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MICHELE CUPITO'

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Professore Associato

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PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 7 - PALAZZO LIVIANO - PADOVA

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0498274583

Michele Cupitò (Treviso, 1971). Associate professor of “Prehistory and Protohistory” at Cultural Heritage Department (DBC) of the University of Padova. Director of the post-graduate School in Archaeological Heritage of the same Department between 2015 and 2019. Since 2017, person in charge for the Archaeology Lab and of “Fondo Pigorini” archive. Tenured professor of “European Protohistory” for the BA in Archaeology, of “Preroman Veneto Archaeology” for the MA in Archaeological Sciences and of “Prehistory” for the Postgraduate School. He is part of the Faculty Staff of PhD Schools in History, Critics and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Since 2006 he is a member of IIPP (Italian Institute for Pre- and Protohistory) and he is a member of the scientific committees of the journals “Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana” and “Ipotesi di Preistoria”. He carried out archaeological researches in Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Abruzzo and Sicilia; since 2012 he is a member of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. Since 2010 he is Director of the “Fondo Paviani project”, aimed at the excavation of the Bronze Age site of Fondo Paviani (VR, Veneto); since 2019 he heads the “Altnos Project”, investigating the Early Iron Age of Altino (VE, Veneto). He is scientific consultant for the excavation of Pilastri di Bondeno terramara (FE, Emilia-Romagna), for the Anthropology Museum of the University of Padova and for the Civic Museum of Legnago (VR, Veneto). He is Co-Director of the “Piovego Project”, aimed at the publication of the preroman cemetery of CUS-Piovego (PD). In 2011 and 2013 he was part of the scientific committees of the IIPP conferences “150 years of Prehistory and Protohistory in Italy” and “Prehistory and Protohistory of Veneto”. He took part to many national and international conferences; the most significant ones are: "Collapse or continuity? Environment and development of Bronze Age human landscapes", Kiel (Germany), 2011; “2200 BC – A climatic breakdown as a cause for the collapse of the old world?”, Halle (D), 2014; “Iron Metallurgy and the formation of complex societies in the Western Mediterranean (1st Millennium BC)” Calafell (SP), 2016; “Frattesina fifty years later. The Po Delta between Europe and the Mediterranean in the centuries around 1000 BC.”, Rovigo, 2018. Among the several conferences organized in Padova, the following ones can be highlighted: “Warfare and society in Bronze Age Italy. Archaeology and anthropology”, 2009; “Tito Livio and Northern Italy before Rome. The archaeology view-point”, 2017; “Precious, semiprecious and unusual materials in Italian Copper and Bronze Age. Archaeology, archaeometry and paleotechnology” - V IAPP, 2018. In 2013 he organized the exhibition “Written on bones. Tales of everyday life in the Bronze Age community of Olmo di Nogara” at Legnago Museum. His main research topics are:
1) settlement and organization territorial dynamics in Northern Italy – mainly in Central-Eastern Po Valley – between Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, and wide-range relationships with Europe, Aegaean and Levantine areas;
2) development of social structures between Bronze Age and Eary Iron Age in Northern Italy, regarding in particular Nort-Eastern regions;
3) “Warfare Archaeology” in pre-protohistory;
4) proto-urbanisation and urbanisation processes in North-Eastern Italy, with a particular focus to Veneto region;
5) history of Paletnology in Italy between ‘800 and the beginning of ’900.

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  • at Studio Docente
    Il docente riceverà per appuntamento, contattandolo all'indirizzo: michele.cupito@unipd.it

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