Paolo Biagi

Prof. Dr. Paolo Biagi

Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Veneto, Italy
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Academic Career Length

43Years (1984-Present)

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22 February 1994 in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
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1 June 1984 in World Archaeology
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WTWolfgang Torke
Wolfgang Torke
MTMaurizio Tosi
Maurizio Tosi
HUHans‐Peter Uerpmann
Hans‐Peter Uerpmann
First evidence of prehistoric coastal adaptations along the Arabian shores of the Indian Ocean is being recovered at Qurum in the Sultanate of Oman. The cluster of shell‐middens currently excavated relates to a small population of fishermen of the 5th and 4th millennia B.C. having a strongly maritime‐oriented culture. The economy was based on local resource intensification, but stock‐breeding of goats and cattle was practised as well, suggesting early contacts with farming groups and the spreading of domesticates through coastal interchanges.
1 March 2018 in Quaternary International
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NMNiccolò Mazzucco
Niccolò Mazzucco
1 June 2006 in World Archaeology
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RNRenato Nisbet
Renato Nisbet
The analysis of the settlement structures, material culture assemblages and handicraft activities of the aceramic, fifth millennium bp shell middens of the coast of Oman has shown that sedentarization had already taken place in this area among the Middle Holocene fisher-gatherers. These observations have been possible thanks to the study of four settlements and their habitation structures that indicate the relative permanence of their inhabitants throughout a long period of the year, at least during the autumn and winter months. The archaeological evidence for seasonal movements towards the regions of the interior is very limited, although ethnographic parallels would suggest that they occurred at least in the summer. Of particular importance are the observations regarding the handicraft activities. They show that some of the sites were related to the production of specific prestige and utilitarian goods such as polished stone earrings, different types of necklace beads and marine shell fishhooks.
1 September 2006 in World Archaeology
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NENikos Efstratiou
Nikos Efstratiou
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PEParaskevi Elefanti
Paraskevi Elefanti
PKPanagiotis Karkanas
Panagiotis Karkanas
MNMaria Ntinou
Maria Ntinou
The surveys and excavations carried out in the highland zone of the Grevena Pindus Mountains have revealed that the watershed that separates western Macedonia from Epirus was (seasonally) inhabited in different prehistoric times, from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age. The highest concentration of ‘sites’ is known from the surroundings of the modern village of Samarina, which is rich in good-quality chert raw material outcrops. This territory is still nowadays heavily exploited by Vlach shepherds who seasonally carry out pastoral activities, moving their flocks from the eastern lowlands up to the high-altitude pastures. The excavations carried out at three different sites, all lying on a flysch substratum, revealed the presence of a redeposited lower sediment, characterized by a polygonal soil caused by ground freezing that was later effected by erosion canals produced by human interference in the landscape. The results so far obtained from a few charcoal radiocarbon dates indicate that this fact took place in at least three different periods from the middle Bronze Age to the seventh century ad.
1 February 1988 in World Archaeology
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MCMauro Cremaschi
Mauro Cremaschi
The preliminary investigations carried out on the Rohri Hills in January 1986 led to the discovery of several Palaeolithic sites, seven of which are to be attributed to the Early Palaeolithic Acheulian tradition. The laboratory analysis of the physical state of the artefacts as well as the study of the soils still preserved in some areas of the Hills allowed the Authors to formulate a preliminary assessment of the environmental changes which occurred in the area between the Early/Middle Pleistocene and the Harappan Culture which flourished in the Indus Valley during the III millennium BC.