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Margarita Gleba - Honorary Associate Professor

Margarita Gleba

Honorary Title: Honorary Associate Professor 

Email: m.gleba@ucl.ac.uk 

IoA staff nominator’s name and email address:  

Corinna Riva c.riva@ucl.ac.uk

Profile

IoA involvement: 

Margarita has collaborated with Corinna Riva on a major volume on Mediterranean urbanisation in the first millennium BCE. She is also collaborating with Miljana Radivojevic on a project investigating pigments on Scythian organic material culture and co-supervising an MA on the subject. Margarita is also collaborating with Ruth Whitehouse on a project analysing Zagreb Mummy wrappings and re-dating the only extant Etruscan linen book. Since 2014, she has been contributing to teaching conservation students about archaeological textiles on module ARCL0106: Conservation Materials.

Publications

Selected recent publications:

  • Cutler J., Dimova B., Gleba M. 2020. Tools for textiles: textile production at the Etruscan settlement of Poggio Civitate, Murlo, in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Papers of the British School at Rome 2020: 1-30, DOI:10.1017/S006824622000001X 
  • Trentacoste A., Lightfoot E., Le Roux P., Buckley M., Esposito C., Gleba M. 2019. Heading for the hills? A multi-isotope study of sheep management in first millennium BC Italy, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 29, 102036, DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102036 
  • Marín-Aguilera B., Rodríguez-González E., Celestino S., Gleba M. 2019. Dressing the sacrifice: earliest evidence of wool fabrics in Iberia from Casas del Turuñuelo, Spain, Antiquity 93(370): 933–53, DOI:10.15184/aqy.2019.42  
  • Marín-Aguilera B., Iacono F., Gleba M. 2018. Colouring the Mediterranean: production and consumption of purple-dyed textiles in Pre-Roman times, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 31(2): 127–54, DOI:10.1558/jma.38080  
  • Gleba M., Harris S. 2018. The first plant fibre technology: identifying splicing in archaeological textiles, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(5): 2326–46, DOI:10.1007/s12520-018-0677-8