Jean graziani
University of Corsica, Archéologie, Graduate Student
- Mediterranean prehistory, Archéologie, Âge du Bronze, Metallurgy, Trade, Pottery, and 54 moreExchange, Archeologie, Social Change During the Early Bronze Age, Metallurgie, Protohistoire Européenne, Protohistoire corse, Brotlaibidole, Poignard, Hallebarde, Tavolelette Enigmatiche, Discourse Analysis, Prehistoric Archaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Archaeological Theory, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Typology, Iberian Prehistory (Archaeology), Bronze Age (Archaeology), Prehistoric Settlement, Mesolithic/Neolithic, Bronze Age Archaeology, Eliana Piccardi, Dischi Solari a Roca, Early Bronze Age (Archaeology), Archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, Bronze Age, Corsican archaeology, Italian Pre- and Protohistory, Protohistory, Late Bronze Age, Etruscology, Bronze and Iron Ages in Italy (Archaeology), Corsica, Protohistoire, Middle Bronze Age, âge du Fer en Corse, Ritual Practices, Etruscan and pre-Roman archaeology, European Protohistory, Sardinia (Archaeology), Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Corsican Iron Age, Ancient Technology (Archaeology), Prehistoric archaeology of Corsica, Contact and Exchanges between Ancient Communities, Mycenaean pottery, Histprical Linguistics. IndoEuropean languages. Italic Group: Sabellian; Archaic Latin and Faliscan; generally Ancient Italy Linguistics and Epigraphy., Produzioni Specializzate Dell'Età Del Bronzo, Fragmentation in material culture, Prehistoric Rock Art, Megalithic Monuments, and Cerámica Campaniformeedit
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La vallée de Reginu fut, gràce à quelques érudits locaux, l'une des premières régions de la Corse septentrionale à attirer l'attention des chercheurs en préhistoire. La mise au jour de collections anciennes dans le cadre d'un tavail de... more
La vallée de Reginu fut, gràce à quelques érudits locaux, l'une des premières régions de la Corse septentrionale à attirer l'attention des chercheurs en préhistoire. La mise au jour de collections anciennes dans le cadre d'un tavail de thèse et la découverte fortuite de deux "tavolette enigmaticheé ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives de recherche.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Mediterranean prehistory, Metallurgy, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), and 59 moreBronze Age Archaeology, Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Aegean Archaeology, Ancient Technology (Archaeology), Bronze Age (Archaeology), Mediterranean archaeology, Middle Bronze Age, Goldsmithery, Goldsmiths, Mycenaean, Ancient jewellery, Protohistory, Ancient Metal Technology, Paleometallurgy, Ancient Metallurgy, Aegean Bronze Age, Ancient technology, Bronze Age, beni di prestigio nella Tarda Età del Bronzo, Corsica, Middle and Late Bronze Age, Corsican archaeology, Mediterranean Protohistory, Contact and Exchanges between Ancient Communities, Età del Bronzo, LBA moulds and crucibles, Ancient Mining and Metallurgy, Bronze Age non ferrous metallurgy, Middle bronze age weapons & tools, European Protohistory, Protohistoria, Bronze Age Metal Technology, Ancient Goldsmith Techniques, Late Bronze Age Weaponry and Metallurgy, Protohistoire, Bronze Age Metalwork, Ancient Greek Jewellery, Goldsmithing, Corse, Âge du Bronze, Western Mediterranean archaeology, Age Du Bronze En Corse, Bronze Age Metallurgy, Bronze Age metalworking, Protohistoire corse, Gold jewellery, Protohistoire Européenne, Age du Bronze, Ancient gold jewellery, Bronzo Medio, Bronze moyen, Classical Chasing & Repousse, Ancient Jewellery and Ornamentation, Steatite), Bronze Age Metalwork and Metallurgy, Protohistoire éGéenne, Histoire Et Archéologie Du Métal (Protohistoire Et Antiquité), Ancient Silver Jewellery, and Craftsmanship Ancient Jewellery
