EDITED BOOKS

D. Nadali, A. Polcaro (a cura di), Archeologia della Mesopotamia antica, Carocci Editore, Roma 2015.

MONOGRAPHS

Polcaro, A., Necropoli e costumi funerari in Palestina dal Bronzo Antico I al Bronzo Antico III (=Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale XI), Rome 2006.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

D. Nadali, A. Polcaro, L. Verderame, New Inscriptions of Gudea from Tell Surghul / Nigin, Iraq, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 106 (1), 2016: 16–21.

Polcaro, A, The Bone Talisman and the Ideology of Ancestors in Old Syrian Ebla: tradition and innovation in the royal funerary ritual iconography, in Studia Eblaitica 1, 2015: 179-204.

Chiriu, D., Ricci, P.C., Carbonaro, C.M., Nadali, D., Polcaro, A., Mocci, F., Drying oil detected in mid-third Millennium B.C. Mesopotamian clay artifacts: Raman spectroscopy and DFT simulations study, in Microchemical Journal 124, 2015: 386-395.

Nadali, D., Polcaro, A., Il Rinascimento sumerico. Nuove scoperte archeologiche in Iraq Meridionale, in Forma Urbis, vol. XX, 2015: 18-26.

Nadali, D., Polcaro, A., Nigin. La città delle acque, in Archeologia Viva, vol. 173, 2015: 30-40.

Daniele Chiriu et al., 2014, Raman Study on Pompeii Potteries: The Role of Calcium Hydroxide on the Surface Treatment, in Journal of Spectroscopy, Vol. 2014, 2014: 1-10.

A. Polcaro, J. Muniz, V. Alvarez, S. Mogliazza, Dolmen 317 and Its Hidden Burial: An Early Bronze Age I Megalithic Tomb from Jebel al-Mutawwaq (Jordan), in Bullettin of American Schools of Oriental Research 372, 2014: 1-17.

A. Polcaro, J. Muniz, The Early Bronze Age I Site and Necropolis of Jebel al-Mutawwaq, Jordan, in The Ancient Near East Today, October 2014, Vol. II., No. 10.

Polcaro, A., Architettura templare e orientamenti astronomici: analisi della tipologia nord-siriana dell’”Antentempel” nel Periodo Protosiriano, in Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale XVI, in: S. Pizzimenti, L. Romano (eds.), Šime ummiānka Studi in onore di Paolo Matthiae in occasione del suo 75° compleanno offerti dall’ultima generazione di allievi, CMAO XVI, 2014, pp. 155-198.

Alvarez, V., Muniz, J, Polcaro, A., Preliminary results of the first Spanish-Italian excavation campaign to the Jabal al-Muṭawwaq dolmen field, August-September 2012, in Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 57 (2013): 409-424.

Muñiz Álvarez, J.R., Álvarez Martínez, V., Polcaro, A., Jebel al-Mutawwaq. La evolución del estudio de un yacimiento de la edad del bronce Antiguo I en la estepa jordana, in ISIMU (Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad) 16 (2013): 79-95.

J. A. Belmonte, A. C. Gonzalez-Garcia and A. Polcaro, On the Orientation of Megalithic Monuments of the Transjordan Plateau: New Clues for an Astronomical Interpretation, in Journal of the History of Astronomy 44 (2013): 429-455.

J. A. Belmonte, A. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, A. Polcaro, Light and Shadows over Petra: astronomy and landscape in Nabataean lands, in Nexus Network Journal 15 (2013): 487-501.

Polcaro, A. - Polcaro, V.F., Man and Sky: Problems and Methods of Archaeoastronomy, in Archeologia e Calcolatori, vol. 20, 2009: 223-245.

Nigro, L. - Sala, M. - Polcaro, A., Preliminary Report of the Third Season of Excavations by the University of Rome  “La Sapienza” at Khirbat al-Batrawi (Upper Wadi az-Zarqa), in Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 52 (2008): 209-230.

Polcaro, A. - Polcaro V.F., Early Bronze Age Dolmens in Jordan and their Orientations, in Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2006: 165-171.

