Paolo Biagi

Paolo Biagi
Scholar-in-Residence, Humanities and Social Sciences
- PhD: London University Institute of Archaeology, UK, 1981
Email: paolo.biagi -AT- iitgn.ac.in
Office:
AB 12/403C
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Selected Publications
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P. Biagi. Mt. Chikiani obsidian and its ritual use on the Javakheti Plateau (Georgian Caucasus)? In: M. Furholt, R. Hofmann, W. Kirleis, J. Kneisel, D. Mischka, M. Wunderlich (eds). A haunting spectre – archaeological studies of social organisation, economic practice and inequality. Kiel (in review), 2024.
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E. Starnini, P. Biagi, B. Gratuze. Archaeometric analysis of the obsidian assemblage from the Hodoni/Hodony Vinča and Tisza sites (Banat, Romania). Archeologiai Muhely. Budapest (in review), 2024.
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A. Basit, E. Argiriadis, M. Bortolini, D. Battistel, G. ur-Rahman, P. Biagi. Organic Residues in Experimental and Archaeological Pottery: a Case Study from Taxila Valley, Gandhara (Pakistan). Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports (in review)., 2024.
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P. Biagi. The Exploitation of the Lesser Caucasus during the Bronze Age: Life and Death in the Javakheti Plateau. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 29 (2) (in press), 2023.
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P. Biagi, R. Nisbet and B. Gratuze. Highland zone exploitation in South-eastern Europe: The case of Mount Chikiani obsidian in the Javakheti Plateau (Georgia). In F.-X. Le Bourdonnec, S. Shackley, and M. Orange (eds) Sourcing Obsidian. Springer Nature (in press), 2023.
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P. Biagi, R. Nisbet. The shell middens of the Las Bela Coast (Balochistan, Pakistan). In B. Mutin and N. Eskandrian (eds) Recent Advances in Archaeological Research On the South-Eastern Iranian Plateau. Essays in Honor of C.C. Lamberg Karlowsky on the Occasion of his 85th Birthday. Turnholt, Brepols (in press), 2023.
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P. Biagi. The Black Sea Area. In Stuts, L.N., Stjerna, R.P. and Tory, M. (eds) The Handbook of Mesolithic Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford (in press), 2023.
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P. Biagi. The shell middens of the northern coast of the Arabian Sea (Pakistan). In A. Deshpande-Mukherjee and P. Goyal (eds) International webinar Molluscs and Ancient Human societies (Submitted)., 2023.
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P. Biagi, M. Spataro. The Trieste Karst and its caves: Discontinuities and continuities in the Early Holocene. Volume in Honour of T. Težak-Gregl. Zagreb (in review)., 2023.
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P. Biagi. The Amri Chalcolithic Phase in Sindh (Pakistan): What we Know and What we should Know. Światowit 61 (Submitted)., 2022.
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Work Experience
- Scholar-in-Residence, Archaeological Sciences Centre, Department of Earth Sciences (09 January 2025 - 11 March 2025)
- Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Prehistory and Protohistory), 1988 - 2002
- Associate Professor, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Palaeoethnology), 1981- 1988