Cyprian Broodbank

Biographic Data

ID976678
NAMECyprian Broodbank
GIVEN NAMESCyprian
FAMILY NAMEBroodbank
SIGNATUREBROODBANK C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0002-2176-9666
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS398
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Expanding Oued Beht

    Open AccessGiulio Lucarini, Youssef Bokbot et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2026

    Oued Beht, Morocco, is emerging as a key site for understanding later prehistory in the northwestern Maghreb. Previous fieldwork by the Oued Beht Archaeological Project (OBAP) in 2022 revealed major evidence of a large and complex focus of activity across the ridge during the mid-to-late fourth to earliest third millennium BC, associated with a previously little-known Final Neolithic phase interacting with contemporary southern Iberian developmen…

  • Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa

    Open AccessHamza Benattia, Youssef Bokbot et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 17

    The European shores of the Mediterranean are characterised by well-known sociocultural and economic dynamics during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages (2200-550 BC), but our understanding of the African shores is comparatively vague. Here, the authors present results from excavations at Kach Kouch, Morocco, revealing an occupation phase from 2200-2000 cal BC, followed by a stable settlement from c. 1300-600 BC characterised by wattle and daub archite…

  • The prehistoric site of Oued Beht, Khémisset, Morocco

    Open AccessCyprian Broodbank, Giulio Lucarini et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2024Cited by: 1References: 28

    This report presents the first in-depth publication of preliminary data from Oued Beht, northwest Morocco, a remarkable site initially identified in the 1930s and now newly investigated. It is based on fieldwork undertaken in 2021–2022 (photogrammetry, survey and excavation), and associated study and analyses. Oued Beht is shown to be a large site of ca. 9–10 hectares in main extent, with many deep pits and convincing evidence for a full package …

  • Oued Beht, Morocco

    Open AccessCyprian Broodbank, Giulio Lucarini et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2024Cited by: 5References: 27

    The Maghreb (north-west Africa) played an important role during the Palaeolithic and later in connecting the western Mediterranean from the Phoenician to Islamic periods. Yet, knowledge of its later prehistory is limited, particularly between c. 4000 and 1000 BC. Here, the authors present the first results of investigations at Oued Beht, Morocco, revealing a hitherto unknown farming society dated to c. 3400-2900 BC. This is currently the earliest…

  • Global Patterns in Island Colonization during the Holocene

    Open AccessThomas P Leppard, Ethan E Cochrane et al.ARTICLEJournal of World Prehistory2022Cited by: 5References: 253

    Analysis of the spatial and temporal structure of global island colonization allows us to frame the extent of insular human cultural diversity, model the impact of common environmental factors cross-culturally, and understand the contribution of island maritime societies to big historical processes. No such analysis has, however, been undertaken since the 1980s. In this paper we review and update global patterns in island colonization, synthesizi…

  • New Light on the Silent Millennia

    Open AccessGiulio Lucarini, Youssef Bokbot et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2021Cited by: 2References: 80

    The so-called neolithization process (ca. 6000/5500–4000 BC) in Mediterranean Africa and the Sahara has been increasingly researched in recent years. In contrast, relatively little is known, especially in Mediterranean Africa, of the period between the beginnings of irreversible climatic deterioration in the Sahara, around 4000–3500 BC, and the onset of Iron Age to broadly Classical times. Why, with the exception of the Nile Delta, is our knowled…

  • The MedAfriCarbon Radiocarbon Database and Web Application. Archaeological Dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC

    Open AccessGiulio Lucarini, Tim Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Open Archaeology Data2020

    The MedAfriCarbon radiocarbon database and its accompanying web application are outcomes of the MedAfrica project — Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC. The dataset presented here in Version 1.0 of the database includes 1587 archaeological 14C dates from 368 sites in Mediterranean Africa. The database is unusual because the majority of the dates within it have been annotated with further cultural and …

  • Dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–1000 bc

    Cyprian Broodbank, Giulio LucariniARTICLEJournal of Mediterranean…2020Cited by: 16References: 53

    Mediterranean Africa forms a crucial junction between the wider Saharan zone and the rest of the Mediterranean.In contrast to its well-investigated history from the first millennium BC onward, its antecedentdynamics are very poorly understood, and deeper archaeological histories of the Mediterranean thereforeremain unbalanced and incomplete. This paper draws on a new surge in data to present the first up-todateinterpretative synthesis of this reg…

  • Human demography changes in Morocco and environmental imprint during the Holocene

    Open AccessRachid Cheddadi, Alessio Palmisano et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Cited by: 5References: 23

    The aim of this work is to reconstruct the periods of growth and decline of human populations in Morocco and their potential impacts on the landscape over the past 10,000 years. In order to estimate the trends in the human population size between 10,000 and 3000 years ago, we used a summed probability distribution (SPD) of radiocarbon dates from a wide range of archaeological sites throughout Morocco. Landscape changes were identified and quantif…

  • The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age

    Open AccessMiljana Radivojević, Benjamin W Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research2018Cited by: 49References: 63

    Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining the geological origin of the constituent metals, copper and tin, and their movement from producer to consumer sites. More recently, the effects of recycling, both temporal and spatial, on the composition of the circulating metal sto…