Polcaro, A., Architettura Funeraria della necropoli di Bab edh-Dhra’ dal BA I al BA III. Funzione e significato dei cambiamenti architettonici delle tombe nell’ambito dello sviluppo urbano dell’insediamento, Contributi e Materiali di Archeologia Orientale X, Rome 2005: 209-267.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS

Polcaro A., L'Impero Accadico, in: D. Nadali, A. Polcaro (eds.), Archeologia della Mesopotamia antica, Carocci, Roma 2015: 153-189.

Polcaro, A., L’Impero neo-babilonese, in D. Nadali, A. Polcaro (eds.), Archeologia della Mesopotamia antica, Carocci, Roma 2015: 385-412.

Polcaro, A., Astronomy in the Levant During the Bronze and the Iron Age, in C.L.N. Ruggles (ed.), Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, Springer, Berlin, 2014: 1789-1801.

Polcaro, A., Fertilità e morte, il simulacro della dea degli inferi: significato simbolico del “Rilievo Burney”, in R. Dolce (ed.), Raccolta di studi in onore di Anton Moortgat, Palermo 2010: 291-309.

Nigro, L. - Polcaro, A., Stratigraphy of area B North, in L. Nigro (ed.), Khirbat al-Batrawy, an Early Bronze Age Fortified Town in North-Central Jordan. Preliminary Report of the Third and Second Seasons on Excavations (2006-2007) (= Rome La Sapienza Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan 06), Rome 2008: 66-76.

Polcaro, A., Funerary Architecture, Findings and Mortuary Practises in the EB I Jericho Necropolis, in L. Nigro (ed.), Byblos and Jericho in the Early Bronze I, Social Dynamics and Cultural Interactions, (= Rome La Sapienza Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan 04), Roma 2007: 95-108.

Polcaro A., Stratigraphy of Area B, in Khirbet al-Batrawy, An Early Bronze Age Fortified Town in North-Central Jordan, Preliminary Report of the First Season of Excavations (2005), in L. Nigro (ed.), Khirbet al-Batrawi II (= Rome La Sapienza Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan 03), Roma 2006: 155-166.

Polcaro, A., La Tomba A: stratigrafia, corredi e rituale funerario del Bronzo Antico, in L. Nigro (ed.), Tell es-Sultan/Gerico alle soglie della prima urbanizzazione: il villaggio e la necropoli del Bronzo Antico I (3300-3000 a.C.), (= Rome La Sapienza Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan 01), Roma 2005: 49-70.

Polcaro, A., Le tombe del periodo Proto-Urbano, in L. Nigro (ed.), Tell es-Sultan/Gerico alle soglie della prima urbanizzazione: il villaggio e la necropoli del Bronzo Antico I (3300-3000 a.C.), (= Rome La Sapienza Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan 01), Roma 2005: 129-142.

PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Polcaro, A., Muniz, J., Alvarez, V., The New Spanish-Italian Expedition to the EB I site of Jebel al-Mutawwaq, Middle Wadi az- Zarqa, Jordan: Preliminary Results of the 2012–2013 Campaigns, in Rolf A. Stucky et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 9-13 June 2014, Basel, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2016: 1633–1645.

Muniz, J, Polcaro, A., Alvarez, V., New Spanish - Italian Excavations to the Dolmen Field of Jabal al-Muṭawwaq in Middle Wadi az-Zarqa. Preliminary Results of 2012 Campaign, in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 12. Proceedings of the International Congress on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, Berlin 5-11 May 2013, Amman 2016: 477-488.

Polcaro, A. “L’ottavo anno da quando Ishtar si manifestò ad Ebla”. Venere e il suo simbolismo nella città paleo siriana, in V.F. Polcaro (ed.), Atti del XII° Convegno della Società Italiana di Archeoastronomia, Albano Laziale 5-6 ottobre 2012, Napoli 2014: 345-362.

Polcaro, A., The Tuleilat al-Ghassul Star Painting: A Hypothesis Regarding a Solar Calendar from the Fourth Millennium BC, in L. Feliu et al. (eds.), Time and History in the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Barcelona, 26-30 July 2010, Barcelona 2013: 273-284.

Polcaro, A., J. A. Belmonte, A. C. Gonzalez-Garcia,  Study on the Orientation of the Bronze Age Temple of Pella, Jordan: the dying god Baal and the Rituals of the Summer Solstice, in I. Sprajc, P. Pehani (eds.), Ancient Cosmologies and Modern Prophets, Proceeding of the International Conference of European Society for Astronomy in Culture, Ljubljana, 24-29 September 2012, Supplement of Anthropological Notebooks 19, Ljubljana 2013: 481-492.

