GRAZIOSI, Paolo. Florence 2.11.1907 — Florence 24.5.1988. Italian Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of painter Giuseppe Graziosi (1879–1942). Studied from 1925 at Florence, graduated 1930. From 1936 taught at Università di Firenze, then as Professore di paletnologia e di antropologia in 1944-77 (ord. 1954). In 1939-53 also taught at Pisa. Participated in excavations in Italy and Africa, in 1954-60 also in India and Pakistan. Member of Accademia dei Lincei 1979.
Publications: “The Wooden Statue of Dezalik, a Kalash Divinity, Chitral, Pakistan”, Man 61, 1961, 149-151.
– Prehistoric Research in North-Western Punjab: Anthropological Research in Chitral. 8+236 p. ill. Italian expeditions to Karakorum (K2) and Hindu Kush 5. Leiden 1964.
– Also wrote on African and Italian palethnological questions, especially on prehistoric art.
Sources: M. Lorenzon in C. Smith, Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology. 2018; *bibliography by A. Vigliardi, Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 49, 1998, 5-41; treccani.it briefly; Italian Wikipedia.
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