Dr. Marianna Fusco

Under review. Fusco M., Aureli C., Asrat S., Bocioaga C.M, Bucci Casari, F., Lucchini, F., Meyer M, Urban P., Mologni, C., Gallinaro M, Talamo, S. Zerboni A, Spinapolice E.E. “The
Gotera site: first evidence of open-air human occupation dated to MIS3 in southern Ethiopia”.
Quaternary Science Review.

Under review: Fusco, M., Lucchini, F. and Spinapolice, E.E. “Re-thinking the Levallois method and its complexity in the African Middle Stone Age”. Journal of Archaeological Methods and Theory.

2025. Asrat, S., Lucchini, F., Tafuri, M.A., Aureli, C., Gallinaro, M., Zerboni, A., Fusco, M. and Spinapolice, E.E. “A strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isoscape of Southern Ethiopia: implications for
hominin land use and faunal mobility patterns”. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, section Archaeological Isotope

2024. Fusco, M., Habte, B., Leplongeon, A., Ménard, C., Manica, A., Spinapolice, E.E. and Leonardi, M. “The environmental context of the Middle-to-Late Stone Age Transition in eastern Africa: seasonality as a key factor”. PCI Peer Community in Archaeology
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.09.627606

2024. Fusco, M., Asrat, S., Aureli, C., Zerboni, A., Lemorini, C., Gallinaro, M., Spinapolice, E.E. “The Gotera archaeological mission in southern Ethiopia: ongoing research in the Middle
Stone Age site of Gotera (Oromia, Borana zone)”. Annales d’Éthiopie, vol 35: 21-37.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3406/ethio.2024.1732

2022. Spinapolice, E.E., Zerboni, A., Meyer, M., Slon, V., Talamo, S., Garcia, J.M., Lugli, F., Fusco, M., Maiorano, M.P., Marciani, G., Mariani, G.S., Silvestrini, S., Tassoni, L., Romandini,
M., Fiorini, A., Curci, A., Benazzi, S. “Back to Uluzzo. Archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and chronological context of the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic sequence at Uluzzo C (Apulia,
Southern Italy)”. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(2): 217–234 
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3349

2021. Fusco, M., Carletti, E., Gallinaro, M., Zerboni, A., Spinapolice, E.E. “Raw material exploitation and lithic variability at the MSA site of Gotera, southern Ethiopia: technological and
quantitative approaches combined”. Journal of Lithic Studies (8): 1-29. 
doi: https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.6530

1. Sapiens and Neanderthals: Similar Technical Behaviors in Africa and Europe? Coordinator: Dr. Marianna Fusco. In collaboration with CEPAM (Cultures – Environnements, Préhistoire,
Antiquité, Moyen Âge), Nice, France. Funded by the Human Origins Cluster of Excellence, University of Tübingen (Young Investigator Grant).

2. “Exploring the Omani Rub al’Khali” Sultanate of Oman. Dohfar, Oman. expert of Pleistocene lithic evidence. Coordinator Dr. Maria Pia Maiorano, Czech Academy of sciences.

3. “Lebanese-Italian Archaeological Project in the region of Tyre”, lithic technology specialist. Coordinators: Prof. Marta D’Andrea (Sapienza University of Rome), Prof. May Haider
(Lebanese University), Dr. Ali Badawi (Directorate-General of Antiquities).

4. Co-director of the Gotera Archaeological Mission, southern Ethiopia, lithic specialist and Field director. Director Prof. Enza Spinapolice (Sapienza University of Rome).

5. “Arte rupestre e paesaggio in Tanzania centrale”. lithic technology specialist. Coordinators: Prof. Marina Gallinaro (Sapienza University of Rome), Dr. Makarius Itambu (University of Dar es-Salaam).

6. “Arte rupestre nella Borana Zone (Oromia, Etiopia meridionale): ricerca, conservazione e sviluppo sostenibile”. member, field responsible and lithic technology specialist. Coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Marina Gallinaro (Sapienza University of Rome), Dr. Tadele Solomon (Ethiopian Heritage Authority).

Fusco, M. 2025. Archaeology and Human evolution: digging up our species origins. DigIt Archaeology Day, Departments of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Classics, Art
History, History, and Anthropology, Emory University, United States.

Fusco, M, Bicalho, C.M.M., Katyiar, S. and Stout, D. 2025. Preliminary analysis of a lithic assemblage produced by trained chimpanzees. NSF NCS-FO funded workshop organised by
Hecht, E. “Foundations of learning: individual variation, plasticity and evolution”. Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. 21/05/2025.

Fusco, M. 2025. A comparative analysis to investigate the Middle Stone Age – Late Stone Age transition in the Horn of Africa. BioSem Talks organized by Dr. Macela Bénitez, Department of Anthropology, Emory University. 11th February 2025.

Fusco, M. 2024. Decoding changes: technological and statistical analysis of the MSA-LSA transition in the Horn of Africa. IPHES-CERCA, Tarragona, Thursday Talks. 26th September
2024.

Fusco, M., 2019. La Middle Stone Age dell’Africa orientale. Approccio tecnologico e metodi statistici. Workshop organized in the frame of the Prehistory and Protohistory class held by Prof. Giulio Lucarini at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, in collaboration with prof. Marco Pacciarelli (University of Naples “Federico II”).

Reviewer for PlosOne, Quaternary Environments and Humans, Journal of Archaeological Science, Open Quaternary, Journal of African Archaeology, Quaternary Science Advances

Reviewer for the Leakey Foundation Research Grant Associate Editor at Ex Novo – Journal of Archaeology

1. Society of American Archaeologists (SAA)

2. PanAfrican Archaeological Association (PANAF)

3. European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

4. British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)

5. Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP)

6. Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA)

2026: Lecturer, Summer Semester, Seminar “The MSA of Eastern Africa”, University of Tübingen

2021-2024: Teaching assistant, Lithic Technology, Sapienza University of Rome. Main Prof. E. Spinapolice

2025: Ph.D. reviewer and committee member, Irene Solano-Megìas (Technological behaviors in East Africa during the Middle Stone Age: The regions of Gona and Northern Tanzania).

University of Burgos.

2024 – 2026: co-supervision of a Master student, Giusy Di Domenico (Technological analysis of Middle Stone Age assemblages from North Africa. A reassessment of museum collections). Department of Ancient World Studies Sapienza University of Rome

2024-2025: co-supervision of a Master student, Francesco Lucchini. (Spatial analyses in Pleistocene archaeological contexts: an intra-site approach to the GOT-10 site, southern Ethiopia). Department of Ancient World Studies Sapienza University of Rome

2023 –2025: co-supervision of a Bachelor student, Caterina Fanucchi. (Technological analysis of lithic assemblages from Mousterian sites in southern Italy). Department of Ancient World Studies Sapienza University of Rome2022 – 2024: co-supervision of a Master student, Andualem Girma. (Techno-typological analysis of Middle Stone Age assemblages from Gotera, southern Ethiopia). Department of Archaeology Addis Ababa University