Davide Tanasi

Reassessment of the UCLA excavations 1983-1984 at the Melita Esplanade in Rabat (Malta) 

2024 Grant

The Maltese Archipelago at the dawn of history. Excavations at Bahrija (1909 and 1959) 

2017 Grant – PUBLISHED 2020. 

The late prehistory of Malta: Essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites

2012 Grant – PUBLISHED 2015.

Site, Artefacts, Landscape: Prehistoric Borg-in-Nadur, Malta

2010 Grant – PUBLISHED 2011.

Dr. Davide Tanasi joined the University of South Florida in 2016, where is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx). He is an archaeological scientist specialized in the archaeology of Sicily and Malta with a special interest in mobility and exchange in Mediterranean prehistory, archaeometry of ancient ceramics, biomolecular archaeology and remote sensing. A decade and a half of research on the Archaeology of the Maltese Archipelago has brought him to publish several articles on that subject and the monographs Site, artefacts, landscape: prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur (Polimetrica, 2011), The late prehistory of Malta: essays on Borġ in-Nadur and other sites (Archaeopress, 2015), The Maltese Archipelago at the dawn of history. Excavations at Bahrija (1909 and 1959) (Archaeopress, 2020), all generously sponsored by The Shelby White Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, and to edit the special issue At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Malta and the Central Mediterranean during the Roman Empire (Open Archaeology 7.1, De Gruyter Open Access, 2021).