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Middle Asia Archaeology, Central Asia Archaeology, SH8_3 - Cultural studies and theory, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage, architectural heritage, SH6_3 - Archaeology of early literate societies and early civilizations, SH6_2 - Prehistoric archaeology, archaeology of non-literate societies

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Employment (7)

CNR ISPC: Milano, IT

2022-11-02 to present | Researcher (ISPC - Institute of Heritage Science)
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Gian Luca Bonora

Makhambet Utemisov West Kazakhstan State University: Oral, KZ

2019-03-27 to 2019-04-25 | Visiting Professor (Dept of History)
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Institute of History - ONLUS: Vicenza, IT

2014-06 to 2016-12 | Co-Director and Scientific Researcher of the Project “Along the Silk Way: Turkmenistan”
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Gian Luca Bonora

Academy of Art University : Astana, KZ

2015-11 to 2015-11 | Visiting Professor
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Gian Luca Bonora

“S. Toraygyrov” State University : Pavlodar, KZ

2015-09 to 2015-09 | Visiting Professor
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Gian Luca Bonora

"L.N. Gumilev" Eurasian National University: Astana, KZ

2012-03 to 2015-07 | Visiting Professor (Department of History)
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Gian Luca Bonora

Institute of History - ONLUS: Vicenza, IT

2008-01 to 2011-12 | Co-Director and Scientific Researcher of the Project “Religion and Society in Kazakhstan. The study of Institutions and religious practices in the formation of a cultural identity”
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Education and qualifications (4)

Ministry of the Education, University and Scientific Research: Rome, IT

2017-03-27 to present | Professor of Central Asian Cultures
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Gian Luca Bonora

Università degli Studi di Bologna: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, IT

2007-10 to 2009-09 | POST-DOCTORAL GRANT in Archaeology. Title of the Project: “The cultural transition between the Bronze and the Iron Age in the Syrdarya Delta among nomadic and sedentary communities”. (Dipartimento di Archeologia)
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Gian Luca Bonora

Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale: Napoli, Campania, IT

2001-11 to 2004-10 | PHILOSOPHIA DOCTOR, Doctoral Thesis on Iran, Turkey and Central Asia: “Archaeological Perspectives in the Linguistic Reconstruction of Protohistorical Baluchistan”. (Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici )
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University of Bologna: Bologna, IT

1991 to 1999 | MASTER DEGREE (LAUREA): Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Bologna. Degree thesis on Palaeoethnology: “The Chalcolithic collective burials in Middle Asia”.
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Non-destructive examination of ancient vitreous materials from Southwest Asia: Synchrotron computed tomography at the BEATS beamline of SESAME

Journal of Cultural Heritage
2025-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2025.01.011
Contributors: Gianluca Iori; Philipp Hans; Neva Maria Elisabetta Stucchi; Latif Ullah Khan; Abdellatif Saadaldin; Elena Possenti; Giulia Franceschin; Samah Al Khasoneh; Gian Luca Bonora; Gonca Dardeniz
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The Bronze Age Graveyard of Adji Kui (Margiana, Turkmenistan). Catalogue of the Graves

ISMEO
2024 | Book | Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
ISBN: 978-88-8080-658-5
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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The Bronze Age Graveyard of Adji Kui (Margiana, Turkmenistan). Catalogue of the Graves

2024-01-01 | Book
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR

Anni di insegnamento nella futura metropoli Astana (Kazakhstan): i cantieri e il freddo, i banditi e la solitudine, la pizza, e me stesso

Quaderni Asiatici. Rivista di Cultura e Studi sull’Asia
2023 | Journal article | Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Part of ISSN: 2038-9795
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

A ‘Shoehorn’ at Altyn Depe: A Biased Application of the Urban Revolution Model of Vere Gordon Childe (1950)

2023-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1484/j.jua.5.135661
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/473930
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Anni di insegnamento nella futura metropoli Astana (Kazakhstan): i cantieri e il freddo, i banditi e la solitudine, la pizza, e me stesso

