Late Bronze Age archaeology

Un habitat de l’âge du Bronze à Castidetta-Pozzone (Sartène)

by Kewin Peche-Quilichini

Co-authored with J. Cesari & P. Nebbia
Stantari, 29, 2012, pp. 55-56

La maison 6 de Cuciurpula (Sorbollano - Serra-di-Scopamena) et l'émergence des villages "ouverts"

by Kewin Peche-Quilichini

Stantari, 29, 2012, pp. 64-65

Breve aproximación al conocimiento del yacimiento arqueológico de Closos de Can Gaià

by David Javaloyas Molina

Draft only.
Published in: Prehistoria de las Islas Baleares. Registro arqueológico y Evolución social Antes de la Edad del Hierro.

Prehistory of the Balearic Islands Archaeological Record and Social Evolution before the Iron Age
Coordinador y Editor Víctor M. Guerrero Ayuso
BAR International Series 1690. 2007

Breve estudio de los principales aspectos arqueológicos del yacimiento arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce "Els... more Breve estudio de los principales aspectos arqueológicos del yacimiento arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce "Els Closos de Can Gaià"

Más información en: www.closos.org

Más que una casa. Los navetiformes de la Edad del Bronce Balear

by David Javaloyas Molina

Draft only.
Published in: En Belarte, C. (Ed.) “El espacio doméstico y la organización de la sociedad en la protohistoria del Mediterráneo occidental (Ier milenio aC). ArqueoMediterrània vol. 11, Tarragona: ICAC. ISBN: 978-84-936769-1-9

Resumen

Tradicionalmente los navetiformes, el edificio más común en los asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce... more Resumen

Tradicionalmente los navetiformes, el edificio más común en los asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce en Mallorca y Menorca, se han interpretado como casas. Sin embargo, estas visiones han fallado a la hora de considerar las principales características de estas construcciones. Entre éstas encontramos una prolongada ocupación a lo largo de varios siglos, una cambiante división espacial interna, diferentes visibilidades y accesos del exterior al interior así como diferentes actividades realizadas en el interior.
Se defiende que estos edificios no deben entenderse como una estructura física estática en la que la gente vivía sino que eran un elemento esencial en la configuración de la vida social de esas comunidades. Se propone que los navetiformes tuvieron un papel activo y cambiante en la constitución de los grupos domésticos y las relaciones entre los grupos que conformaban la comunidad. En este artículo se replantean los conceptos de casa, espacio público y espacio doméstico en relación con los navetiformes partiendo de la premisa de que son problemáticos y tienen diferentes significados en diferentes lugares y  momentos.

Abstract

Traditionally navetiformes, the most common construction in the settlements of Mallorca and Minorca during the Bronze Age, have been interpreted as regular houses. However, these views have failed to consider properly the main characteristics of these constructions. These include their often extending long-term occupation, over several centuries, a dynamic internal spatial division, inside/outside visibility and access as well as a range of activities carried out indoors. We argue that these buildings should not be seen as a static physical structure where the
people lived but that they were an essential element in shaping the social life of those communities. We propose that the navetiformes had an active and changing role in the constitution of domestic groups and in the relationships between the groups making up the community.
In this paper we want to rethink the concepts of house, domestic and public space in relation
to these navetiformes, because are problematic and have multiple meanings in any culture and time.

THE MYTH OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY

by stanley wilkin

Part of a larger projected piece.

This work is part of a larger projected piece examining the nature of present society through the past and in the... more This work is part of a larger projected piece examining the nature of present society through the past and in the process critiqueing Classical Greek importance to the present day.

