Marcello Antonio MANNINO - B.Sc., Ph.D.

• Honorary Senior Research Fellow
  

Current Research:

• Becoming Insular? Human Responses to Past Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels

Research Interests:

• Human palaeoecology
• Archaeomalacology and shell midden archaeology
• Zooarchaeology
• Hunter-gatherers
• Prehistory of the Mediterranean

Previous Academic Appointments:

• 2002 - 2005: Leverhulme Trust-funded Research Fellow (Institute of Archaeology, University College London), working on the project “Ecology of prehistoric shellfish exploitation in the coastal zone of north-west Sicily”.

Publications:

Refereed Journals

• Mannino, M. A., Thomas, K. D., Leng, M. J., Piperno, M., Tusa, S. & Tagliacozzo, A. 2007. Marine resources in the Mesolithic and Neolithic at the Grotta dell’Uzzo (Sicily): evidence from isotope analyses of marine shells. Archaeometry 49, pp. 117-133.
• Mannino, M. A., Spiro, B. F. & Thomas, K. D. 2003. Sampling shells for seasonality: oxygen isotope analysis on shell carbonates of the inter-tidal gastropod Monodonta lineata (da Costa) from populations across its modern range and from a Mesolithic site in southern Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science 30, pp. 667-679.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. 2002. Depletion of a resource? The impact of prehistoric human foraging on intertidal communities and its significance for human settlement, mobility and dispersal. World Archaeology 33, pp. 452-474.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. 2001. Intensive Mesolithic exploitation of coastal resources? Evidence from a shell deposit on the Isle of Portland (Southern England) for the impact of human foraging on populations of inter-tidal rocky shore molluscs. Journal of Archaeological Science 28, pp. 1101-1114.

Other Publications

• Mannino, M. A. 2006. La malacofauna dal sito del Lago di Venere. In: Pantelleria Punica. Saggi critici sui dati archeologici e riflessioni storiche per una nuova generazione di ricerca, (eds E. Acquaro & B. Cerasetti), pp. 246-250. Bologna: Ante Quem.
• Mannino, M. A., Thomas, K. D., Piperno, M., Tusa, S. & Tagliacozzo, A. 2006. Fine-tuning the radiocarbon chronology of the Grotta dell’Uzzo (Trapani). Atti della Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia 15 (2004-05), pp. 17-31
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. 2004. Studio archeozoologico dei reperti faunistici dalla Grotta d’Oriente a Favignana (Trapani). Quaderni del Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas” 8, pp. 23-54.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. 2004. A site for all seasons? Investigating the ecology of prehistoric human subsistence and settlement in the coastal zone of north-west Sicily. Archaeology International 2003/2004, pp. 31-34.
• Thomas, K. D. & Mannino, M. A. 2003. Archeomalacologia della Sicilia Nord-Occidentale: un programma di ricerca per lo studio dell’ecologia e della sussistenza umana nella preistoria tramite l’analisi dei gusci di molluschi marini da siti archeologici. Quaderni del Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas” 7, pp. 45-58.
• Thomas, K. D. & Mannino, M. A. 2001. The Exploitation of invertebrates and invertebrate products, published in Handbook of Archaeological Sciences (eds D. R. Brothwell & A. M. Pollard), pp. 427-440. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Thomas, K. D. & Mannino, M. A. 1999. Mesolithic middens and molluscan ecology: a view from southern Britain. Archaeology International 1998/99, pp. 17-19.
• Thomas, K. D. & Mannino, M. A. 1999. The bioarchaeology of the Culverwell shell midden, published in Culverwell Mesolithic Habitation Site (ed. S. Palmer), pp. 94-114. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, British Series 287.

Publications in Press

• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. Determining the season of collection of inter-tidal gastropods from δ¹⁸O analyses of shell carbonates: modern analogue data and ‘internal analysis’ of data from archaeological shells. In: Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe (eds N. Milner, O.E. Craig & G.N. Bailey). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. Towards establishing a chronological framework for hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Sicily:  new radiocarbon dates on marine shells from prehistoric cave sites. Accordia Research Papers, in press.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. The tragedy of the shoreline? Social ecology of Mesolithic coastal subsistence, with reference to the site of Culverwell, Isle of Portland (southern England). To be published in MESO 2005: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe (eds S. McCartan & P. Woodman). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. Current research on prehistoric human coastal ecology: Late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer transitions in NW Sicily. To be published in MESO 2005: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe (eds S. McCartan & P. Woodman). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• Mannino, M. A. & Thomas, K. D. A research agenda for the archaeo-malacological study of prehistoric human ecology in the coastal zone of NW Sicily. Archaeofauna, in press.
• Mannino, M. A., Colella, V. & Thomas, K. D. Studio preliminare su collezioni dei siti paleolitici e mesolitici della Sicilia occidentale: nuove indagini e datazioni radiometriche. Quaderni del Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas” 9, in press.
• Mulazzani, S., Boussoffara, R., Aouadi, N., Azzarà, V., Belhouchet, L., Boujelben, A., Cavallari, A., Crema, E. R., Del Grande, C., Maini, E., Mannino, M. A., Mazzanti, C. & Scaruffi, S. Entre Sahara et Méditerranée. Le peuplement de Sebkhet Halk el Menjel (Tunisie orientale) pendant l’Holocène (campagnes 2002-2005). Africa 21, in press.
• Mulazzani, S., Boussoffara, R., Azzarà, V., Boujelben, A., Cavallari, A., Crema, E. R., Mannino, M. A., Del Grande, C., Mazzanti C. & Scaruffi S. Between the Sahara and the Mediterranean: a Study of the Middle Holocene Communities of the Sebkhet Halk al Menzel (Tunisia). The first three Campaigns 2002-2004. To be published in the proceedings of Symposium of Mediterranean Archaeology held in the University of Chieti in February 2005. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series.

Collaborations:

• Museo Archeologico Regionale “Antonino Salinas” in Palermo
• Soprintendenza dei Beni Culturali ed Ambientali della Provincia di Trapani
• Soprintendenza del Mare della Regione Siciliana
• Museo Geologico “Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro”, Department of Geology of the Università di Palermo
• Laboratory of Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeozoology at the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini” in Rome (Dr. Antonio Tagliacozzo)
• NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratories, British Geological Survey (Dr. Melanie J. Leng)
• Università di Bologna, on a project on Mesolithic and Neolithic coastal sites in central Tunisia

Educational Background:

• 2000: Ph.D. in Archaeology, University College London (United Kingdom).
  Thesis title: "Marine Molluscs and Human Palaeoecology: a case study of the intertidal gastropod Monodonta lineata (da Costa)"
• 1996: Bachelor of Science Degree in Archaeology (First Class Honours), University College London (United Kingdom)
• 1993: Diploma di Maturità Classica [Italian High School Certificate]

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