EDUCATION
2022
PhD degree, Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, Italy
Title: La frammentazione dei metalli nei ripostigli europei dell’età del Bronzo
Supervisor: Andrea Cardarelli
2018
MA archaeology (summa cum laude), Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, Italy
Title: Bronze Age hoards of mainland Italy
Tutor: Andrea Cardarelli
2013
BA archaeology and history of arts, University of Naples Federico II, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of Humanistic Studies, Italy
Title: Metal Weapons and Tools of Sicilian Bronze Age
Tutor: Marco Pacciarelli
FELLOWSHIPS
2022 (Jul) –2024 (Jan)
Post-Doc scholarship in the framework of the archaeological project ‘DigiRock – A smart detection tool to analyze and preserve Rock Art’
University of Salento, Cultural Heritage Department, Lecce, Italy
CETMA, New Technologies and Design Department, Brindisi, Italy
VISITINGS
2021
Freie Universität, Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Germany. Guest research fellow – (Jul-Dec).
2020
Freie Universität, Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Germany. Guest student - (Mar-Jun) suspended in April due to Covid-19
2018-2019
Georg-August Universität, Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Germany. Guest student to ERC ‘Weight and Value’ Project - (Nov-Feb)
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2022-2024
Post-Doc scholarship, in the framework of contest ‘RIPARTI-Regione Puglia’.
Project title: ‘DigiRock – A smart detection tool to analyze and preserve Rock Art’. University of Salento and CETMA. €37000 ca.
2021
‘Borsa di mobilità all’estero’, financed by Sapienza University of Rome. Project Title: 20ThousandMetals. Host Institution: Freie Universität, Berlin, July-December 2021. €6000.
2020
Initial Research Grant 1 (Avvio alla Ricerca Tipo 1), financed by Sapienza University of Rome. Project Title: Breaking down to rebuild the past: experimental archaeology on bronze sickles’ fragmentation in Bronze Age Europe, Experimental activity to Parco Archeologico e Museo all’aperto della Terramara di Montale (MO), June 2021. €1500.
2018-2021
PhD scholarship, Sapienza University of Rome. €40000 circa.
RELEASED PACKAGES
2023
CQArchaeo – https://github.com/lrncrd/CQArchaeo
(A freely downloadable Python package performing Cosine Quantogram Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations).
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (organizer)
2024
The “Data Rush” - Adapting to the Consequences of Increased Quantities of High-quality Data in Archaeological Research. 30th EAA Annual Meeting, Rome (Italy) 28-31 August, Session #843. Organized by N. Ialongo, S. Cereda, G. Lago.
SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (speaker)
2024
Montalvo-Puente C., Lago G., Cardarelli L., Pérez J., Avances sobre los estudios de las hachas-monedas, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) – Guayaquil, Ecuador (virtual), 12 January.
2023
Lago G., Breaking Metals: Quantification and Interpretation of Bronze Fragmentation in Bronze Age Italy. An interdisciplinary approach to the practice of fragmentation (Greek sanctuaries – Bronze Age hoards), Mainz (Germany) - Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie 22-24 November.
2023
Lago G., Fragmenting bronzes for shaping money? Quantitative analysis of bronze fragmentation of Late Bronze Age European hoards. 29th EAA Annual Meeting, Belfast (Ireland) 30 August-2 September, Session #376.
2023
Montalvo-Puente C., Lago G., Cardarelli L., Pérez J., Avances sobre los estudios de las hachas-monedas, Museo numismatico - Bco Central del Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador), 23 August.
2023
Scarano T., Lago G., Spada I., DigiRock. New research at ‘Grotta Poesia Piccola’ (Lecce, Italy) to preserve rock art heritage. XII Incontro Annuale di Preistoria e Protostoria, 19-20 May.
2023
Lago G., Spada I., DigiRock. A Smart Detection Tool to Analyze and Preserve Rock Art.Connecting Bronze Age Mediterranean: Le ricerche di protostoria dell’Università del Salento, Università del Salento (Lecce - Rettorato), 3 February.