Polcaro, A., Fire and Death: incineration in the Levantine Early-Middle Bronze Age cemeteries as mark of cultural identities, or as technical instrument of purification?, in P. Bieliński et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 30 April - 4 May 2012, Warsaw, Warsaw 2013: 137-148.

Polcaro, A., The Stone and the Landscape: the phenomenon of megalithic constructions in Jordan in the main historical context of Southern Levant at the beginning of the 3rd Millennium BC, in L. Bombardieri et al. (eds.), Identity and Connectivity. Proceeding of the 16th Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology, 1st-3rd March 2012 Florence, Italy, BAR series 2581, Oxford: 127-136.

Polcaro A.,  Disposal of food funerary offering and reconstruction of funerary banquet rituals in Middle Bronze Age Syria: the tomb P.8680 at Tell Mardikh-Ebla, in R. Matthews et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, London 12-16 April 2010, Wiesbaden 2012: 321-338.

Polcaro, A., Un culto solare nel IV millennio a.C. nei dipinti di Tuleilat al-Ghassul, in L. Lozito, F. Pastore (eds.), Cielo e Cultura Materiale. Recenti scoperte di archeoastronomia nel bacino del Mediterraneo, XIII Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico, Paestum 20 Novembre 2010, Salerno, 2011: 37-48.

Polcaro, A., Uruk…Guarda le sue mura, i suoi merli sono come il rame…Mai nessuno, foss’anche un re potrà costruire un monumento che le eguagli, in C. Masseria, D. Loscalzo (eds.), Miti di Guerra, Riti di Pace (Perugia - Torgiano 4-6 Maggio 2009), Bari 2011: 63-74.

Polcaro, A., Jebel Mutawwaq Dolmens: Cult of Ancestors in EB I Wadi Az-Zarqa Valley, Jordan, in P. Matthiae et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th ICAANE, Rome 5-10 May 2008, Volume 2, Wiesbaden, 2010: 553-566.

Polcaro, A. - Mogliazza, S., Death and Cult of Dead in Middle Bronze II Ebla: an Archaeological and Anthropological Study on Shaft Tomb P.8680, near Southern Palace (Area FF), in P. Matthiae et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th ICAANE, Rome 5-10 May 2008, Volume 3, Wiesbaden, 2010: 431-446.

Polcaro, A. - Ranieri, M., La geometria di alcuni edifici del Bronzo Antico di Tell Arad (zone H e M) e di Bab edh-Dhra (Charnel House A44): lo squadro numerico, la composizione armonica e l'unità di lunghezza, in Mensura Caeli: Territorio, Città, Architetture, Strumenti, Atti dell' VIII Congresso SIA (Ferrara 17-18 Ottobre 2008), Ferrara, 2010: 202-213.

Polcaro, A., EB I Settlements and Environment in the Wadi az-Zarqa: Dolmens and Ideology of Death, in J. M. Cordoba et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 2 April – 8 April 2006, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 2008: 31-48.

Polcaro, A., The Ideology of Ancestors in the EB I Palestine and Transjordan: The Cult of Dead as Social Structure and Factor of Territorial Unification of Early Urban Development, in H. Küne et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 29 March – 3 April 2004, Freie Universität Berlin, Wiesbaden 2008: 521-536.

Polcaro, A., The Jericho Necropolis: Study, Protection and Possible Tourism Exploitation, in L. Nigro - H. Taha (eds.) Proceedings of the International Training Workshop: Tell es-Sultan in the context of the Jordan Valley: site management, conservation and sustainable development, Jericho - Ariha, 7th - 11th February 2005, ROSAPAT 02, Roma 2006: 253-266.

BOOK REVIEW

Polcaro A. - Polcaro V.F., L. Valdés, Gastiburu: el santuario vasco de la Edad del Hierro,

Archeologia e Calcolatori, 20, 2009, 423-425.

Polcaro, A., M. Incerti, Mensura Caeli. Territorio, città, architetture, strumenti, Archeologia e Calcolatori, 21, 2010, 362-365.