Michela Floriani

Michela Floriani received her BA from the Università degli Studi of Udine with the thesis “Minoanizing Frescoes in the Levant”; she then moved on to La Sapienza University of Rome, to deepen her study of Levantine archaeology and history, focusing in particular on the southern Levant. At La Sapienza, she had the opportunity in 2024 to join the Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and Its Environs, directed by Dr. S. Richard, Dr. M. D’Andrea, and Dr. J. Long. She became a field supervisor for an area on that project in 2025. She is most interested in investigating the human cultural processes that underlie the development of social complexity and the emergence of inequalities, analysing evidence of social tensions through the study of material culture, settlement organization, and the exploitation of the surrounding territory. Her MA thesis on the connection between the occupational modalities and the human community groups in Middle Bronze Age Transjordan fits within this research area.