2021
Di Renzoni A., Lago G., Il Milione. 14 anni di finanziamenti ERC alle Scienze dell’Antichità. VIII Seminario della Scuola di Dottorato in Archeologia, 18-19 February, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2020
Lago G., Fragmentation of metal in Bronze Age European hoards. 26th EAA Annual Meeting (virtual), 24-30 August, Session #045.
2020
Ialongo N., Lago G., A small-credit revolution?Testing the money-hypothesis on complete and fragmented objects in bronze age hoards. 26th EAA Annual Meeting (virtual), 24-30 August, Session #336.
2020
Lago G., Verso una definizione della frammentazione dei metalli nei ripostigli centro europei dell’età del bronzo. VII Seminario della Scuola di Dottorato in Archeologia, 12-14 February, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
2019
Ialongo N., Lago G., A small change revolution? Testing the money-hypothesis on complete and fragmented objects in bronze age hoards. Bronze Age Forum 2019, 8-10 November, Durham University College, England
2019
Lago G., La deposizione di oggetti metallici integri e frammentati nei ripostigli italiani dell’età del Bronzo. Analisi quantitativa ed interpretativa della frammentazione degli oggetti tra ipotesi di distruzione rituale ed utilizzo come proto-moneta. Archeofest 2019 Metallurgica: Storie di Artigiani, Metalli e Tecniche, 4-6 April, Museo preistorico etnografico Luigi Pigorini di Roma, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Peer review articles:
Lago G., Cardarelli L., Ialongo N., under review
CQArchaeo: a Python Package for Cosine Quantogram Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulations, Archeologia e Calcolatori, under review.
Scarano T., Lago G., Spada I., Luparelli A.,
under review
DigiRock: new research on rock art and AI at Grotta Poesia (Apulia, Italy), Antiquity, under review.
Ialongo N., Lago G., under review
Consumption patterns in prehistoric Europe are consistent with modern behaviour, Nature: Human behaviour, under review.
Montalvo-Puente C. E., Lago G., et al. 2023
Money or ingots? Metrological research on pre-contact Ecuadorian “axe-monies”, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49: 103976. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103976
Lago G., et al. 2023
Breaking sickles for shaping money. Testing the accuracy of weight-based fragmentation, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49: 103968. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103968
Bellintani P., Cardarelli A., Lago G., 2022
I ripostigli da ‘fonditore’ e il ‘tesoretto’ di Frattesina: aggiornamenti e considerazioni, West & East 5 (Monografie), 2022, pp. 63-101.
Lago, Di Renzoni 2021
Il Milione. The first 14 years of ERC funding to human past studies (SH6): an Italian perspective, EX NOVO Journal of Archaeology 6: in press.
Ialongo, Lago 2021
A small change revolution. Weight systems and the emergence of the first Pan-European money, Journal of Archaeological Science, 129. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105379
Lago 2020
Fragmentation of metal in Italian Bronze Age hoards: new insights from a quantitative analysis, Origini XLIV: 171-194. doi: 10.48235/1006
Cardarelli et al. 2017
Nuove ricerche nell’abitato della tarda età del Bronzo di Monte Croce Guardia (Arcevia - AN): scavi 2015-2016, Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, LXVII, pp. 321-380. doi: 10.32097/1011
Other publications:
Lago G., Arena A., Ialongo N., 2024
La frammentazione del metallo nei ripostigli del Bronzo tardo. Un caso studio dai Balcani occidentali, Volume in onore di Andrea Cardarelli, in print.
Lago G., Arena A., Scarano T., in print
Identità guerriera e armamento nel III e II millennio a. C., articolo in catalogo, in print.
MEDIA LINKS (interviews and online presentations)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW_io9MYuNA&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3AJSQ5_8IPlzBfdhiamxycqfDSyShQZ4Bc4zU5acwwjnqozy9Y0PFRRd0
https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-05-08/el-euro-de-la-edad-de-bronce.html?fbclid=IwAR2mLz2J_kdEqyZRIP6q-hzPcb1XZEVC_xpkgkSzFup2trt7g4QXva8S3c8
