All Around Khirbet Al-Batrawy: Survey and Heritage Monitoring of a Threatened Early Bronze Age Landscape in Jordan
S. Thomas Parker Memorial Fund
La Sapienza University of Rome
Near Eastern Archaeology
Cecilia Ripamonti is an archaeologist specializing in pre-classical western Asia, with particular expertise in the Bronze Age southern Levant. She completed her PhD in archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome in January 2026, where her research investigated funerary practices, necropolises, and social dynamics in Middle Bronze Age Palestine through integrated typological, chronological, and spatial approaches (GIS). She has contributed to archaeological projects including Khirbet al-Batrawy (Jordan), where she currently serves as field director, as well as Tell es-Sultan/Jericho, Bethlehem, and Motya. Her research interests include stratigraphy, ceramic analysis, funerary rituals, and sacred architecture, alongside the application of scientific methods such as ancient DNA analysis.