Paolo Biagi
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Paolo Biagi (born 1948) is an Italian
archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
specialising in the prehistory of Southeast Europe, Russia and the Caucasus, and Southwest Asia. He is currently a professor at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.


Education and career

Biagi obtained a '' laurea'' from the University of Milan in 1972 and a PhD from the Institute of Archaeology in London in 1981. He has held academic positions at the Natural History Museum of Brescia (1978–1981), the University of Genoa (1981–1988), and the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (1988–present). He became a full professor ('' professore ordinario'') of prehistory and protohistory in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari in 2002. He is currently Senior Researcher of the same University Biagi has been director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Banat and Transylvania (Romania) and is at present the director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan), Pakistan since 1993. He also directed the Italian Archaeological Expedition in Oman (1990–1991). He is conducting archaeological research in the Central Alpine arc, the Pindos Mountains and the island of Lemnos (Greece), the Caucasus of Georgia, and Sindh and Las Bela (Pakistan). He is approved High Education Commission of Pakistan supervisor of Quaid-i-Azam PhD students. Biagi is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an honorary professor of
Odessa and Nikolaev Universities Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrat ...
and was awarded a gold medal from
Shah Abdul Latif University Shah Abdul Latif University ( ur, , sd, شاه عبداللطيف يونيورسٽي; abbreviated as SALU), is a public research university located in rural Khairpur of Sindh, Pakistan. The university is named after the mystic poet and spiri ...
in 1999.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Biagi, Paolo Living people 1948 births People from Brescia 21st-century Italian archaeologists University of Milan alumni Alumni of the UCL Institute of Archaeology Academic staff of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Italian expatriates in Pakistan