At the Nature and Humankind Museum a study day in honor of the archaeologist Sandro Salvatori

A study day in honor of Sandro Salvatori to investigate the excavations at Al-Khiday will be take place on Wednesday October, 25 at the Nature and Humankind Museum of the University of Padua.

It will be followed by an open public showing of the documentary that explores aspects of the life of the hunter-gatherer-fishermen who lived on the banks of the White Nile in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene.

The event will be conducted in English, and registration is required to participate by emailing lara.maritan@unipd.it.

  • 10:30-11:00 Institutional greetings and presentation

Donatella Usai, Centre for Sudan and Sub-Saharan Studies

Alessandra Lazzari, ISMEO

Gilberto Artioli, University of Padua Fabrizio Nestola, CAM-University Centre for Museums, University of Padua

  • 11:00-11:30 – Lara Maritan, University of Padua

Strontium isotope analysis for pottery provenance studies along the Nile: does it work?

  • 11:30-12:00 – Gregorio Dal Sasso, CNR-IGG

The diagenetic history of the human remains at Al-Khiday

  • 12:00-12:30 – Paola Iacumin, University of Parma

 Isotopic study of Mesolithic remains of Pila wernei: reconstruction of climatic conditions and environment between 8700 and 7500 BP in Sudan

  • 12:30 – 13:00 and 14:30 – Visit to the Museum of Nature and Humankind, “Deep Time” area and “The Al-Khiday Site” room
  • 14:30-15:30 – Lunch Break

 15:30-16:00 – Paolo Biagi, University of Venice

Shell middens along the coasts of Oman and Pakistan. Their location and chronology

  • 16:00-16:30 – Massimo Vidale, University of Padua

Maybe I don’t even remember how much I learned from Sandro

  • 16:30-17:00 – St. John Simpson, the British Museum

Looking east: case studies from Mesopotamia to Afghanistan on changing perceptions through archaeology and museum curation

  • 17:00-17:30 – Mariangela Ruta Serafini, Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape

In the Elysian Fields with Sandro

  • 17:30-18:30 – Showing of the documentary

Fisher-hunter-gatherers: inhabitants of the White Nile in recent prehistory

Download the poster