Nicola Terrenato (born October 22, 1963) is an Italian scholar of ancient

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

. Terrenato was born in

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. A Classical archaeologist teaching in th
Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
(IPCAA) at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

in Ann Arbor Michigan, United States, Terrenato's expertise includes the Romanization of Italy and the archaeology of

Etruria Etruria ( ) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria. It was inhabited by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that f ...

. He is the Director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. He has excavated at Rome (Palatine Hill and Auditorium site), at Volterra and in the Cecina Valley, and in Basilicata. Terrenato is the director of the Cecina Valley Survey in Northern

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

. Since 2007, Terrenato has been director of th
Gabii Project
at the site of the ancient city of

Gabii Gabii was an ancient city of Latium, located due east of Rome along the Via Praenestina, which was in early times known as the ''Via Gabina''. It was on the south-eastern perimeter of an extinct volcanic crater lake, approximately circular i ...

, approximately east of Rome. His team completed two seasons of geophysical and topographical survey at the site (2007 and 2008), and began major excavations in June 2009. Excavations are ongoing and will continue in 2023. The Gabii Project has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as multiple other organizations for its continued research.

Selected works

* F. Cambi and N. Terrenato. 1994. ''Introduzione all'archeologia dei paesaggi''. Rome: Nuova Italia Scientifica. * M. Munzi and N. Terrenato. ed. 2000. ''Volterra. Il teatro e le terme''. Florence: Insegna del Giglio. * E. Regoli and N. Terrenato. ed. 2000. ''Guida al Museo Archeologico di Rosignano Marittimo. Paesaggi e insediamenti in Val di Cecina''. Siena: Nuova Immagine. * N. Terrenato. ed. 2000. ''Archeologia Teorica''. Florence: Insegna del Giglio. * S. Keay and N. Terrenato. ed. 2001. ''Italy and the West. Comparative issues in Romanization''. Oxford: Oxbow. * P. Van Dommelen and N. Terrenato. ed. 2007. ''Articulating local cultures: Power and identity under the expanding Roman Republic''. Portsmouth: JRA. * N. Terrenato and D.C. Haggis. ed. 2011.
State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm
'' Oxbow. () * J. A. Becker and N. Terrenato. ed.
Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology
'' (University of Michigan Press, 2011). () * R. Opitz, M. Mogetta, and N. Terrenato, ed.
''A Mid-Republican House from Gabii''.
(University of Michigan Press, 2016). () *N. Terrenato
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
(Cambridge University Press, 2019). Winner of the 202
Wiseman Book Award

References

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