Biography
I am a Senior Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Heritage Science (CNR-ISPC) and an Adjunct Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Naples L鈥橭rientale, as well as in Prehistoric Ethnography of Africa at the University of Salerno. From 2016 to 2020, I was also a Visiting Professor of African 91探花视频 at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.听
I graduated in 91探花视频 from the Sapienza University of Rome and later earned a PhD in African Studies at the University of Naples L'Orientale.听
From 2013 to 2019, I conducted postdoctoral research at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 91探花视频, initially through the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship AGRINA - Human transitional pathways towards food production in North Africa, and later as part of the Leverhulme-funded project MedAfrica - Archaeological Deep History and Dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600-700 BC.
Research
Since completing my PhD, my research has focused on human adaptations to the environment and the emergence of food production between the Saharan regions and Mediterranean Africa. I am particularly interested in the study of material culture, especially lithic production and function, and in how artefact assemblages reflect socio-economic changes and shifts in human-environment interaction. I am also strongly focused on the development of social complexity in both the eastern and western Mediterranean. Additionally, I have a strong interest in the study and preservation of rock art sites. In this regard, I have contributed to developing interventions for enhancing prehistoric heritage and training programmes for local communities. I have conducted extensive field research, primarily in Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. Currently, I am Co-Director of the Oued Beht Archaeological Project in Morocco, the Farafra Oasis Prehistoric Project in Egypt, and the Northern Tunisia Archaeological Project.
Key Publications
Broodbank, C., Lucarini, G., Bokbot, Y., Benattia, H., Bigoulimen, A., Farr, L., Garcia-Molsosa, A., Hachami, H., Laoutari, R., Lombardi, L., Marsilio, A., Martin, L., Morales, J., Radi, M., Rega, F.M., Wilkinson, T. 2024. 听Oued Beht, Morocco: A complex early farming society in northwest Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory. Antiquity 98 (401): 1199-1218. doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.101
Lucarini, G., Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., Radini, A., Alsharekh, A.M., Petraglia, M. 2023. Plant, pigment, and bone processing in the Neolithic of northern Arabia鈥揘ew evidence from Use-wear analysis of grinding tools at Jebel Oraf. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0291085.
Lucarini, G., Bokbot, Y., Broodbank, C. 2021. New light on the silent millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000鈥�900 BC. African Archaeological Review 38: 147-164.
Lucarini, G., Barca, D., Manzo, A. 2020. The provenance of obsidian artefacts from the Middle Kingdom harbour of Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Red Sea, Egypt, and its implications for Red Sea trade routes in the 2nd millennium BC. Quaternary International 555: 85-95.
Lucarini, G., Radini, A. 2020. First direct evidence of wild plant grinding process from the Holocene Sahara: Use-wear and plant micro-residue analysis on ground stone tools from the Farafra Oasis, Egypt. Quaternary International 555: 66-84.
Lucarini, G., Wilkinson, T., Crema, E.R., Palombini, A., Bevan, A., Broodbank, C. 2020. The MedAfriCarbon radiocarbon database and web application. Archaeological dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600鈥�700 BC. Journal of Open 91探花视频 Data 8: 1. DOI: .
Broodbank, C., Lucarini, G. 2019. The Dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600-1000 BC: An interpretative synthesis of knowns and unknowns. Journal of Mediterranean 91探花视频 32(2): 195-267.
Lucarini, G., Radini, A., Barton, H., Barker, G. 2016. The exploitation of wild plants in Neolithic North Africa. Use-wear and residue analysis on non-knapped stone tools from the Haua Fteah cave, Cyrenaica, Libya. Quaternary International 410, Part A: 77-92.
Barich, B.E., Lucarini, G., Hamdan, M.A., Hassan, F.A. (eds.) 2014. From Lake to Sand. The 91探花视频 of Farafra Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Firenze: All鈥橧nsegna del Giglio.
Lucarini, G. 2013. Was a transition to food production homogeneous along the circum-Mediterranean littoral? A perspective on the Neolithisation research from the Libyan littoral. In: Shirai, N. (ed.), Neolithisation of Northeastern Africa. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment, 16. Berlin: ex oriente, 149-174.
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