Luca Bombardieri
Biographic Data
| ID | 907641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Bombardieri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bombardieri |
| SIGNATURE | BOMBARDIERI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6889-4106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inside out. Architecture, social segregation and cohesion in Early to Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
This paper explores how architecture and spatial organisation embodied mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus. Drawing on the theoretical premise that built environments both reflect and shape social relations, it analyses the emergence of segregated spaces as expressions of identity, cohesion, and hierarchy. The discussion integrates architectural and contextual evidence from the settlement of Erimi-Laonin to…
Jennifer M. Webb, Lapithos Sotira, Cyprus. Early and Middle Bronze Age tombs excavated in 1968/69
Mari Yamasaki, Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes. Concepts of the Sea and Marine Fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BCE
Le texte seul
Time Capsules
Andrew Sneddon, Lisa Graham, Tom Rymer, Gregory Deftereos, The Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Alambra in Cyprus. Excavations 2012–2016
Beyond sealing
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 inf…
Close to Us or Far from Them? Unusual Funerary Spaces in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
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 t…
Fast & Furious
In the archaeological record of Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus, evidence has been detected of rapid destruction events, which have been identified as principal triggering factors of definitive abandonment processes in some of the main settlements investigated on the island. The present paper aims to review the destruction sequences of these Bronze Age Cypriot contexts and to scrutinize the available stratigraphic data in order to possibly att…
The ‘Assyrian mill’. A case study on food processing technology and innovation in the Near East during the Neo-Assyrian period ( c . 900–600 BC)
Assyrian mills are innovative grinding tools that were introduced during the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 900–600 BC) in northern Mesopotamia, and which continued to be attested throughout the Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. This paper focuses on the Assyrian mills’ morphological characteristics and archaeological contexts, as well as their geographic and chronological distributions, in order to cast light on the possible reasons b…
Appetite for Destruction
Destruction processes are considered ‘time capsules of material culture’ (Driessen 2013) as they freeze a site at one moment of its history providing key evidence for interpreting the archaeological record and reconstructing social, political, cultural and ideological circumstances. By focusing on selected case-studies, this paper aims at briefly discussing existing evidence of destruction events in Bronze Age contexts in Cyprus, and at a prelimi…
Abandonment practices through the microscope lens. Microarchaeological data from Middle Bronze Age Erimi, Cyprus
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. Destr…
Christine Winkelmann, The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus
La raffigurazione umana nell’arte figurativa consente un percorso di analisi fra i più informativi (e certamente il più evocativo) nella ricostruzione delle dinamiche sociali e dell’ideologia di una comunità preistorica. Nella lettura dell’esteriorità sono molteplici e stratificate le implicazioni che si possono trarre per delineare l’identità dell’individuo e la sua funzione sociale. La gestualità e la selezione dei complementi decorativi (l’abb…
Going over the common thread with a fine-tooth comb, Actors and Interaction in a middle bronze age textile start-up
Cet article porte sur des données archéologiques et anthropologiques issues des travaux récents sur le site du Bronze Moyen d’Erimi. L’objectif est d’étudier, selon une analyse à plusieurs niveaux, à la fois l’environnement, les acteurs et leurs interactions dans une “start-up” textile préhistorique. On s’intéresse aux différentes activités et au mode d’organisation du travail dans l’atelier textile, en regard des informations livrées par la tomb…
Abandonment processes at Middle Bronze Age Erimi
Giampaolo Graziadio, The earliest Production of Aegean-type Pottery in Cyprus
After the identification of a “Levanto-Mycenaean” (Furumark) or “Levanto-Helladic” (Sjöqvist) regional variant of LH IIIA and B pottery in Cyprus and on the Levantine coast in the ‘40s, scholarly debate strongly argued for a distinctive ceramic repertoire specifically produced in Greece mainland for the Eastern Mediterranean markets. In this vein, some scholars also suggested that such a pottery with a clear eastern connotation was likely to have…
