German Archaeological Institute

Post-Doc Visiting Fellow, Berlin Head Office

Thesis Title: Cartago: morfología urbana y gestión de los usos del suelo (ss. VIII-II a.C.)

About

I have studied History and Archaeology at the University of Valencia and at the University of Bologna. I received my Ph.D. with a dissertation on Carthaginian urban morphology and soil uses management (8th - 2nd centuries BC) at the Spanish School for History and Archaeology at Rome (Spanish Research Council-CSIC) and in the Royal Spanish Academy at Rome during 2005-2009.

Since May 2011 I have a posdoctoral research exchange position at the framework of the Excellence Cluster Topoi at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin Head Office, through the Program of Postdoctoral Mobility sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Spain and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology.

I am focused now on a wider examination of cultural transformations of ancient societies in the South of Pre-Roman Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. I am currently examining the constitution of power discourses and the symbolic arrangement of landscapes, and its influence on production and reproduction of collectives identities within Phoenician, Punic, Mauritanian and Iberian ancient societies. Important attention is also paid to the rol played by Mediterranean Archaeology and Ancient History in the construction of modern discourses on superiority and inequality both in the past and in the present.

http://www.topoi.org/person/fumado-ortega-ivan/