Paolo Biagi

Academic Titles

  • PhD 1981 Prehistoric Archaeology. Institute of Archaeology, London University 1981
  • Laurea (MA) in Classic Literature. Milan State  University 1972

Proffesional Activities

  • Associate Researcher of the Department of Anthropology, Berkeley University, USA (May 1997), 
  • Visiting Professor Tbilisi State University, Georgia Millennium Programme (October 2012),
  • Erasmus Mundus teacher Universities II Mechnikov, Odessa, P Mogila, Nikolaev and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, (2017-2022)
  • Université, Institut de recherche, Académie des Sciences, Musée, Patrimoine
  • Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Full Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory (2002 – 2018)
  • Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Associate Professor of Palaeoethnology (1988-2002)
  • Confirmed Researcher, University of Genoa, Institute of Archaeology, (1981-1988)
  • Curator, Natural History Museum of Brescia (1978-1981)

Field Activities

  • Director: Italian Archaeological Mission in the Sultanate of Oman, 1988-1989
  • Director: Italian Archaeological Mission in the Banat and Transylvania (Romania), 2002-2006
  • Co-Director of the Italian-Georgian Mission in South Georgia (with V. Licheli), 2014-present
  • Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission Sindh and Las Bela, formerly Joint Rohri Hills Project, 1990-present

Academic Production

Publications as editor

  • Biagi P (ed.) 1990. The Neolithization of the Alpine Region. Monografie di Natura Bresciana 13: 1-235. Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Brescia,
  • Biagi P, Nandris J (eds) 1994. Highland Zone Exploitation in Southern Europe. Monografie di Natura Bresciana 20: 1-338. Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Brescia,
  • Baroni C. e Biagi P. (eds.) 1997 – Excavations at the high altitude Mesolithic site of Laghetti del Crestoso (Bovegno, Brescia – Northern  Italy).  Monografie  dell’Ateneo di SS  LL  AA  di Brescia. Brescia.
  • Caneva I, Lemorini C, Zampetti D, Biagi P (eds) 2001. Beyond tools. Redifining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 9. Berlin, ex Oriente, 1-455.
  • P. Biagi (ed) – Spataro E 2002. The First Farming Communities of the Adriatic: Pottery Production and Circulation in the Early and Middle Neolithic. Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Quaderno 9: 1-255. Trieste.
  • Ammerman A J and Biagi P (eds) The Widening Harvest. The Neolithci Transition in Euroipe: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Archaeological Institute of America. Colloquia and Conference Papers, 6: 1-343. Boston
  • Spataro M and Biagi P (eds) 2007. A Short Walk Through the Balkans: The First Farmers of the Carpathian Basin and Adjacent Regions. Proceedings of the Conference held at the Institute of Archaeology UCL on June 20th-22nd, 2005. Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Quaderno 12: 1-237. Trieste.
  • Starnini E and Biagi P (eds) 2007. Makkay J. The Excavations of the Early Neolithic Sites of the Körös Culture in the Körös Valley, Hungary: The final Report. Volume I The Excavations: Stratigraphy, Structures and Graves. Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Quaderno 11: 1-284. Budapest.
  • Biagi P (ed) E. Starnini. Fired Clay, Plastic Figurines of the Körös Culture from the Excavations of the Early Neolithic Sites of the Körös Culture in the Köros Valley, Hungary. Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Quaderno 14: 1-314. Trieste.
  • Antonetti C and Biagi P (eds) 2017. With Alexander in India and Central Asia. Moving East and Back to West: 1-292. Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia.
  • Biagi P and Starnini E (eds) 2018. Gli scavi all’Arma dell’Aquila (Finale Ligure, savona): Le ricerche e i materiali degli scavi del Novecento. Società per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Quaderno 15 (in press). Trieste.
  • Biagi P and Starnini E (eds) 2023 Archaeological Landscape and Settlement. MDPI, Land Special Issue, Bern
  • Biagi P and Starnini E (eds) 2026 Archaeological Landscape and Settlement II. MDPI, Land Special Issue, Bern 
  • Biagi P (ed) 2026 The Archaeology of Sindh and Las Bela Revised : Along the River, down to the Sea. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, Springer Cham (in press).