Vanity affairs
This article discusses the concept of vanity and its driving role in the formation of collections of antiquities. It focuses on the parallel cases of Luigi Palma di Cesnola and Paolo Azzati and their respective collections of Aegean and Cypriot antiquities. It is argued that both the collectors were condemned by their insatiability and dissatisfaction to make analogous choices, however different they may have been in social status and in the cont…
Characterization of Late Prehistoric Plasters and Mortars from Erimi – Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol, Cyprus)
Several plasters and mortars from the Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi – Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus) were analysed in order to perform a technological characterization. Morphological (SEM), elemental (EDX), mineralogical (XRPD), petrographic (polarized OM, SEM–EDX), thermal (TGA) and spectroscopic (FT–IR) techniques were applied. Plasters and mortars were identified as pyrotechnological lime products, obtained using local raw materials and contain…
Intérêts particuliers et débat public. Une lettre inédite à Paolo Mantegazza dans le cadre des rapports entre Luigi Palma di Cesnola et ses correspondants italiens
Bombardieri Luca. Intérêts particuliers et débat public. Une lettre inédite à Paolo Mantegazza dans le cadre des rapports entre Luigi Palma di Cesnola et ses correspondants italiens. In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 42, 2012. pp. 357-375
Dating the contexts (or contextualizing the datings?). New evidence from the Southern cemetery at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (EC-LC I)
Depuis 2008 , le site d'Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol ) fait l ’ objet d ’ une fouille systématique menée par une mission de l ’ Université de Florence en collaboration avec le Département des Antiquités de Chypre . L ’ objectif primaire de l ’ enquête était l ’ analyse du matériel funéraire de la nécropole Sud (Area E ), où plusieurs tombes à chambre individuelle ont été fouillées . Les petits objets et les assemblages céramiques , par leur…
Abandonment processes at Middle Bronze Age Erimi
Characterization of Late Prehistoric Plasters and Mortars from Erimi – Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol, Cyprus)
Several plasters and mortars from the Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi – Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus) were analysed in order to perform a technological characterization. Morphological (SEM), elemental (EDX), mineralogical (XRPD), petrographic (polarized OM, SEM–EDX), thermal (TGA) and spectroscopic (FT–IR) techniques were applied. Plasters and mortars were identified as pyrotechnological lime products, obtained using local raw materials and contain…
Dating the contexts (or contextualizing the datings?). New evidence from the Southern cemetery at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (EC-LC I)
Depuis 2008 , le site d'Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol ) fait l ’ objet d ’ une fouille systématique menée par une mission de l ’ Université de Florence en collaboration avec le Département des Antiquités de Chypre . L ’ objectif primaire de l ’ enquête était l ’ analyse du matériel funéraire de la nécropole Sud (Area E ), où plusieurs tombes à chambre individuelle ont été fouillées . Les petits objets et les assemblages céramiques , par leur…
Intérêts particuliers et débat public. Une lettre inédite à Paolo Mantegazza dans le cadre des rapports entre Luigi Palma di Cesnola et ses correspondants italiens
Bombardieri Luca. Intérêts particuliers et débat public. Une lettre inédite à Paolo Mantegazza dans le cadre des rapports entre Luigi Palma di Cesnola et ses correspondants italiens. In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 42, 2012. pp. 357-375
Characterization of Late Prehistoric Plasters and Mortars from Erimi – Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol, Cyprus)
Several plasters and mortars from the Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi – Laonin tou Porakou (Cyprus) were analysed in order to perform a technological characterization. Morphological (SEM), elemental (EDX), mineralogical (XRPD), petrographic (polarized OM, SEM–EDX), thermal (TGA) and spectroscopic (FT–IR) techniques were applied. Plasters and mortars were identified as pyrotechnological lime products, obtained using local raw materials and contain…
Giampaolo Graziadio, The earliest Production of Aegean-type Pottery in Cyprus
After the identification of a “Levanto-Mycenaean” (Furumark) or “Levanto-Helladic” (Sjöqvist) regional variant of LH IIIA and B pottery in Cyprus and on the Levantine coast in the ‘40s, scholarly debate strongly argued for a distinctive ceramic repertoire specifically produced in Greece mainland for the Eastern Mediterranean markets. In this vein, some scholars also suggested that such a pottery with a clear eastern connotation was likely to have…
