Andrea CIPOLATO

EDUCATION

- Postdoctoral research fellowship - Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities (2023-2025)

Project PRIN 2022 PNRR CUP: H53D23010330001: Lo sfruttamento economico degli ambienti lagunari in Età Romana e nella Tarda Antichità: un’analisi interdisciplinare delle anfore per salsamenta e salse di pesce in Alto Adriatico fra produzione regionale ed importazione.

- Subject expert (Cultore della materia) in Classical Archaeology - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Department of Humanities (2023)

- PhD in Ancient Sciences - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities (2023)

Thesis: Anfore, contesti archeologici e data analysis: i flussi di anfore nell’Alto Adriatico tra età romana e VII secolo d.C.

- Team member CeSAV - Centro Studi Archeologici Venezia (2021)

- Research fellowship - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities (2019)

Project: La Portualità in epoca Romana, Tardo Antica e Alto Medievale nell'area di Venezia: Archeologia e Topografia di un Sito Polifocale. Anfore, Prodotti e Infrastrutture

- Postgraduate specialisation in Archaeological Heritage - SISBA, Universities of Venice, Udine, Trieste (2018)

 Thesis: Anfore in contesto. Contenitori da trasporto da scavi stratigrafici e da interventi di recupero nella Laguna Nord di Venezia: nuove prospettive di ricerca.

- MA in Ancient Sciences - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2015)

Thesis: Altino survey 2012: le anfore italiche, egeo-orientali e galliche.

- BA in Cultural Heritage – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2011)

Thesis: Nuove acquisizioni sulla via Annia.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Coordination and technical direction of excavations within archaeological research projects (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Aquileia - porto romano sponda orientale. Excavation campaigns 2017-2025 (scientific director prof. D. Cottica)

Voices of Venice. Anthro-Ecological Perspective on the Making of Medieval Europe. Archeologia Altomedievale a Torcello. Excavation campaigns 2017, 2018 (scientific director prof. D. Calaon)

- Team member in international archaeological research projects

Projecto Lixus-Garum (Marocco). Excavation campaign 2024, University of Cádiz, INSAP (scientific directors D. Bernal Casasola, M. Akbiri Alaoui)

Port Louis, Mauritius. An Archaeological History of a Tropical City (Mauritius). Survey campaign 2019, Ca' Foscari Univerity of Venice, Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund, Mauritius e Ministry of Culture -Republic of Mauritius (scientific director D. Calaon)

- Participation in national and international research projects

Coastal Lagoons and their Hidden Cultural Heritage: the exploitation of lagoonal environments in Roman Italy 

SHERDs – networkS in HelleEnistic and Roman meDiterranean – Making and Managing HiStory with Material Culture 

Interreg ADRION Adriatic-Ionian Programme APPRODI - From Ancient Maritime Routes to Eco-touristic Destinations

- Scientific curator of archaeological exhibitions

Fare la laguna, fare in laguna: comunità e risorse tra Lio Piccolo e Altino (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Bologna, National Archaeological Museum of Altino, Superintendency of Venice and Lagoon, Municipality of Cavallino Treporti, 2025-2026)

Vivere d'acqua. Archeologie tra Lio Piccolo e Altino (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, National Archaeological Museum of Altino, Superintendency of Venice and Lagoon, Municipality of Cavallino Treporti, 2019)

Altino prima di Venezia (National Archaeological Museum of Altino, 2014-2019)

- Freelance archaeologist (from 2013)

over 150 interventions including archaeological excavations, archaeological assistance, trial trenches, and Viarch reports, carried out in terrestrial and wetland contexts of North-Eastern Italy, with particular focus on the Venetian Lagoon.

- Consultant for ceramic materials, study and inventory of artefacts

for the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Municipality of Venice and Lagoon, and for ITALFERR (Italian State Railways Group)

LICENCES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Category B driving licence

Drone pilot certificate, OPEN A1/A3

Drone pilot certificate, CRO A2

RESEARCH FOCUS

I am a Classical archaeologist with over a decade of research and fieldwork experience, specialising in Roman and Early Medieval amphorae, and in the ancient economy of the Northern Adriatic. My expertise lies in the study of Adriatic productions, market systems, and patterns of supply and redistribution of goods, with a particular focus on the exploitation of coastal landscapes for harbour, commercial, and productive activities. By combining traditional ceramic analysis with advanced statistical modelling, I reconstruct economic scenarios grounded in evidence from extensive stratigraphic excavations in coastal and lagoon contexts. My international research experience includes participation in archaeological missions in Morocco and Mauritius, and collaborations with Superintendencies, museums, universities, and archaeological companies in Italy and abroad. I actively disseminate research outcomes through conferences, peer-reviewed articles, a monograph, exhibitions, and public lectures. I have organised training workshops, delivered academic lectures, co-supervised MA and postgraduate specialisation theses, and co-organised an international conference on the Roman economy of the Northern Adriatic regions.