ARCIERO Roberto

Travaux en cours

• Responsable de l'étude des ressources en eau de la Mission archéologique française de Bactriane protohistorique (dir. Johanna Lhuillier) 
• Responsable du volet archéologie contemporaine du projet RESPIRE (Research Educational and Storytelling Project in Italian Remote Ecosystem) (dir. M. Capriotti)
• Co-Directeur de terrain du projet archéologique TAP - Togolok, Turkménistan (dir. Barbara Cerasetti).

Enseignement

2017-2021 -  Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Archaeology Leiden University (Netherlands).
World Archaeology Module - Prehistory of the Near East. 
World Archaeology Module - Classic and Mediterranean Archaeology 
World Archaeology Module - Archaeology of the Americas. 
Modern Era
Human Origin
Material Studies
Field Techniques
Past and Future

2020 - Chargé de cours,  Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
Cours “Designing Archaeological Research” (BA3 Cours).

Prix/Bourses

• National Geographic Meridian Grant – 150.000 $
  
Fonds pour le projet RESPIRE - Research Educational and Storytelling Project in Italian Remote Ecosystem Project
P.I.: Martina Capriotti (Université de Camerino). Co-demandeur : Roberto Arciero
Numéro de subvention : NGS-102425E-23
• 2018 – National Geographic Early Career Grant – 8.500 $

  Fonds pour le MWP - Murghab Water Project
P.I.: Roberto Arciero
Numéro de subvention : EC-219R-18.
• 2018 – Elise Mathilde Grant/LUF – 5.000 €

  Fonds pour l’analyse OSL dans le cadre du Murghab Water Project
P.I.: Roberto Arciero
Numéro de subvention : W18327‐6‐EM.
• 2017 – Asian Modernities and Traditions Grant (Université de Leiden) – 2.000 €

  Fonds pour le Murghab Water Project (projet de doctorat) 
P.I.: Roberto Arciero
• 2023 - Society for the Exploration of Eurasia Conference Grant –140 €
• 2022 -The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) Mobility Grants: - 370 €
• 2022 - European Archaeological Association (EAA) Grant for Session organizer -  450 €   
• 2018 - LUF - Leiden University Conference Grant – 360 €
• 2017 - European Archaeological Association (EAA) Grant for Session organizer – 250 €

Publications

Monographie (Peer-reviewed)

• Arciero, R. (2025). Irrigating the Desert. Water Management, Agricultural Practices, and Social Complexity in Southern Turkmenistan during the Bronze Age. Leiden University Press.

Articles et actes de colloques (Peer-reviewed)

• Arciero, R., Müller, D., Rouse, L., Cerasetti, B. (under-riview). Unveiling Bronze Age Murghab: Small-Scale Community Responses, Agricultural Practices and Water Management During Environmental Transitions. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
• Billings, T. N., Cerasetti, B., Forni, L., Arciero, R., Dal Martello, R., Carra, M., Rouse, L. M., Boivin, N., Spengler III, R. (2022). Agriculture in the Black Sands of the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok, Turkmenistan (2nd Millennium B.C.). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
• Cerasetti, B., Arciero, R., Carra, M., Curci, A., De Grossi Mazzorin, J., Forni, L., Luneau, E., Rouse, L. M., Spengler, R. N. (2019). Bronze and Iron Age Urbanisation in Turkmenistan. Preliminary results from the excavation of Togolok 1 on the Murghab alluvial fan. In Baumer, C., Novak, M. (éds), Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids: Learnings and conclusions from new archaeological investigations and discoveries. Proceedings of the First International Congress on Central Asian Archaeology, University of Bern, 4–6 February 2016. Bern: Harrassowitz Verlag, 63–72.
• Forni, L., Arciero, R. (2022). Identity and interaction at Togolok 1 in the Murghab region (Southern Turkmenistan) during the Bronze Age. In Coppini, C., Cyrus, G., Golestaneh, H. (éds), Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue. Sessions 4 and 6 from the conference Broadening Horizons 6 held at the Freie Universität Berlin, 24–28 June 2019, vol. 3. Oxford: Archaeopress, 25–40.
• Arciero, R. (2019). Irrigating the Desert: Approaches to Paleochannel Reconstruction in the Murghab (Turkmenistan) during the Bronze Age. In Alekshin, V. A., Kircho, L. B. (éds), Antiquities of East Europe, South Asia and South Siberia in the context of connections and interactions within the Eurasian cultural space (new data and concepts). Avtory statey Edition, 64–66.
• Arciero, R., Forni, L. (2018). La prima urbanizzazione in Turkmenistan: coesistenza tra nomadi e sedentari nel delta interno del fiume Murghab. Risultati preliminari delle indagini archeologiche ed etnografiche presso il sito di Togolok 1. In Ferrari, A., Pupulin, E., Ruffilli, M., Tomelleri, V. (éds), Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale – Ricerche 2017, no. 7. Venise: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.
• Arciero, R. (2015). Le Oasi del Karakum lungo la Via della Seta. Per una ricostruzione del Paesaggio attraverso lo studio du Remote Sensing in Archeologi in progress. In Brancato, R., Busacca, G., Massimino, M. (éds), Archeologi in progress. Il cantiere dell'archeologia di domani. BraDypUS Edition, 208–216.
• Cerasetti, B., Arciero, R., Forni, L., Rouse, L. M., Carra, M., Luneau, E., Spengler, R. N. (accepté). Interactions between sedentary and mobile peoples in the Bronze Age of southern Central Asia: Excavations at Togolok 1 in the Murghab region. In Boroffka, N., Pollock, S., Luneau, É., Teufer, M. (éds), Farmers, Traders and Herders: The Bronze Age in Central Asia and Khorasan (3rd–2nd Millennium BCE). Proceedings of the conference held in Berlin (November 30–December 1, 2015). Berlin: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung / Dietrich Reimer Verlag.

Chapitres en monographie (peer-reviewd)

• Forni, L., Arciero, R. (2022). Terracotta Anthropomorphic Figurine in Bronze Age Central Asia. New evidence from Togolok 1. In Mamedow, M. (éd), Antiquity of Turkmenistan, Scientific Research and Restoration of Monuments. Turkmen dowlet nesiryat gullugy, 129–154.

Articles et blogs

• Arciero, R. (2022). Water in the Desert? The Oxus Civilization and the role of the irrigation system. Leiden Archaeology Blog.
• Arciero, R. (2016). Nuove scoperte lungo la Via della Seta. Archeologia Viva, 178 (juillet–août), 46–56.