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Past Times, Changing Fortunes: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2010' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Ι. Μόσχος, Αχαΐα. Ιστορικό και Αρχαιολογικό περίγραμμα. Προϊστορικοί χρόνοι, στο Α. Βλαχόπουλος (επιμ.), Αρχαιολογία - Πελοπόννησος, Εκδόσεις Μέλισσα, Αθήνα 2012, 300-307.

by Ioannis Moschos

The Multiple Temporalities of a Burial Monument: The Tumulus at Hrib

by Adrienne Frie

Published in Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology 4(1): 129-143 (May 2012)
Copyright ©2012 by Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology

Tumuli are often analyzed as a coherent whole in the hope of discerning patterns that indicate social processes... more Tumuli are often analyzed as a coherent whole in the hope of discerning patterns that indicate social processes inhered in the monument. However, in the search for patterning too often the mound is analytically flattened, and examined as if it was created all at once with a coherent plan. In the following, I will focus on the tumulus at Hrib, an Iron Age tumulus in the Bela krajina region of Slovenia, and undertake a multiscalar analysis that considers temporal distinctions, interment ritual, grave goods, and gender to draw more nuanced conclusions about the social activities that led to the formation of this tumulus. The first level of analysis is the scale of individual ritual, where choices about how to appropriately dispose of and adorn the body are negotiated. Second is the social context of death and burial, which takes place at an intra-generational scale – that is, how death may resonate with the living community, and how the social relations of the living are affected by death. The final scale is the consideration of the tumulus as a whole at a multi-generational scale, and how cemeteries are places with continuous social impact, even when distinct memories of those interred have faded. This shift in the scale of analysis of the tumulus at Hrib illuminates that social distinctions were marked according to an external/internal binary, where material culture and social practices, including grave goods and funerary ritual, expressed social differences internally, while the external appearance of the mound projected unity.

R. Jung – M. Mehofer – E. Pernicka, Metal Exchange in Italy from the Middle to the Final Bronze Age (14th – 11th cent. BCE), in: Philip P. Betancourt/Susan C. Ferrence (Hrsg.), Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why, Prehistory Monographs 29 (Philadelphia 2011), 231–248.

by Mathias Mehofer

A copy of the file can be requested via mathias.mehofer@univie.ac.at

The supply and interregional exchange of metal in the Italian Bronze Age is much discussed. Distri - bution maps of... more The supply and interregional exchange of metal in the Italian Bronze Age is much discussed. Distri - bution maps of bronze objects, the classical tool of such studies, show their geographical distribution as it is known from archaeological excavations or chance finds. However, many studies have shown that concentrations of specific types in certain regions and their absence in others are not necessarily representative for the areas in which they were made and/or used. Apart from chance finds (e.g., in industrialized and densely populated regions), ancient customs regulating the deposition of bronze objects may have acted as filters for the appearance of certain types in the archaeological record (cf. Hansen 1994; Maraszek 2006). Distribution maps thus can provide only indications for possible production regions of those types.
While the find location of an object is the place of its deposition (intentional or not) and may also be the place of its last use, metal analysis offers a different kind of information. It allows conclusions regarding the provenance of the raw material used for its production, if comparative analytical data from ore deposits are available. In combination with the types of the objects and their distribution areas, analytical results can be further used to infer the production regions of different types. In this study we present some preliminary results of a research project entitled “Dissemination of War Technology in the Mediterranean at the End of the 2nd Millennium B.C.—or Why the Bronzesmith Had to Have Some Knowledge about Fighting.” This project is financially supported by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), which is gratefully acknowledged

To What Extent Was Piracy A Problem In The Late Bronze Age?

by David Matzliach

Unpublished Long Essay

An investigation into the origins of Piracy and its effects of the

Late Bronze Age Mediterranean World An investigation into the origins of Piracy and its effects of the

Late Bronze Age Mediterranean World

Бронзовый гравированный умбон из Западной Грузии // Международная научная конференция «Археология, Этнология, Фольклористика Кавказа», Сборник кратких содержаний докладов, Тбилиси-Гори-Батуми, 27-30 сентября 2010 года. стр. 262-264

by Ana Cheishvili

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Of Troughs and Tuyères: The archaeology of the N5 Charlestown Bypass' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Drinking Vessels in Tombs—A Cultic Connection

by Anne Marie Carstens

A simulation of the Neolithic transition in the Indus valley

by Aurangzeb Khan

"1110.1091v3.pdf" is the final accepted version.

