Papers by Luca Bombardieri
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Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes
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Levant 55/2, 2023
A focused analysis of provenanced and unprovenanced Middle Bronze Age stamps from the Kouris Vall... more A focused analysis of provenanced and unprovenanced Middle Bronze Age stamps from the Kouris Valley in Cyprus is presented in this article. Stylistic aspects are investigated, along with possible external prototypes on which they may have been based, as well as their possible multiple uses and functions. Finally, the limited evidence from Middle Bronze Age contexts in Cyprus is discussed in relation to the very different ways in which foreign influences and differing trajectories affected the move toward increasingly complex societies, and how these may have influenced sealing practices on the island.
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Y. Voskos, D. Kloukinas, E, Mantzourani (eds.), Prehistoric Lifeways in Cyprus from the Early Holocene to the Middle Bronze Age, 2023
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Bullettin of ASOR, 2023
A number of recent studies have devoted attention to the archaeology of burial and its implicatio... more A number of recent studies have devoted attention to the archaeology of burial and its implications in Bronze Age Cyprus (Keswani 2004, 2005; Knapp 2018; Webb 2018). This article analyzes some aspects of space negotiation between settlement and funerary areas during the Early and Middle Bronze Age. After briefly discussing current views on this subject, it will focus on specific cases of intramural burial from a set of contemporary contexts and then provide a possible interpretation of this unusual funerary practice. Our sources of evidence for unusual burials in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus are three-fold: burial contexts and locations within inhabited spaces, associated assemblages, and human remains. Each of these will be discussed, before asking whether these data, and their anthropological and ethnographic counterparts, might suggest practices associated with necrophobia in prehistoric Cyprus.
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P. Greenwood (a cura di), Ars Molendi. Macine e Macinazione: una tradizione antica, 2023
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Documenta Praehistorica, Nov 25, 2021
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A previously unpublished marble fragment from the Cesnola collection at the Turin University Muse... more A previously unpublished marble fragment from the Cesnola collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography bears an incomplete Phoenician inscription, a dedication to Eshmun-Melqart considered lost since 1869 (CIS I 26). The inscription allows to interpret the object bearing the dedication as a votive stone bowl from the late Classical Phoenician sanctuary of Kition-Batsalos in Cyprus, and it provides the opportunity to retrace the history of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities at the University Museum of Turin.
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Editoriale Artemide srl, 2017
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A well-known anthropomorphic asksos of a seated male, first described in 1981 as an enthroned ith... more A well-known anthropomorphic asksos of a seated male, first described in 1981 as an enthroned ithyphallic figure, belongs to the archaeological collection of the Pierides Foundation Museum in Larnaka In this paper, after briefly describing the terracotta as an object per se, I will move to analyze two major opposite interpretative schemes firstly proposed by Desmond Morris and Vassos Karageorghis and then by Naomi Hamilton. Although the lack of clear provenance makes contextual analysis more difficult, we might rely on three different sources of evidence in order to interpret the Pierides terracotta: figurative documents, ethnographic counterparts and literary evidence. As far as the first set of documents is concerned, the archaeological record suggests that while there is no tradition of male figures in Chalcolithic Cyprus, seated figures do have a place in the iconography of the period and they are mostly connected with pregnancy and birth-giving, such as at Middle Chalcolithic K...
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Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, 2019
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With contributions by Erika Albertini, Marialucia Amadio, Valentina Bonora, Alessandro Conti, Giu... more With contributions by Erika Albertini, Marialucia Amadio, Valentina Bonora, Alessandro Conti, Giulia Dionisio, Francesca Dolcetti, Mariaelena Fedi, Marco Fioravanti, Lidia Fiorini, Martina Fissore, Peter Gasson, Carole McCartney, Martina Monaco, Giulia Muti, Daniele Redamante, David S. Reese, Alessanda Saggio, Caterina Scirè Calabrisotto, Grazia Tucci, Elena Vassio, Jennifer M. Webb and Mari Yamasaki
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In order to perform a physico-chemical multitechnique characterization, 26 fragments of Red Polis... more In order to perform a physico-chemical multitechnique characterization, 26 fragments of Red Polished ware from the archaeological survey in the Kouris river valley (Limassol district, Cyprus) have been analyzed. Despite the gloss-like macroscopic aspect of the potsherd surfaces, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) morphological observation revealed traces of mechanical polishing on the surfaces and the lack of a slip. Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) elemental analyses in both scan and map modes confirmed the absence of differentiation between body and surface composition. Chemometric evaluation on EDX bodies data showed a lack of sub-classification. Mineralogical patterns, obtained by X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD) analysis revealed great variability among samples and the presence of amphiboles in 14 sherds, whose identification as horneblende and riebeckite was confirmed by petrographic examination. The unusual presence of these minerals in a ceramic ware fits with the Kouris valley ...
