Paolo Biagi Editor

Paolo Biagi has been working in Pakistan since 1985. He has carried out surveys and excavations in the Rohri Hills, the Thar Desert, lower Sindh and the coast of Las Bela in Pakistani Balochistan. His main interests regard prehistoric hunter/gatherers studies, lithic mining and technology, shell middens studies, radiocarbon chronology and high-altitude archaeology. At present, he is director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Lower Sindh and Balochistan and of the Italian-Georgian Archaeological Mission in South Georgia. He is Honorary Professor of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov University, Odessa and P. Mogila Black Sea University, Nikolaev (Ukraine). He is Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and has been awarded a Golden Medal from the Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur in 2002.