Pietro Romanèlli (born in

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in 1889 – died in

in 1981) was an Italian

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

.A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" ''StRom'' 30 (1982), 358–65. (necrology) Born in

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, he carried out excavations at

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, the

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in Rome, at the ''

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'' and at

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. Among his students was the Roman archaeologist and researcher at Ostia Antica Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003).

Necrology

* A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" ''StRom'' 30 (1982), 358–65.

Sources

Fabrizio Vistoli, s.v.
"Pietro Romanelli"
', in ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', vol. 88, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2017, pp. 221–224.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Romanelli, Pietro 1889 births 1981 deaths Italian archaeologists 20th-century Italian archaeologists