Research Interests: Archaeology, Metallurgy, Metalwork (Archaeology), Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Bronze Age Archaeology, and 52 moreLate Bronze Age archaeology, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Early Bronze Age (Archaeology), Middle Bronze Age, Bronze And Iron Age In Mediterrarranean (Archaeology), Protohistory, Paleometallurgy, Ancient Metallurgy, Bronze Age, Metalworking, Early Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Bronze and Iron Ages in Italy (Archaeology), Protohistoric Europe, Corsica, Ancient Metalwork, Late Bronze Age, Corsican archaeology, Mediterranean Protohistory, Metalwork, Moulding and Casting, Late Bronze Age Weaponry, LBA moulds and crucibles, Ancient Mining and Metallurgy, Bronze Age swords, Stone Moulds, Middle bronze age weapons & tools, European Protohistory, Protohistoria, Corsican Iron Age, Italian Pre- and Protohistory, âge du Fer en Corse, Late Bronze Age Weaponry and Metallurgy, Protohistoire, Late Bronze Age in the Western Mediterranean, Bronze Age Metalwork, Bronze Production, Corse, Cuciurpula, Western Mediterranean archaeology, Metal tools, Age Du Bronze En Corse, Paléométallurgie, Age du Bonze final, premier Age du fer en Corse, Protohistoire corse, Corsican prehistory, Prehistoric archaeology of Corsica, Western Mediterranean Bronze Age, Weaponry, Moulds, Iron Age Weaponry, and Bronze Age Metalwork and Metallurgy
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Mediterranean prehistory, Metallurgy, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Bronze Age Archaeology, and 71 moreLate Bronze Age archaeology, Prehistoric weapons, Archaeometallurgy, End of the Bronze Age, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Early Bronze Age (Archaeology), Trade, Mediterranean archaeology, Middle Bronze Age, Bronze And Iron Age In Mediterrarranean (Archaeology), Protohistory, Iron Age, Pottery, Ancient Metal Technology, Ancient Metallurgy, Protohistoric Iberian Peninsula, Bronze Age, Metalworking, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Protohistoric Europe, Late Bronze Age, Bronze and Iron Ages (Europe and Mediterranean), Corsican archaeology, Archaeometallurgical Researchs, Prehistoric Metallurgy, Mediterranean Protohistory, Exchange, Età del Bronzo, Late Bronze Age Weaponry, LBA metallurgy and Technology, LBA moulds and crucibles, Bronze Age warfare, Ancient Mining and Metallurgy, Bronze metallurgy, Bronze Age non ferrous metallurgy, Bronze Age swords, Stone Moulds, Ancient Weapons and Warfare, European Protohistory, Italian Bronze Age Archaeology, Corsican Iron Age, Commensality, âge du Fer en Corse, Late Bronze Age Weaponry and Metallurgy, Archaeo-Metallurgy, Protohistoire, Archeometry, archaeology, archaeometallurgy, Bronze Age Metalwork, Phoenician trade, Ritual Practices, Limestone moulds, Age Du Bronze En Corse, Cultura materiale dell'Età del Bronzo, Bronze Age Metallurgy, Metal, Bronze, Metalworking, Stone tools for mechanical metalworking, Bronze Age metalworking, Age du Bonze final, premier Age du fer en Corse, Protohistoire corse, Archaeometalurgy, Accumulo e tesaurizzazione dei metalli nella Sardegna nuragica, in Corsica e nell'Etruria tirrenica nella fase BF3/IFe 1, Materials and Metallurgy, Métallurgie du bronze, Corsican prehistory, Moulding and casting techniques, Prehistoric archaeology of Corsica, Storia Delle Miniere E Della Metallurgia, Social Change During the Early Bronze Age, History of Metal Technology (Copper, Bronze Age Metalwork and Metallurgy, and Metalurgy and Proses Manufactur
