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Welcome! My name is Francesco Iacono. I am based at the University of Bologna where I teach Mediterranean Prehistory and archaeological theory /heritage studies. My broad research interests range from Mediterranean archaeology, cultural heritage (with a specific attention to notions of 'difficult heritage'), social theory (with a particular focus on Marxism and anthropology), approaches to material culture, history of archaeology in Europe and the complex relationship between this discipline, the past and politics.

I have been based for many years in the UK (at UCL first and then at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge). My doctoral research concluded at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL and for which I have been funded by the AHRC and by the British School at Athens, is an original study of interaction in the Late Bronze Age southern Adriatic, including both the Italian and Balkan side of the sea. This has by now been published in a number of articles (a monograph on the same is also in preparation). Together with Riccardo Guglielmino of the University of Salento I am finalising the publication of the pottery from the site of Roca in Apulia where the largest assemblage of Aegean type (Mycenaean) ceramics ever recovered west of Greece has been unearthed.

In these pages you will find some information about my research as well as various topics related to my interests.
Enjoy!