Le site de La Rochette à Mauron (Morbihan, France) : les multiples occupations d'un promontoire

by Klet Donnart

TINEVEZ J.-Y., QUESNEL L., MARCOUX N., DONNART K., BARDEL V., GAUTIER M., BERNARD V., FONTUGNE M., VAN DER PLICHT J. et OBERLIN C. (2011) - Le site de La Rochette à Mauron (Morbihan) : les multiples occupations d’un promontoire, Revue Archéologique de l’Ouest, n° 28, p.71-148.

Découvert par prospection aérienne en 1992, le site de La Rochette révèle un ensemble de cinq fossés barrant un relief... more Découvert par prospection aérienne en 1992, le site de La Rochette révèle un ensemble de cinq fossés barrant un relief de promontoire dominant la vallée de l’Yvel. Face à l’indigence du matériel archéologique datant, dix-sept datations par le radiocarbone viennent étayer l’attribution chronoculturelle des quatre principales occupations mises en évidence. Une première fréquentation, au Néolithique ancien, se résume à cinq foyers en cuvette groupés au nord-est du site. Au Bronze final, le large fossé interrompu constitue un imposant barrage très structuré abritant une série de petits bâtiments régulièrement disposés en arc de cercle. Le premier âge du Fer est marqué par l’implantation d’une palissade sur laquelle s’adossent de petits bâtiments et un large fossé ceinturant la pointe du promontoire au sud. Après un hiatus de plusieurs siècles, la partie sud est réinvestie par une imposante enceinte en bois protégeant une maison sur poteau. L’ensemble est bien daté (radiocarbone et dendrochronologie) du haut Moyen Âge, fin VIIe-VIIIe siècle apr. J.-C.

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The site of la Rochette was discovered by aerial photography in 1992. Due to a lack of good dating material, seventeen radiocarbon dates contribute to the chronocultural determination of the four principal occupation phases revealed on the site. The first traces of early Neolithic occupation are limited to five shallow hearths grouped on the north-east of the site. During the late Bronze Age, the wide interrupted ditch forms a well structured fortification, protecting behind its inner earthen rampart a series of small buildings placed in an arc. The early Iron Age is marked by the construction of a palisade backed by small wooden buildings and by the excavation of a wide ditch enclosing the southern end of the promontory. After a gap of several centuries, the southern part of the site is re-occupied by a huge wooden enclosure protecting a post-build house. The whole is precisely dated, by radiocarbon and dendrochronology, to the Early Mediaeval period, late VIIth-early VIIIth century AD.

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Chapple, R. M. 2012 'Corrstown: A Coastal Community. Excavations of a Bronze Age village in Northern Ireland: Review' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

L’insediamento protostorico di Monte Cimino, in: Archeotuscia a. II, n. 3, 2011, pp. 5-6

by Francesco di Gennaro

La bassa valle del Tevere nel Primo Ferro. Formazione degli abitati e avvicendamento di assetti territoriali, in: Preistoria e protostoria in Etruria IX, Milano 2010, vol. I, pp. 299-309

by Francesco di Gennaro

Co-authored with A. Amoroso

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Creative Minds: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2009' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

The bronze disk of “A Urdiñeira” hoard A Gudiña, Ourense, Spain

by Beatriz Comendador Rey

Co-authored with Aaron Lackinger.
Conservação e técnicas de análise para o estudo e salvaguarda do património metálico.
AuCORRE PTDC/HIS-HIS/114698/2009
Metalurgia das Idades do Bronze e do Ferro 29 de Março de 2011
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisboa
On-line http://www.aucorre.org/project/pdf/291730.pdf