archaeological Mission at the Monte Turcisi (Catania), of the DAI- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
2017: Supervisor of the Electronic Inventory at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki [AMTh] in Greece, on the occasion of the exhibition "Figurines. A microcosmos of clay" (3 April 2017- 30 April 2018).
2016: Part-time collaboration at the University Office of Specializzazioni Area Non Medica, of the University of Catania

OTHER EXPERIENCES (Fieldworks, Internships, Workshops)
2016: International Summer School in architectural drawing of the greek fortifications on Monte Turcisi (CT); Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in cooperation with the University of Berlin and the Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Catania.
2016: Lab, inventory and cataloguing activities and updating of the computer database of the materials from Temple R and Temple B in Selinunte (TP); Study Mission 2016 of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
2015: Internship at the Soprintendenza BB.CC. of Catania
2014-2015: Archaeological mission in Selinunte (TP); Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2013: Internship at the Soprintendenza BB.CC. of Ragusa
2013: Excavation mission in Chiliomodi, Tenea (Corinth); Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ephorate for Antique Shops and Private Archaelogical Collections;
2013: Excavation mission in Leontinoi (SR); University of Catania, Department of Humanities;
2012: Excavation of a grave (VI/VII c.) in Mazzarrone (CT); Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Catania
2012: Archaeological Mission in Ostia Antica; Department of Archaeology, University of Bologna; Mission’s Director
2012: I Excavation Mission in Valcorrente, Belpasso (CT); Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. of Catania and University of Catania, Department of Humanities;
2011-2012: XXII Archaeological Italian Mission in Nea Paphos (Cyprus); University of Catania;

CONFERENCES as Lecturer
03-06/09/2017: Flavio Ferlito, Massimo Frasca, Paolo Mazzoleni and Umberto Spigo, Preliminary mineralogical, petrographic and chemical investigations on archaic clay statuettes from the first phase of the greek sanctuary of Francavilla di Sicilia in Geosciences: a tool in a changing world" (Pisa 2017), Conference organized by the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrografia, Società Geologica Italiana, Associazione Italiana di Vulcanologia and Società Geochimica italiana.
28-30/06/2017: Flavio Ferlito, Le statuette votive della prima fase del Santuario di Francavilla di Sicilia (VI-Inizi V sec. a.C.): nota preliminare in Dialoghi sull’Archeologia della magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo, Conference organized by the Paestum Foundation (Paestum 2017).
13/12/2016: Flavio Ferlito, Indagini a Case Cassì di Mazzarrone in occasion of the presentation Day of the exhibition "Dopo l’Antico. Ricerche di Archeologia medievale", at the S. Francesco Borgia’s Church (Catania 2016).
1-2/12/2016: Flavio Ferlito, Paolo Mazzoleni, Archaeometrical Analysis on the votive statuettes of the 1st phase of the Demeter Sanctuary in Francavilla di Sicilia (Messina) in Perspectives of Classical Archaeology (PeCla), Conference (5th Edition- New Directions in Classical Archaeology), organized by the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University of Prague (Prague 2016).
Intervento:
22-25/10/2013: Maria Turco, Flavio Ferlito, Clorinda Arezzo, Agata Calabrese, Mercedes Turco and Sebastiano Lisi, Dal recupero di emergenza al dato scientifico: lo scavo della tomba alto-medievale di Mazzarrone(CT), International Conference of Studies, Ollus leto datus est. Architettura, topografia e rituali funerari nelle necropoli dell’Italia meridionale e della Sicilia fra antichità e medioevo (Reggio Calabria 2013)

 

PUBLICATIONS

2016 

  • Arezzo C., Calabrese A., Ferlito F., Lisi S., Turco M., Turco Me., Nuove riflessioni sulla tomba alto-medievale di Mazzarrone (CT) in Arcifa L., Maniscalco L. (a cura di), Dopo l’Antico. Ricerche di Archeologia Medievale, Catalogo della Mostra (Catania, dicembre 2016- Aprile 2017), 2016, pp. 47-52.

2018

  • Ferlito F., Le statuette della prima fase del Santuario di Francavilla di Sicilia (seconda metà del VI a.C.-inizi V sec. a.C.): risultati preliminari, in DialArchMed II.3, Atti del II Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Paestum 28-30 Giugno 2017), pp. 675-682.
  • Ferlito F., Le statuette fittili corinzie e di tipo corinzio dal Santuario greco di Francavilla di Sicilia (ME), in Atti e Memorie della Società Magna Grecia, vol. V.II (2017), pp. 71-84.