Tesse Stek
Associate Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Associate Professor Mediterranean Archaeology, currently Head of the World Archaeology Department.
Research Interest
My research interests concentrate on the Iron Age, Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Central Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on the early Italic peoples and early Roman colonialism. My PhD thesis (resulting in the book Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy, Amsterdam 2009) focused on the impact of Rome in the realm of religion and rural settlement organization. It argues for a stronger Roman impact in these spheres than previously assumed, by pointing out unexpected patterns related to early Roman expansion. After that, I conducted research on early Roman colonization at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College) and the University of Glasgow, starting new field work in Aesernia (263 BC).
Publications
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Stek T.D. (2015), Cult, conquest, and ‘religious Romanization’. The impact of Rome on cult places and religious practices in Italy. In: Stek T.D., Burgers G.-J. (Eds.) The impact of Rome on cult places and religious practices in ancient Italy. London: Institute of Classical Studies School of Advanced Study University of London. 1-28.
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Casarotto A., Pelgrom J. & Stek T.D. (2016), Testing settlement models in the early Roman colonial landscapes of Venusia (291 B.C.), Cosa (273 B.C.) and Aesernia (263 B.C.), Journal of Field Archaeology 41(5): 568-586.
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Casarotto A., Stek T.D., Pelgrom J., van Otterloo R.H. & Sevink J. (2017), Assessing visibility and geomorphological biases in regional field surveys: The case of Roman Aesernia, Geoarchaeology : 1-16.
