Brief CV

Matteo Bormetti is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher in the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) at the ICAC. Specialised in archaeozoology and the study of human-animal relationships in the past, his research focuses on animal husbandry systems, urban provisioning, ancient beekeeping and the exploitation of marine resources, with particular attention to cetaceans and molluscs, from the Late Prehistory to the historical period.

He completed his PhD on animal husbandry and socioeconomic change in the British Later Iron Age at the University of Sheffield in 2023. Since then, he has been teaching zooarchaeology at the University of Milan, where he is also part of PrEcLab (Laboratorio di Preistoria, Protostoria ed Ecologia Preistorica), has held a postdoctoral position at the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, and currently serves as Assistant Editor for the ICAZ Newsletter. He has led faunal research on the Meninx Archaeological Project in Tunisia and the Monte Zara excavation in Sardinia, alongside further field collaborations in Oman and Greece.

At the ICAC, he is developing the project Mapping responses to Roman imperialism in animal husbandry, under the supervision of Dr. Lídia Colominas and Dr. Arnau Garcia. The project will analyse the responses of different regions of the Roman Empire to processes of imperial integration through animal husbandry practices and zooarchaeological data.