Abandonment practices through the microscope lens. Microarchaeological data from Middle Bronze Age Erimi, Cyprus

Amadio, Marialucia; Bombardieri, Luca

doi:10.1080/00758914.2021.1890400

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2020

DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2021.1890400

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Abandonment practices through the microscope lens. Microarchaeological data from Middle Bronze Age Erimi, Cyprus

Marialucia Amadio

Luca Bombardieri

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“…62 Ibid.63Bombardieri, Amadio 2021. 64Amadio, Bombardieri 2019, p. 7;Amadio, Boaretto, Bombardieri 2021;Villani, Tripodi forthcoming.…”

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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 attempt a characterisation of the abandonment dynamics at these settlements and possibly define if these processes were gradual, as part of a long-term project, or rapid and unplanned. While we could not trace precise motivations behind the abandonment of these contexts, data resulting from this analysis indicate that the majority of the settlements examined were abandoned in a planned and gradual process and that rapid single abandonment events occur only under relatively unique conditions. Resumé. La documentation archéologique concernantChypre à l'âge du Bronze témoigne d'événements ayant entraîné des destructions rapides, qui ont été identifiés, pour certains des principaux établissements connus sur l'île, comme des facteurs importants à l'origine d'un processus d'abandon définitif. Cet article vise à passer en revue les séquences de destruction de ces contextes chypriotes de l'âge du Bronze, et à examiner les données stratigraphiques disponibles afin d'essayer de caractériser la 'dynamique d'abandon' de ces établissements et de comprendre si ces processus ont été graduels, s'inscrivant dans le cadre d'un projet à long terme, ou au contraire rapides et non planifiés. Bien qu'il soit impossible de retracer les motivations précises qui sous-tendent l'abandon de ces contextes, les données résultant de cette analyse indiquent que la majorité des établissements examinés ont été abandonnés de façon planifiée et graduelle, et que les phénomènes d'abandon rapide ne se produisent que dans des conditions tout à fait rares. Destruction and abandonment in Bronze Age CyprusAbandonment processes constitute important transformative events in the life cycle of buildings and settlements and the life history of individuals and communities associated with them. Abandonment phenomena determine evident changes in the building's structures through processes of degradation and destruction or practices of maintenance and repair. 1 They also define 1

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Abandonment practices through the microscope lens. Microarchaeological data from Middle Bronze Age Erimi, Cyprus

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