Vanity affairs
This article discusses the concept of vanity and its driving role in the formation of collections of antiquities. It focuses on the parallel cases of Luigi Palma di Cesnola and Paolo Azzati and their respective collections of Aegean and Cypriot antiquities. It is argued that both the collectors were condemned by their insatiability and dissatisfaction to make analogous choices, however different they may have been in social status and in the cont…
Going over the common thread with a fine-tooth comb, Actors and Interaction in a middle bronze age textile start-up
Cet article porte sur des données archéologiques et anthropologiques issues des travaux récents sur le site du Bronze Moyen d’Erimi. L’objectif est d’étudier, selon une analyse à plusieurs niveaux, à la fois l’environnement, les acteurs et leurs interactions dans une “start-up” textile préhistorique. On s’intéresse aux différentes activités et au mode d’organisation du travail dans l’atelier textile, en regard des informations livrées par la tomb…
Abandonment processes at Middle Bronze Age Erimi
Abandonment practices through the microscope lens. Microarchaeological data from Middle Bronze Age Erimi, Cyprus
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. Destr…
Christine Winkelmann, The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus
La raffigurazione umana nell’arte figurativa consente un percorso di analisi fra i più informativi (e certamente il più evocativo) nella ricostruzione delle dinamiche sociali e dell’ideologia di una comunità preistorica. Nella lettura dell’esteriorità sono molteplici e stratificate le implicazioni che si possono trarre per delineare l’identità dell’individuo e la sua funzione sociale. La gestualità e la selezione dei complementi decorativi (l’abb…
Appetite for Destruction
Destruction processes are considered ‘time capsules of material culture’ (Driessen 2013) as they freeze a site at one moment of its history providing key evidence for interpreting the archaeological record and reconstructing social, political, cultural and ideological circumstances. By focusing on selected case-studies, this paper aims at briefly discussing existing evidence of destruction events in Bronze Age contexts in Cyprus, and at a prelimi…
The ‘Assyrian mill’. A case study on food processing technology and innovation in the Near East during the Neo-Assyrian period ( c . 900–600 BC)
Assyrian mills are innovative grinding tools that were introduced during the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 900–600 BC) in northern Mesopotamia, and which continued to be attested throughout the Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. This paper focuses on the Assyrian mills’ morphological characteristics and archaeological contexts, as well as their geographic and chronological distributions, in order to cast light on the possible reasons b…
Beyond sealing
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 inf…
Close to Us or Far from Them? Unusual Funerary Spaces in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
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 t…
Fast & Furious
In the archaeological record of Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus, evidence has been detected of rapid destruction events, which have been identified as principal triggering factors of definitive abandonment processes in some of the main settlements investigated on the island. The present paper aims to review the destruction sequences of these Bronze Age Cypriot contexts and to scrutinize the available stratigraphic data in order to possibly att…
Andrew Sneddon, Lisa Graham, Tom Rymer, Gregory Deftereos, The Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Alambra in Cyprus. Excavations 2012–2016
Mari Yamasaki, Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes. Concepts of the Sea and Marine Fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BCE
Le texte seul
Time Capsules
Inside out. Architecture, social segregation and cohesion in Early to Middle Bronze Age Cyprus
This paper explores how architecture and spatial organisation embodied mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus. Drawing on the theoretical premise that built environments both reflect and shape social relations, it analyses the emergence of segregated spaces as expressions of identity, cohesion, and hierarchy. The discussion integrates architectural and contextual evidence from the settlement of Erimi-Laonin to…
Jennifer M. Webb, Lapithos Sotira, Cyprus. Early and Middle Bronze Age tombs excavated in 1968/69
Archaeology (13 works) · Bronze Age (12 works) · History (12 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Bronze (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (7 works) · Art (6 works)