  • So… What? Does the Paradigm Currently Want to Budge So Much

    Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEJournal of Mediterranean…2014

  • Discussion and Debate

    Cyprian Broodbank, Nena Galanidou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Mediterranean…2014Cited by: 1

    Within a 48-hour period during January 2014, the JMA co editors received two papers—those of Curtis Runnels and Thomas P. Leppard printed above—that, quite fortuitously, each addressed the topic of Mediterranean island colonization by archaic hominins, albeit from radically different perspectives. Neither author was aware of the other’s paper, nor has either article subsequently been revised to take account of the other. Realizing the widespread …

  • Minding the Gap

    Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2013Cited by: 8References: 13

    Thirty years on, “Rutter’s gap” remains a challenge for Aegean prehistorians. With a precision commonly overlooked by his critics, Rutter originally set out to draw attention to a lacuna in our knowledge of material from stratified sites in the Cyclades, or of Cycladic material exported elsewhere, at the end of the third millennium B.C.E. and to a consequent hiatus in our ability to trace how island culture and behavior shifted from the Early to …

  • Island dynamics and Minoan expansion in the Aegean

    Open AccessCyprian BroodbankARTICLEArchaeology International2012

    In recent years archaeologists have become increasingly interested in the investigation of island societies. At a global level, discoveries in the Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean and elsewhere have greatly improved our understanding of the antiquity and dynamics of island life. Now archaeologists at the Institute, together with other colleagues, have embarked on a long-term interdisciplinary study of the island of Kythera in the Aegean

  • Not Waving but Drowning

    Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEThe Journal of Island and Coastal…2008Cited by: 2References: 9

    ‘Kick a megalith’, as one leading phenomenologist of landscape is said to have remarked, ‘and it hurts’. No such pithy formula comes immediately to mind with regard to the reality checks offered by

  • The Origins and Early Development of Mediterranean Maritime Activity

    Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEJournal of Mediterranean…2007

    The Mediterranean is one of the world's two earliest foci of maritime activity. Recent discoveries shed new light on the times and places at which such activity began, and on the reasons why it did so. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic data continue to provide inconclusive evidence. Maritime activity remained modest for much of the Upper Palaeolithic (in contrast to Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific), and was perhaps linked to relocations due to …

  • Scientific Analysis of Metal Objects and Metallurgical Remains from Kastri, Kythera

    Open AccessCyprian Broodbank, Thilo Rehren et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2007Cited by: 1References: 3

    Scientific analysis of samples takes from metal objects and metallurgical products excavated during the 1960s at Kastri on Kythera provide new evidence concerning, variously, the Aegean metals trade and metallurgy on Kythera. The samples date to the Second Palace (Neopalatial), Classical and Late Roman periods. The Bronze Age material comprises fragments of copper ingots and silver cups, neither of which metal is locally available in Kythera, and…

  • The First "Minoans" of Kythera Revisited

    Cyprian Broodbank, Evangelia KiriatziARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2007Cited by: 13

    This article explores human mobility and cultural transmission among small-scale societies in prehistory through the analysis of technological, demographic, and landscape data from the Aegean island of Kythera during the Prepalatial period (mainly the Early Bronze Age of the third millennium B.C.E.). Since excavations at the coastal site of Kastri on Kythera were conducted in the 1960s, the island has played a major role in interpretations of Min…

  • The Origins and Early Development of Mediterranean Maritime Activity

    Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEJournal of Mediterranean…2006Cited by: 45References: 37

    The Mediterranean is one of the world's two earliest foci of maritime activity. Recent discoveries shed new light on the times and places at which such activity began, and on the reasons why it did so. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic data continue to provide inconclusive evidence. Maritime activity remained modest for much of the Upper Palaeolithic (in contrast to Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific), and was perhaps linked to relocations due to …

  • An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades

    Thomas F Tartaron, Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2001

  • The Insularity of Island Archaeologists

    Cyprian BroodbankARTICLEJournal of Mediterranean…2000Cited by: 4

  • Perspectives on an Early Bronze Age Island Centre

    Open AccessCyprian BroodbankARTICLEOxford Journal of Archaeology2000

    Island central places occupy a prominent position in archaeological, anthropological and historical debate, but the number of early examples of such centres that have to date been investigated in detail remains small. One such central place in the Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) Cycladic islands of the Aegean was the site of Daskaleio‐Kavos on Keros, although the interpretation of this site’s functions is controversial. Fieldwork at the site…

  • Island dynamics and Minoan expansion in the Aegean

    Open AccessCyprian BroodbankARTICLEArchaeology International1999

  • Kythera Survey

    Open AccessCyprian BroodbankARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1999Cited by: 7References: 4

    This article is a preliminary report on the first (1998) season of the Kythera Survey, an intensive fiels survey concentrating on the central-eastern part of the island. This survey forms part of a wider projecr, whose aim is to explore the long-term insular dynamics of Kythera as a stepping stone, filter, and island with its own identy. Another central aim of this project, expanding on excavations at Kastri and the peak sancturary of Agios Georg…

  • A Greek Countryside

    Cyprian Broodbank, Michael H Jameson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1997