2023-01-01 | Journal article
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/473943
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR

Late 3rd Millennium BC Ritual Behaviours in the Adji Kui Burial Ground

2023-01-01 | Conference paper
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/473945
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Lock-shaped Stone Handbags (Pierres Ansées) from Central Asia. Typology, Distribution, and New Findings

Cultures in Contact Central Asia as Focus of Trade, Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Transmission
2022 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Part of ISBN: 978-3-447-11880-4
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Lock-shaped Stone Handbags (Pierres Ansées) from Central Asia. Typology, Distribution, and New Findings

2022-01-01 | Conference paper
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/473953
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The architecture of the Early Iron Age funerary barrows in Central Kazakhstan

2022-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.31489/2022hph3/222-232
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/473952
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A General Overview of the Oxus Civilization Graveyard of Adji Kui in Margiana (South Turkmenistan)

East & West
2021 | Journal article | Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Part of ISSN: 0012-8376
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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A General Overview of the Oxus Civilization Graveyard of Adji Kui in Margiana (South Turkmenistan)

2021-01-01 | Journal article
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/474008
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Genomic Analysis of 18th-Century Kazakh Individuals and Their Oral Microbiome

2021-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/biology10121324
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/474010
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Seals from the Adji Kui Burials

2021-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.31600/1817-6976-2021-32-55-68
HANDLE: 20.500.14243/474016
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A Cigar-shaped Stone Artefact with a Grooved Top from Western Kazakhstan: Description, Analogies and Remarks

Tales of Three Worlds. Archaeology and Beyond: Asia, Italy, Africa. A Tribute to Sandro Salvatori
2020 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

Exploring Central Asia with the Locals: Maurizio Tosi in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

BULLETIN OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES
2020 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora; Simone Mantellini
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Gian Luca Bonora

Grave ADJ1.F from the Farmhouse of Adji Kui 1 (Margiana, Turkmenistan): Description, and Preliminary Analysis of an Oxus Civilisation Funerary Context

NATURE – MAN – SOCIETY: FROM PAST TO PRESENT. Collection of papers in honor of Nadezhda Dubova’s jubilee
2020 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

Indumenti, copricapi e tappeti dalle steppe dell’Eurasia nell’età del Bronzo e del Ferro (II e I millennio a.C.). Analisi dell’identità culturale attraverso le scoperte archeologiche di tessuti

Identità e storia dei tessuti d’Asia. Atti del convegno 25-26 ottobre 2019 Spazio delle culture “Khaled al-Asaad” Museo delle Culture, Milano
2020 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-88-9410-642-8
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

Living in the Inner Syrdarya Delta during the Second Half of the 1st Millennium BCE: Villages, Towns, Funerary Complexes and Symbolic Sites of the Chirik Rabat Culture

Living in a Territory. Four Lectures from a Workshop Held in Naples, 16 May 2017
2020 | Conference paper | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-8-86687-1897
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

The Oxus Civilization and the Northern Steppes

The World of the Oxus Civilization
2020 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-1-138-72287-3
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

Theoretical concepts and practices in the study of the sacred landscape of Eurasia - Теоретические концепции и практика в изучении сакрального ландшафта Евразии

САКРАЛЬНЫЙ ЛАНДШАФТ САРЫАРКИ. Коллективная монография
2020 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-601-337-412-3
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

КУРИЛЬНИЦА ИЗ МОГИЛЬНИКА АДЖИ-КУИ (ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЯ ОКСА) В МАРГИАНЕ

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL CULTURES OF CENTRAL ASIA (THE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTION OF URBANIZED AND CATTLE-BREEDING SOCIETIES)
2020 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.31600/978-5-907298-09-5-130-133
Contributors: International Association for Mediterranean and East Studies, Rome, Italy; Gian Luca Bonora; Gabriele Rossi Osmida; Independent Researcher; Anna Cengia; Independent Researcher
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Хроника полевых исследований 2018-2020 гг - Chronicle of field studies 2018-2020

