Ricercatore RTDA, GSD 10/STAA-01 - s.s.d. STAA-01/E PI: “GlobalSusa - Global City: The Dynamics of Bronze Age Globalization at Susa” (MSCA2024_0000024, CUP C63C25000440001) ORCID: 0000-0002-7063-272X
Qualifications Abilitazione nazionale professore, II Fascia, -10/N1, Culture Del Vicino Oriente Antico, del Medio Oriente e dell’africa -10/N3, Culture Dell’asia Centrale E Orientale PhD, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)
Previous positions - 1/11/2024-21/5/2025 Assegno di Ricerca (tipo B), Cultural Interactions and Language Contacts: Iranian and Non-Iranian Languages in Contact. “L'Orientale” (PRIN 2020PLEBK4-CUP C61B22002210001). - 30/04/2022-29/04/2024 PI, ELAMortuary, “L'Orientale” (MSCA-IF, ID 892581). - 01/01/2020-31/1/2022 PI, “Villages to Empire: 4000 Years of Death and Society in Elam”. Macquarie University, Sydney (MQRF).
Books -Wicks, Y. 2024. Elite Mortuary Culture at Susa: An analysis of early Middle Bronze Age clay coffin burials. Harrassowitz. -Wicks, Y. 2019. Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors. Brill. -Wicks, Y. 2015. Bronze “Bathtub” Coffins in the Context of 8th-6th Century B.C.E. Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite Funerary Practices, Archaeopress. -Álvarez-Mon, J., Basello, G.P. & Wicks, Y. (eds) 2018. The Elamite World. Routledge Worlds Series.
Latest articles -Wicks, Y. 2024. The Tomb of Two Priestesses? The Late Neo-Elamite Jubaji Tomb in a Religious-Royal Context (inscriptions G.P. Basello). AsiAnA 6: 107-143. -Álvarez-Mon, J. & Wicks, Y. 2024. Like a Raining Cloud: Archery as the Pillar of Elamite Warfare. In J. Hyland & K. Rezakhani (eds) Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires. Brill, 34-83. -Wicks, Y. 2023. Production and Mortuary Consumption of Copper-Base Materials at Susa in the Early to Middle Bronze Age Transition. Old World: Jnl of Ancient Africa and Eurasia 3:1-38.