Research Interests: Archaeology, Egyptology, Maritime History, Metallurgy, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), and 68 moreBronze Age Archaeology, Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Ancient Geography, Jewellery (Craft Knowledge), Mycenaean era archaeology, Late Bronze Age archaeology, Aegean Archaeology, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Early Bronze Age (Archaeology), Trade, Mediterranean archaeology, Middle Bronze Age, Bronze And Iron Age In Mediterrarranean (Archaeology), Goldsmiths, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Mycenaean, Ancient jewellery, Protohistory, Pottery, Paleometallurgy, Aegean, Ancient Metallurgy, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Aegean Prehistory, Bronze Age, Metalworking, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Protohistoric Europe, Mycenaean Achaea, Exchange and Interaction between Greece and Italy in the Bronze Age, Amarna Egypt, the Sea Peoples, XIX - XX Dynasty in Egypt, the Hittites, the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Medittaranean, Corsican archaeology, Mediterranean Protohistory, Myceneans in Italy, Exchange, Età del Bronzo, LBA moulds and crucibles, Ancient Mining and Metallurgy, Art History, Jewellery History, Stone Moulds, Islands, European Protohistory, Protohistoria, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Corsican Iron Age, âge du Fer en Corse, Insularity, Ancient Goldsmith Techniques, Sea, Ports, Protohistoire, Ancient Greek Jewellery, Goldsmithing, Âge du Bronze, Protohistoric Archaeology, Late Helladic, Age Du Bronze En Corse, Metal, Bronze, Metalworking, Stone tools for mechanical metalworking, Paléométallurgie, Bronze Age metalworking, Age du Bonze final, premier Age du fer en Corse, Protohistoire corse, Accumulo e tesaurizzazione dei metalli nella Sardegna nuragica, in Corsica e nell'Etruria tirrenica nella fase BF3/IFe 1, Prehistoric Metalworking in Social Context, Corsican prehistory, Prehistoric archaeology of Corsica, and Social Change During the Early Bronze Age
This communication aims to present the information concerning the identification of furniture and know-how originally from eastern Mediterranean in Corsica through Middle Bronze Age (1600-1200 b.C.) and Late Bronze Age (1200-800 b.C.). In... more
This communication aims to present the information concerning the identification of furniture and know-how originally from eastern Mediterranean in Corsica through Middle Bronze Age (1600-1200 b.C.) and Late Bronze Age (1200-800 b.C.).
In this island, the question of the presence of Aegean elements was, for a long time, associated to a theory involving a foreign-born population, the Sherden, a group mentioned within the famous Sea Peoples. After the abandonment of these historic-factual constructions, the insular archaeological research attached itself to the analysis of the sociocultural character of insular groups from the Bronze Age, without trying to connect them to the cultural dynamics from eastern Mediterranean.
After three decades of scientific introspection, it seems important to propose a postponed inventory on this specific issue. The issue of relations between the Aegean and Near-Eastern areas is documented today by several discoveries, revisions on objects and specific analysis made for fifteen years. In the early 2000s, the first formal testimony of the eastern importation recognized in Corsica is a copper ingot of ox-hide typology and Cypriot origin, found out of context in Sant’Anastasia, in the northeast area of the island. This object, published by F. Lo Schiavo, illustrates the integration at least marginal of Corsica into the Mediterranean networks of metal distribution in the late second millennium. This discovery thereby came to partially fulfill an important gap in research, particularly illustrated by the strong contrast expressed by the number of remains of this type between Corsica and Sardinia. At the same time, the realization of analysis (laser ablation coupled to mass spectrometry) on vitreous furniture unearthed during ancient excavations of the sites of Foce, Tiresa and Filitosa permitted to set the context of production, revealing the near-eastern origin of the materials.