САКРАЛЬНЫЙ ЛАНДШАФТ САРЫАРКИ. Коллективная монография
2020 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-601-337-412-3
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora; Daniyar Tleugabulov; Azamat Dokumbaev
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The Oxus Civilization and the Northern Steppes

2020-01-01 | Book chapter
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Lock-shaped stone hand-bags (pierre ansées) from Central and Middle asia: typology, distribution and new findings

2019 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.31600/978-5-907053-34-2-57-58
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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The Cultural Persian and Achaemenid Evidence in the Inner Syrdarya Delta

Ceramics and the Archaeological Achaemenid Horizon Near East, Iran and Central Asia
2019 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft
Part of ISBN: 978-88-6719-181-9
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

Volga, Ural and the Northern Region of the Caspian Sea in the Classical Sources

ВЕСТНИК ЗКГУ - Bulletin of the M. Utemisov West Kazakhstan State University of Ural’sk (Kazakhstan)
2019 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Gian Luca Bonora
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Gian Luca Bonora

The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

Science
2019-09-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7487
Part of ISSN: 0036-8075
Part of ISSN: 1095-9203
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Gian Luca Bonora

Inner Syr Darya Delta. Archaeological Sites during the Second Half of the 1st millennium BCE: an Analysis of the Settlement Pattern

Christoph Baumer and Mirko Novák (eds.) Urban Cultures of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the Karakhanids. Learnings and conclusions from new archaeological investigations and discoveries. Proceedings of the First International Congress on Central Asian Archaeology held at the University of Bern, 4–6 February 2016
2019-05 | Conference paper
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Gian Luca Bonora

Noli oblivisci: ALZHIR

Quaderni Asiatici. Rivista di cultura e studi sull’Asia, 125,
2019-03 | Journal article
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Gian Luca Bonora

The Diffusion of Islam in the Eastern Dasht-I Kipchak According to the Materials from Bozok

Nations and religions of the Eurasia
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14258/nreur(2018)1-02
Part of ISSN: 2542-2332
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Gian Luca Bonora

A General Revision of the Chronology of the Tagisken North Burial Ground

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
2018-11-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1163/15700577-12341334
Part of ISSN: 0929-077X
Part of ISSN: 1570-0577
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Gian Luca Bonora

I più antichi tatuaggi dalle tombe gelate dell’Altai - The Most Ancient Tattoos from the Frozen Tombs of Altai

Quaderni Asiatici. Rivista di cultura e studi sull’Asia, 123, 35 - 60.
2018-09 | Journal article
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Gian Luca Bonora

Lapis Lazuli Bead Making at Shahr-i Sokhta. Interpreting Craft Production in a Urban Community of the 3rd Millennium bc, edited by Massimo Vidale and Alessandra Lazzari

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
2017-12-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1163/15700577-12341321
Part of ISSN: 0929-077X
Part of ISSN: 1570-0577
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Gian Luca Bonora

Astana. A Cultural Guide to the Capital of Kazakhstan

CLUEB
2017-06 | Book
ISBN: 978-88-491-5549-5
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Gian Luca Bonora

Sultan Sanjar e il suo mausoleo a Merv (Turkmenistan)

Quaderni Asiatici. Rivista di cultura e studi sull'Asia, n. 117, marzo 2017: 27 - 50.
2017-03 | Journal article
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Gian Luca Bonora

English Translation of "Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture", Simone Mantellini (ed.), Oxbow Books, 2103

2016 | Translation
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Gian Luca Bonora

Guide to Turkmenistan. History, Architecture and Faith in the Desert, Torino, Umberto Allemandi & C. editore

2016 | Book
ISBN: 978-88-422-2421-1
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Gian Luca Bonora