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Levant, 2020
Abandonment sequences at Middle Bronze Age Erimi have been examined using integrated stratigraphi... more Abandonment sequences at Middle Bronze Age Erimi have been examined using integrated stratigraphic analysis and high-resolution microarchaeological techniques, with the aim of investigating the environmental processes and socio-cultural practices that impacted on the abandonment of buildings and settlement areas. The data revealed the occurrence of two distinct processes: gradual structural degradation and rapid destruction by a fire event. Destruction sequences within burnt buildings were examined to identify the temperatures to which sediments had been exposed and to reconstruct the conflagration event. Resulting data are discussed in the context of Middle Bronze Age Cyprus, in a preliminary consideration of the ideological implications of the identified abandonment practices.
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Radiocarbon, 2017
After decades of collaborative experience between archaeologists and radiocarbon scientists, with... more After decades of collaborative experience between archaeologists and radiocarbon scientists, with the aim at producing radiocarbon dates capable of answering the most various research questions, it is now widely recognized that an accurate sampling strategy is the cornerstone of a solid 14C-based chronology. In this paper, we discuss the sampling criteria required to obtain good quality 14C data within a challenging archaeological context like the Bronze Age site of Erimi Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol, Cyprus). Following a dedicated sampling strategy, in the productive complex of the settlement, charcoal samples were collected from secure contexts according to stratigraphic examination of excavated strata and analysis of associated features and material culture. Micromorphology was also applied for a more accurate interpretation of individual deposits and reconstruction of depositional and post-depositional processes. In the necropolis, bone samples were selected among the fragmentar...
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Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018
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Journal of the History of Collections, 2017
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Papers by Luca Bombardieri
https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-799-2/
The volume discusses this main topic by presenting 13 essays, which cover a variety of themes and involve a large chronological horizon from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine, Late Antique and Medieval periods. Essays have been grouped according to particular issues they address. Papers of Part 1 examine cultural forms and social practices of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cypriot communities, by taking in consideration productive, economic and ritual aspects. Papers in Part 2 investigates the rituality and materiality in Archaic Cyprus and analyse aspects of social transformations in Hellenistic and Late Antique Cyprus. Papers in the final section, Part 3, deal with methodological issues concerning conservation and valorisation strategies and geo-archaeological methods applied to the analysis of ancient islandscapes.
Please, find more details in the attached file. For detailed information and updates, you can also visit the event’s website (http://islandia2018.jimdo.com) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Islandia2018/).
If you would like to participate, please fill in and send, no later than the 20th May 2018, the attached application form to islandia@unito.it. The application form requires personal data and an abstract of no more than 300 words and a title. Papers should last for 15 minutes. The official language of the meeting is English. The provisional program of the conference will be announced by the end of June. We intend to publish the papers presented at the meeting. Further information about the publication will be provided via email and during the event.
Dr Luca Bombardieri (Università di Torino), Marialucia Amadio, Francesca Dolcetti and Giulia Muti (Italian Archaeological Project at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou)
From Space to Placemaking. Multi-scalar approaches to Middle Bronze Age Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou, Cyprus
Recent studies in Cypriot urbanism have stressed the need of developing interdisciplinary data-sets to analyse the history and organisation of proto-urban and urban centres from diachronic, spatial and structural perspectives, and to pay particular attention to the analysis of communal and non-elite areas, since these are recognised as fundamental in the examination of development of social and cultural identities and roles (Manning et al. 2014, 9; Fisher 2014b). Middle Bronze Age Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (ca. 2100-1650 BC), offers a good case-study to investigate this topic, as it includes a range of key contexts to analyse social, cultural and economic developments of the recent Cypriot prehistory, and to enhance the analysis and definition of the formative period of urbanisation in Cyprus. The ancient site of Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou was first identified in 2007 as result of a survey project aimed at outlining the landscape use and sequence of ancient occupation in the middle and lower valley of river Kouris, in the southern region of Cyprus. Significant material evidence and topographic characteristics have encouraged intra-site analysis (Bombardieri 2017). The project, which is conducted by the University of Torino, Italy, has the principal aim of examining the role of this settlement in the formative process of urbanisation in Bronze Age Cyprus, by applying an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach based on the synergy between standard field practices and integrated scientific analyses, including micromorphology, spectroscopic and geochemical techniques on deposits and artefacts, archaeobotany, paleodiet, osteological examination of human and animal bones, and digital analysis and visualization.