{"id":16439,"date":"2021-05-05T11:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/?page_id=16439"},"modified":"2021-05-05T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T16:14:55","slug":"16439-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/archaeology\/16439-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The members of the Department of Archaeology mourn the death of Professor Rodolfo Fattovich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Rodolfo Fattovich (Trieste 1945 \u2013 Rome 2018) worked closely with Professor Kathryn Bard for 25 years. He regularly visited the Department of Archaeology at Boston University for\u00a0a month or more every year to work\u00a0with colleagues. He held a Visiting Professorship in the Archaeology Department and was a frequent lecturer in BU\u2019s African Studies Center.<\/p>\n

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The members of the Department of Archaeology mourn the death of Professor Rodolfo Fattovich in Rome on March 23, 2018.<\/p>\n

Rodolfo began excavating in Ethiopia in 1972, and he later directed excavations at Bieta Giyorgis (Aksum) with Kathryn Bard. He had extensive fieldwork experience in Egypt, where he directed projects at the sites of Naqada, Tell el-Farkha, and Mersa\/Wadi Gawasis (with Kathryn Bard). In Sudan, he was the long-term director of a project in the Kassala region.<\/p>\n

Before retiring in 2014, Rodolfo was teaching Ethiopian Archaeology,Egyptian Archaeology and also Egyptology at the Universit\u00e0 degli studi di Napoli \u201cL\u2019Orientale,\u201dwhere he became a faculty member in 1974. For many years he was also a visiting professor of Archaeology at Addis Ababa University.<\/p>\n

His research interests focused on the origins of social hierarchy in northeastern Africa, the Egyptian Predynastic, pre-Aksumite and Aksumite cultures, the relations between Egypt and Africa, but also on the ancient Red Sea, the environmental history of northeastern Africa, and on the contribution archaeology could provide to the sustainable development of those regions. The breadth and variety of his interests makes evident the intellectual curiosity and the open-minded approach which were his characterizing traits.<\/p>\n

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2011 University Lecture : “The Wonderful Things of Punt: Excavations at a Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea” given by CAS Archaeology Prof. Kathryn Bard. Prof. Kathryn Bard meets with guests before and after the lecture.
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He has published more than two hundred publications, some of them certainly seminal works. His new book, \u201cSeafaring Expeditions to Punt in the Middle Kingdom: Excavations at Mersa\/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt,\u201d co-authored with Kathryn Bard, will be published by Brill (Leiden & Boston) later this year. Rodolfo also mentored many students who, after starting their education under his tutorship, often specialized in several different fields, such as geoarchaeology, paleobotany, maritime archaeology, computer applications to archaeology, as well as, of course, Ethiopian and Egyptian archaeology, Egyptology and Nubian studies.<\/p>\n

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The 2011 excavation team in Egypt with Prof. Kathryn Bard (front row second from left), Prof. Rodolfo Fattowich standing (fifth from the left), and MA student Howard Wellman in the very back.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

The students, staff, and faculty of the Department of Archaeology at Boston University will sorely miss Rodolfo\u2019s annual visits to the department, when he would share his warmth, humor, collegiality, and scholarship with us. We will never forget Rodolfo and his passion for archaeology. We are proud to have had Rodolfo as a colleague at Boston University and will always cherish our loving memories of this great man.<\/p>\n

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Symposium Program held in memory of Rodolfo, September 25, 2018 in Italy<\/a>(click here for the program).<\/p>\n

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