Alessandro Panetta is PhD in “Historical geography for the valorisation of the historical-environmental heritage” (University of Genoa). He is actually post-doctoral research fellow at University of Genoa, involved both in the ANTIGONE project (Basque Country and Ligurian Apennines) and in another European research project, “IRIS – Inspiring rural heritage” (Jpi-CH), focused onand the heritage of rural and upland areas. He is Associate Researcher at the Laboratory of Alpine History (LabiSAlp – Mendrisio, Switzerland) and member of the Laboratory of Archaeology and Environmental History (cir-LASA – UniGe). Prior and after this PhD, which was focused on theory and practice of HistoriacalHistorical Archaeology, he has held research fellowships at the Universities of Sassari and Genoa, relating to the studyresearch on of rural societies in the post-classical era. His main research interests are historical archaeology, rural and landscape archaeology, uhistory of material culture and cultural biographies, topics to which he has devoted several articles, essays and speeches in national and international conferences.