VIDALE MASSIMO

Massimo Vidale,
Curriculum Vitae

Massimo Vidale was born in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza, Italy) on April 10, 1956. He is Associate Professor at the University of Padova (Methodology of Archaeological Research and Bronze age Archaeology of Central Asia, Iran and the Indus Valley). He has taught ancient technology at the Central Institute for Restoration (ICR, Rome) from 1990 to 2003. He has been for a long time Visiting Professor at the Universities of Genoa and Rome "La Sapienza" (Taphonomy and Funerary Archaeology), with micro-stratigraphic excavations of urns with cremated remains for the detailed reconstruction of cremation processes and subsequent secondary burials. In addition to studies of dentition in prehistory, he specializes in the study of ancient and traditional contemporary craft technologies from an ethnoarchaeological perspective; and in micro-stratigraphy for the reconstruction of funerary behavior. Between 1987 and 1988 he was a Fellow in Materials Analysis at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC, USA). Later (1987-1988) with a NATO postdoctoral fellowship he continued his collaboration with SI and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) continuing his studies on ancient ceramic technologies and craft industries of the Indus civilization.
Between 1987 and 1988 he studied at the Italian Archaeological School of Athens, where he obtained a postgraduate degree in Greek and Roman Archaeology. Since 1976, he has an unbroken record of field experience in Italy, Central, Middle and South Asia and North Africa. He has carried out archaeological and ethnoarchaeological projects in Italy, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Tunisia and Eritrea. He is the author of more than 200 specialized articles on the results of his research, of as many articles addressed to a more general audience, of 9 monographic volumes and two co-edited volumes.