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2 March 2005
Archaeological PhD student Ms Lucia Lancellotti will travel to the Monash Prato Centre later this year after being awarded the Sardinian Cultural Association Travelling Scholarship.
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| From left: Ms Lucia Lancellotti; last year's winner Ms Brenda Runnegar; director, Italian Institute of Culture, Dottoressa Simonetta Magnani; Mr Paul Lostia; 2002 award winner Ms Kari Henriksen; and Professor Peter Howard, Monash University. |
Ms Lancellotti, from the School of Geography and Environmental Science, is the fourth recipient of the $2500 annual award, designed to help Monash students conduct research in Sardinia.
She plans to use the money to reconstruct, through computer simulations, the ancient landscape in south-west Sardinia, known as the Bay of Oristano.
"My aim is to reconstruct landscapes of the region from the Late Bronze Age (3000 BC) to the present time," she said.
Ms Lancellotti and a team of researchers from the School of Geography and Environmental Science will leave for a two-month stint in Sardinia in September. The fieldwork will be followed by a week-long visit to the Monash Prato Centre.
"Prato will serve as an ideal base to view the archaeology library at the nearby Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and I will also be able to view aerial photographs of west central Sardinia at the Istituto di Geografico Militare in Florence," she said.
Mr Paul Lostia, president of the Sardinian Cultural Association, presented the award to Ms Lancellotti before an audience of 70 people in Heidelberg on 20 February.
During her visit to the Monash Prato Centre, Ms Lancellotti also intends to explore opportunities for organising an archaeology and landscape reconstruction seminar or conference series at Prato in 2006. | 
