Professor Simon Stoddart

• Iron Age Europe
• Central Mediterranean (especially Italian archaeology)
• Complex society
• Island societies
• Landscape archaeology
• Mortuary ritual
• The bridging of archaeological and historical/textual evidence
• Computer visualisation and analysis of archaeological landscapes

Current Thematic Projects

• TiME : Transformation in the Mediterranean: 1200 - 500 BC
• The European Iron Age
• Interregional comparison of Iron Age transformations: from Mediterranean Etruria to Baltic Denmark

Current Field Projects

• Frontiers of Etruria including a conference in September 2013
• FRAGSUS emerging from the Gozo Project
• Science @ Tarquinia

1987: Ph.D. University of Cambridge, England.

1983: M.A. Anthropology. University of Michigan, U.S.A.

1980: B.A. Cambridge. Archaeology and Anthropology. 

Stoddart, S. 2020. Power and Place in Etruria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A., Redhouse, D, Barker, G., di Paola, G, Rasmussen, T., Samuels, T and Terrenato, N., Witcher, R. 2020. Patterns of Etruscan urbanism.  In Fulminante, F., Hanson, J.W., Ortman, S.G., Bettencourt, L.M.A. (eds) Where Do Cities Come From and Where Are They Going To? Modelling Past and Present Agglomerations to Understand Urban Ways of Life Frontiers. Digital Humanities (Digital Archaeology) 7:1. doi: 10.3389/fdigh.2020.00001

Stoddart, S. 2020. An Etruscan Urban agenda: the weaving together of traditions. Journal of Urban Archaeology 1, 88-121.

Malone, C., Stoddart, S., Trump, D., Bonanno, A, Gouder, T. and Pace, A. (eds.), 2009. Mortuary ritual in prehistoric Malta. The Brochtorff Circle excavations (1987-1994). Cambridge: McDonald Institute.

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
• Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.