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Andrea Vianello
Contact
Office: SOC 046
Phone: 813/463-3936
Email: avianello@usf.edu
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Biography
Andrea Vianello (M.A., Ph.D.) has worked at excavations in Crete, Britain and Italy.
His research focuses on material analysis (obsidian, metals, ceramics, etc.) and the
prehistoric (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age) Mediterranean cultures. He works with pXRF,
SEM-EDS, SEM and XRD equipment and also carries out stable isotope analyses on carbon
and nitrogen for diet and oxygen and strontium for mobility.
He is researching exchanges and trade, human-environment interactions especially pertaining
to wetlands, cultural transmission, and socio-economic issues. His monograph on Late
Bronze Age Mycenaean and Italic Products was presented to acclaim at the XV World
Congress UISPP in Lisbon, September 2006. He has published extensively in academic
journals, edited volumes and monographs, and has been co-editor of a special issue
of Open Archaeology. He is currently co-editor of the publication of the proceedings
of the International Obsidian Conference in STAR and is preparing a volume on communicating
archaeology to different audiences. He has a strong interest in the use of digital
technologies applied to archaeology, with special concern for Web technologies to
disseminate result