Professional profile

Archaeologist | Settlement Dynamics & Funerary Practices | Cultural Interaction & Social Identity | Iconography & Iconology | Mediterranean Archaeology | Bronze–Archaic Period Studies

I am an archaeologist specializing in Mediterranean and Italian archaeology between the Bronze Age and the Archaic Period (about 2nd millennium – mid-1st millennium BCE).

My research over the past decade has focused on: patterns and indicators of cultural interaction, negotiation strategies of social identities, and display of pre-eminence; evolution of settlement strategies, as well as societal and burial practices; exploitation of natural resources and adaptation to changing climatic and environmental conditions; iconographic and iconological features of the anthropomorphic representations, and the perception and display of the numinous. For the last two decades, the profound synergy between a historical-anthropological-archaeological approach to realia and other methods of investigation (e.g. archaeometry, geophysics, remote sensing, digitisation) has characterised my research. I am the designer and the director of the international and transdisciplinary project “Bisenzio (Capodimonte, VT – Italy) between the Bronze and the Archaic Age. A capital node connecting dynamic networks in South Etruria".

CNR Disciplinary Fields and Research Management Sectors

• SH6_3 - Archaeology of early literate societies and early civilizations
• SH6_2 - Prehistoric archaeology, archaeology of non-literate societies
• SH6_5 - Archaeological science, bioarchaeology, environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology

MUR Italian Scientific-Disciplinary Sector

• ARCH-01/A Prehistory and Protohistory
• ARCH-01/C Pre-Roman Italian Civilization and Etruscology
• ARCH-01/D Classical Archaeology
• ARCH-01/G Archaeological Research Methods

Groups & Labs CNR ISPC

Archaeology in Lazio →
Prehistory and Protohistory →

Publications

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Highlight

Babbi A. (2021), Mediterranean ‘warrior’ tombs. A balancing act between the variety of social encounters and the standardizing common discourse among peers during the early 1st Millennium BC., in S. Bourdin, O. Dally, A. Naso, C. Smith (eds), The Orientalizing cultures in the Mediterranean, 8th-6th cent. BC: Origins, cultural contacts and local developments: the case of Italy. Proceedings of the International Conference (Rome, 19th-21st January 2017), in Mediterranea. Studi e ricerche sul Mediterraneo antico, Supplementary volume n.s. 1, 2021, Roma: CNR Edizioni, pp. 433-477. ISSN 1827-0506; ISBN 978-88-8080-465-9.

Babbi, A. Celant (2022), Danzando con Dioniso a nuova vita: Transkulturalität, Worlds in-between e ‘Politics of Distance’ tra Bisenzio ed Eretria nell’avanzato VIII sec. a.C., in Mediterranea. Studi e ricerche sul Mediterraneo antico, Supplementary volume n.s. 2, 2022 (2023), Roma: CNR Edizioni, pp. 43-73. ISSN 1827-0506; ISBN 978-88-8080-550-2

Babbi A. , U. Peltz (2013), La Tomba del Guerriero di Tarquinia. Identità elitaria, concentrazione del potere e networks dinamici nel tardo VIII sec. a.C. – Das Kriegergrab von Tarquinia. Eliteidentität, Machtkonzentration und dynamische Netzwerke im späten 8. Jh. v. Chr., (Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Band 109). Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. ISBN 978-38-8467-207-5