Publications by Marta Luciani
List of Publications
All Publications by Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Marta Luciani
2025
Luciani, M. (Accepted/In press). Funerary Rituals on Qurayyah’s Painted Pottery. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 54.
Luciani, M. (Accepted/In press). Beyond beauty: Jewelry, Brands and the Creation of Identity in Arabia. Paléorient.
Luciani, M. (2025). The walled 'urban' oases phenomenon in Northwest Arabia – 4th to 2nd millennium BCE. Manuscript submitted for publication. In S. Terp Laursen, L. Weeks, & D. Kennet (Eds.), Bronze Age Arabia Brill.
2024
Luciani, M. (2024). The 3rd Millennium Evidence from the North Western Sulaymaniyah Survey (NWSS). A Preliminary Assessment. In B. Couturaud (Ed.), Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan (pp. 85-105). Presses de l'Ifpo, Beirut. https://www.ifporient.org/978-2-35159-795-8/
Luciani, M. (2024). Farther Horizons: The Late Bronze Age to Iron Age Transition beyond the Southern Levant. In M. G. MasettiRouault, I. Calini, R. Hawley, & L. d'Alfonso (Eds.), Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200–900 bce) Proceedings of the NYU-PSL International Colloquium, Paris Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, April 16–17, 2019 (pp. 553-588). New York University Press.
2023
Luciani, M. (2023). Transitions in Material Culture of the 2nd Millennium BCE: The Middle Bronze to Late Bronze Shift Seen from Northwest Arabia. In A. Hausleiter (Ed.), Material Worlds: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contacts and Exchange in the Ancient Near East. : Proceedings of the Workshop held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University 7th March 2016 (pp. 53-77). Archaeopress. https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803276489
Luciani, M. (2023). Archaeology in the Land of Midian: Excavating the Qurayyah Oasis. Biblical Archaeology Review, 49(4), 32-39.
Luciani, M. (2023, Jun 28). Qurayyah (al-): Thematic Dictionary of Ancient Arabia. https://ancientarabia.huma-num.fr/public/dictionary/definition/qurayya-al
Lüthgens, C., Luciani, M., Prochazka, S., Firla, G., Hoelzmann, P., & Abualhassan, A. (2023). Watering the desert: Oasis hydroarchaeology, geochronology and functionality in Northern Arabia. The Holocene: an interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change, 33(5), 562-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231157292
2022
Luciani, M. (2022). Review of H. Mönninghoff, Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitution by Hannah Mönninghoff. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 388, 246-248. https://doi.org/10.1086/721808
Luciani, M. (Accepted/In press). The 3rd Millennium Evidence from the North Western Sulaimaniyah Survey (NWSS). A Preliminary Assessment. In B. Couturaud , & J. Giraud (Eds.), Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan Presses de l'Ifpo, Beirut.
Luciani, M., & Asiri, R. (2022). Qurayyah 2017. Report on the Third Season of the Joint Saudi Arabian-Austrian Archaeological Project. ATLAL: The journal of Saudi Arabian archaeology, 31, 27-57. https://www.academia.edu/98086359/Luciani_Asiri_2022_Qurayyah_2017_Report_on_the_Third_Season_of_the_Joint_Saudi_Arabian_Austrian_Archaeological_Project
Luciani, M., Abualhassan, A., Zur, A., & Dietrich, L. (2022). Qurayyah 2018. Report on the Fourth Season of the Joint Saudi Arabian-Austrian Archaeological Project. ATLAL: The journal of Saudi Arabian archaeology, 19-60. https://www.academia.edu/98085643/Luciani_Abuahassan_2022_Qurayyah_2018_Report_on_the_Fourth_Season_of_the_Joint_Saudi_Arabian_Austrian_Archaeological_Project
2021
Luciani, M. (2021). Index. In M. Luciani (Ed.), The Archaeology of the Arabian Pensinsula 2. Connecting the Evidence: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna on April 25, 2016 (OREA ed., Vol. 19, pp. 237-243). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).
Luciani, M. (2021). Introduction. In M. Luciani (Ed.), The Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula 2: Connecting the Evidence: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna on April 25, 2016 (pp. 10-14). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).
Luciani, M. (2021). On the Formation of 'Urban' Oases in Arabia: New Perspectives from the North-West. In M. Luciani (Ed.), The Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula 2. Connecting the Evidence: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna on April 25, 2016 (pp. 89-118). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).
Luciani, M. (Ed.) (2021). The Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula 2: Connecting the Evidence. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna on April 25, 2016. . Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). OREA: Oriental and European Archaeology Vol. 21 https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86304
Luciani, M. (2021). On women made of clay. Enquiries on the meaning of an Ancient Near Eastern non‐ elite (?) production. Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (ZOrA), 13, 214-231. Article 4.
Luciani, M. (2021). Canons of Iconography: Water, Animals, Gods and Humans. In C. Bührig, M. van Ess, I. Gerlach, A. Hausleiter, & B. Müller-Neuhof (Eds.), Klänge der Archäologie. Festschrift for R. Eichmann (pp. 277-288). Harrassowitz.
Luciani, M. (2021). Levantine Monochrome Painted Ware. Manuscript submitted for publication. In Tell el Daba XXVIII. From the Hyksos Period to Horemheb. The Pottery from Area H/VI. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).