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xxxviiiof Mannheim, and in 2002 she continued this role in Heidelberg (she retired in 2010). She
worked for the LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae) and ThesCRA (Thesaurus Cultus
et Rituum Antiquorum) projects at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Heidelberg
Academy of Sciences and Humanities). She has been a Membro straniero of the Istituto Nazionale di
Studi Etruschi ed Italici since 1983 and has published numerous articles and books on Etruscan
mythology and religion, including the basic reference on Etruscan demonology, Todesdämonen und
Totengötter im vorhellenistischen Etrurien (Florence 1987) and numerous articles on Etruscan gods and
heroes in the LIMC.
Geoffrey Kron, educated at the University of Toronto, teaches Greek history at the University of
Victoria. His research focuses on Greco-Roman social and economic history, including: the ancient
economy and the Bücher-Meyer controversy; Greek democracy and the infl uence of political
and social democracy on the distribution of wealth and income and on economic development,
both ancient and modern; nutrition, social equality and public health in the ancient world, and
their consequences for life expectancy; and Greek and Roman agriculture, particularly animal
husbandry, aquaculture, and game farming.
Robert Leighton is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research
interests are primarily in the later prehistory of the central-western Mediterranean, from about
2000–500 bc, with a particular focus on Italy and Sicily. He has edited Early Societies in Sicily
(Accordia Research Centre, 1996) and is the author of Sicily before History (Cornell, 1999), Tarquinia,
an Etruscan City (Duckworth, 2004), Prehistoric Houses at Morgantina (Accordia Research Centre,
2012) and a monograph on the site of Pantalica (in preparation).
Fulvia Lo Schiavo is an archaeologist, associated researcher and former Research Director at
the Institute for Aegean and Near Eastern Studies (ICEVO) in the National Council of Research
(CNR, Rome) 1999–2005. She was Archaeological Superintendent in Tuscany (Florence) from
2006–2010, and in Sardinia (Sassari and Nuoro) from 1987–1999. She specializes in the study of
the Mediterranean Bronze Age, with special interest on Sardinian archaeology, and is engaged in
projects to set up a local museum for the Sardinian site of Sa Domu ’e Su Nuraxi Arrubiu; and in a
project to catalogue the Cypriot collections of the Florence Museo Archeologico. Her research and
publications range from ancient metallurgy and the archaeology of Sardinia to Etruscan archaeology
and metallurgy, including: Oxhide ingots in the central Mediterranean (F. Lo Schiavo, J. Muhly, R.
Maddin, A. Giumlia-Mair, eds, Biblioteca di Antichità Cipriote 8, ICEVO-CNR, Roma 2009);
Le Fibule dell’Italia meridionale e della Sicilia, dall’età del bronzo recente al VI secolo a.C. (Prähistorische
Bronzefunde, Abteilung XIV, Band 14, Stuttgart 2010); I complessi archeologici di Trestina e di
Fabbrecce nel Museo Archeologico di Firenze (A. Romualdi and F. Lo Schiavo, eds) Monumenti Antichi
dei Lincei, Serie Miscellanea vol. XII (LXVI Serie Generale, Rome 2009); Archeometallurgy in Sardinia
from the origins to the beginning of the Early Iron Age (F. Lo Schiavo, A. Giumlia-Mair, U. Sanna, R.
Valera, eds) Monographie Instrumentum (30, Montagnac 2005, ed. Monique Mergoil).
Daniele Federico Maras completed his studies at the University of Rome “La Sapienza,”
receiving a PhD in Archaeology (Etruscan Studies) in 2002, where he taught Etruscan and Italic
Epigraphy from 2006 to 2010. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Board of Teachers for
the PhD in Linguistic History of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Libera Università di Lingue
e Comunicazione IULM of Milan, and since 2012 he has been a member of the Società Italiana di
Storia delle Religioni. As well as writing articles and contributing to journals and edited volumes,
he is also author of Il dono votivo. Gli dei e il sacro nelle iscrizioni etrusche di culto (2009), and, with G.
Colonna, he wrote of the Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum, II.1.5, dedicated to Veii and the Faliscan
area (2006).