Turkmenistan. Histories of a Country, Cities and a Desert, Torino, Umberto Allemandi & C. editore (Michele Bernardini, Gian Luca Bonora, Giusto Traina editors)

2016 | Book
ISBN: 978-88-422-2422-8
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“Evolution of Early Urban Societies in Prehistory”, Michele Bernardini, Gian Luca Bonora, Giusto Traina (edited by) Turkmenistan. Histories of a Country, Cities and a Desert, Torino, Allemandi Editore, 2016: 15 – 31

2016 | Book chapter
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“Glossary”, in S. Mantellini (ed.) Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture, Oxbow Books, 2103: xxv-xxxii.

2016 | Book chapter
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Gian Luca Bonora

“Le ricerche archeologiche nella Repubblica del Kazakhstan negli anni dell'Indipendenza (1991 – 2015)”, Clara Bulfoni, Filippo Fasulo, Chiara Piccinini (a cura di) Le arti nella storia e nella società dell'Asia. Arts in Asian History and Society, Asiatica Ambrosiana 7, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Bulzoni editore, Milano: 193 – 218.

2016 | Book chapter
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Gian Luca Bonora

La nascita dell'irrigazione artificiale in Asia Centrale. Le più antiche evidenze di canali, pozzi e depositi artificiali dal Neolitico al Medioevo

Quaderni Asiatici. Rivista di cultura e studi sull'Asia, n. 115, settembre 2016: 5 – 22.
2016-09 | Journal article
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Gian Luca Bonora

Review - Andrey Astaf'ev, Neolit i Eneolit poluostrova Mangyshlak. Astana: Filial Instituta arkheologii im. A.Kh. Margulana v gorode Astana; 2014.

Ancient Civilisations from Scythia to Siberia 21 (2015): 369 – 379.
2015 | Book review
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Gian Luca Bonora

Review - D.R. Harris, Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia. An Environmental-Archaeological Study. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2010.

Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXII, ¾, mei-augustus 2015: 495-500
2015 | Book review
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Gian Luca Bonora

On the use of tokens and seals along the Kopet Dag piedmont (6000 – 3000 BCE)

Paléorient
2014 | Journal article
ISSN: 0153-9345
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Археологиялық терминдердің мультилингвистикалық сөздігі (Қазақ - Орыс – Ағылшын – Итальян). Мультилингвистичесий словарь археологических терминов (Казахский - Русский – Английский – Итальянский). Multilingual Dictionary of Archaeological Terms (Kazakh – Russian – English – Italian), Dizionario Multilingue dei termini archeologici (in kazakho – russo – inglese – italiano), Л.Н. Гумилев атындағы ЕҰУ, Астана, 2014 (in collaboration with Gulzat Biljalova, Serghey Jarygin and Michele Minardi - Біләлова Г.Д., Ярыгин С.А., Минарди М.)

2014 | Book
ISBN: 978-601-301-116-5.
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“Updating Report on the Prehistorical Human Settlement in the Syrdarya Alluvial Plain", C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky and B. Genito (eds. in chief) B. Cerasetti (ed.)“My Life is like the Summer Rose” Maurizio Tosi e l’Archeologia come modo di vivere Papers in honour of Maurizio Tosi for his 70th birthday, BAR, Oxford 2014: 31 - 47

2014 | Book chapter
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Gian Luca Bonora

The Middle Chalcolithic in Southern Turkmenistan and the Archaeological Record of Ilgynly Depe” in Cameron A. Petrie (ed.) Ancient Iran and its Neighbours. Local Developments and Long-Range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC, The British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series III, Oxbow Books, Oxford and Oakville: 145 - 170 (in collaboration with M. Vidale)

2013 | Book chapter
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Goa Made: an Archaeological Discovery, edited by Massimo Vidale, Claudio Giardino and Gian Luca Bonora, Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2012.

2012 | Book
ISBN: 978-88-8265-735-2
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