Publications as author in scientific review

  • Biagi P, Cremaschi M. 1988. The early Palaeolithic sites of the  Rohri Hills (Sind – Pakistan) and  their  environmental significance. World Archaeology, 19 (3): 421-433.
  • Biagi  P, Cremaschi M e Nisbet R. 1993. Soil Exploitation and Early Agriculture in Northern Italy. The Holocene, 3 (2): 164-168.
  • Biagi P. 1994. A  Radiocarbon Chronology for the Aceramic Shell-middens of Coastal Oman. Arabian  Archaeology and Epigraphy, 5: 17-31.
  • P. Biagi, E. Starnini and C. Beltrame 2016 – The Mercurio Gunflints: A techno-typological and cultural assessment. The Antiquaries Journal, 96: 363-389.
  • E. Starnini, P. Biagi and F. Mazzucco 2018 – The beginning of the Neolithic in the Po Plain (Northern Italy): Problems and Perspectives. Quaternary International, 470: 301-317.
  • Biagi P. and Nisbet R. 2006 – The prehistoric fisher-gatherers of the western coast of the Arabian Sea: a case of seasonal sedentarization? World Archaeology, 28 (2): 220-238.
  • P. Biagi, R. Nisbet, M. Spataro, E. Starnini 2021 – Archaeology at Ras Muari: Sonari, a Bronze Age Fisher-Gatherers Settlement at the Hab River Mouth (Karachi, Pakistan). The Antiquaries Journal, 101: 16-66.
  • Atakuman C., Erdogu, B., Gemici, H.C., Baykara, I., Karakoc, M., Biagi, P., Starnini, E., Guibeau, D., Yucel, N. and Turan, D. 2022- Before the Neolithic in the Aegean: The Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene Record of Bozburun – South-west Turkey. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 17 (3): 323-355.
  • N. Efstratiou, P. Biagi, E. Starnini, D. Kyriakou and A. Eleftheriadou 2023 – Agia Marina and Peristereònas:  Two Epipalaeolithic sites in the Island of Lemnos (Greece). Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology 6 (5).
  • P. Biagi, E. Starnini, N. Efstratiou, R. Nisbet, P.D. Hughes and J.C. Woodward 2023 –  Archaeological Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece. In P. Biagi and E. Starnini (eds) Archaeological Landscape and Settlement, Land special issue, Land 2023, 12 (1), 96: 1-42.
  • P. Biagi 2025 – The Black Sea Area. In Stuts, L.N., Stjerna, R.P. and Tory, M. (eds) The Handbook of Mesolithic Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Chapter 13: 236-256.

International Reputation

  • The Neolithisation of the Alpine region (Natural History Museum of Brescia) 29 April-1 May 1988 
  • Highland Zone Exploitation in Southern Europe (Natural History Museum of Brescia) 29 April-1 May 1993 (with J. Nandris) 
  • The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Back — Looking Forward (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – I) 29-31 October 1998 (with A.J. Ammerman) 
  • Workshop on PPN Chipped Lithic Industries (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – I) 2-5 November 1998 (with I. Caneva, C. Lemorini and D. Zampetti) 
  • A Short Walk Through the Balkans (UCL London – UK) 20-22 June 2005  (with S. Shennan and M. Spataro)
  • Ten Years After: The Neolithic of the Balkans, as uncovered by the last decade of research (with D. Ciobotaru, F. Draşovean and M. Spataro)(Timişoara – RO) 9th-10th November 2007
  • Anabasi: Sulle orme di Anessandro dalla morte di Dario (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) 17-18th November 2014 (with C. Antonetti)

Honoris causa

  • 1) Professor Honoris Causa, I.I. Mechnikov University, Odessa, Ukraine (2014), 
  • 2) Professor Honoris Causa, Black Sea State University P. Mohila, Nikolaev, Ukraine (2016)

Awards and Recognition

  • Gold Medal Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan (2002), 
  • Gold Medal Brescia Municipality, Italy (2002), 
  • Premio Brescianità, Ateneo di Brescia, Italy (2015) 
  • Premio della Ricerca, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2015), 
  • Honorary Fellow, Society of Antiquaries, London UK (2009).