More recently, the discovery of a set of ornaments in connection in a sepulchral context of the late Middle Bronze at the site of Campu Stefanu (southwest) allowed obtaining of one of the largest repositories for this type of production throughout the western Mediterranean. This necklace is composed by 25 blue-glass beads of Near-Eastern origin, even Egyptian, and of 29 Baltic amber beads of Aegean typology, which show, in addition, a perfect physical, chemical and morphological superposition with isolated beads from contemporary sepulchral contexts of Sardinia. In this context, the formal non-recognition of Helladic crockery in Corsica, while several cases are known and published in Nuragic area, seems to be explained by a delay in research.
Besides these direct testimonies betraying the importation of exotic prestige goods in Corsica between the fourteenth and the twelfth centuries, recent achievements illustrate the existence of technical transfers between the island and the Mycenaean world around the middle and late second millennium. These phenomena are notably materialized by the strong technical and iconographic analogies observed during repoussé work in metal foils. The matrices recognized in Corsica present indeed profound occurrences with those individualized in Greece, as well as the finished objects to which they are attached. Unlike importing exotica and bullion, repoussé metalwork is not known in Sardinia and peninsular Italy during those times, thereby introducing a direct transfer of know-how between these two territories.
Through these few examples, of which we sense a short-term enrichment, we’ll try to measure and explain the integration of different types of remains within the native society, in order to draw the position of the island amongst the networks between the two basins of the Mediterranean.
In this island, the question of the presence of Aegean elements was, for a long time, associated to a theory involving a foreign-born population, the Sherden, a group mentioned within the famous Sea Peoples. After the abandonment of these historic-factual constructions, the insular archaeological research attached itself to the analysis of the sociocultural character of insular groups from the Bronze Age, without trying to connect them to the cultural dynamics from eastern Mediterranean.
After three decades of scientific introspection, it seems important to propose a postponed inventory on this specific issue. The issue of relations between the Aegean and Near-Eastern areas is documented today by several discoveries, revisions on objects and specific analysis made for fifteen years. In the early 2000s, the first formal testimony of the eastern importation recognized in Corsica is a copper ingot of ox-hide typology and Cypriot origin, found out of context in Sant’Anastasia, in the northeast area of the island. This object, published by F. Lo Schiavo, illustrates the integration at least marginal of Corsica into the Mediterranean networks of metal distribution in the late second millennium. This discovery thereby came to partially fulfill an important gap in research, particularly illustrated by the strong contrast expressed by the number of remains of this type between Corsica and Sardinia. At the same time, the realization of analysis (laser ablation coupled to mass spectrometry) on vitreous furniture unearthed during ancient excavations of the sites of Foce, Tiresa and Filitosa permitted to set the context of production, revealing the near-eastern origin of the materials.
More recently, the discovery of a set of ornaments in connection in a sepulchral context of the late Middle Bronze at the site of Campu Stefanu (southwest) allowed obtaining of one of the largest repositories for this type of production throughout the western Mediterranean. This necklace is composed by 25 blue-glass beads of Near-Eastern origin, even Egyptian, and of 29 Baltic amber beads of Aegean typology, which show, in addition, a perfect physical, chemical and morphological superposition with isolated beads from contemporary sepulchral contexts of Sardinia. In this context, the formal non-recognition of Helladic crockery in Corsica, while several cases are known and published in Nuragic area, seems to be explained by a delay in research.
Besides these direct testimonies betraying the importation of exotic prestige goods in Corsica between the fourteenth and the twelfth centuries, recent achievements illustrate the existence of technical transfers between the island and the Mycenaean world around the middle and late second millennium. These phenomena are notably materialized by the strong technical and iconographic analogies observed during repoussé work in metal foils. The matrices recognized in Corsica present indeed profound occurrences with those individualized in Greece, as well as the finished objects to which they are attached. Unlike importing exotica and bullion, repoussé metalwork is not known in Sardinia and peninsular Italy during those times, thereby introducing a direct transfer of know-how between these two territories.
Through these few examples, of which we sense a short-term enrichment, we’ll try to measure and explain the integration of different types of remains within the native society, in order to draw the position of the island amongst the networks between the two basins of the Mediterranean.