EAP – Erimi Archaeological Project (Italian Archeological Mission in Erimi – Cipro)

Project data

Funding entiy: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Call: Italian archaeological, anthropological and ethnological missions abroad

Coordinator: UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA

UNISI Principal Investigator: Luca Bombardieri

Department: Phylology and Literary criticism

Start date:  02 January 2023 – End date: 31 December 2024  

Description

The project aims at investigating the socio-cultural and economic developments of the prehistoric community of Erimi, in the island of Cyprus, during Middle Bronze Age Cyprus (c. 1960-1650 BC). This represents a key-period of Cypriot prehistory to examine the passage from the village-based rural society of Early Bronze Age Cyprus to the urban society of Late Bronze Age Cyprus. For this reason, the major aim of the research program at Erimi is to examine the antecedents of the island-wide urbanisation process of LC II-III, in order to possibly set this fundamental phenomenon within a wider chronological and cultural framework. To accomplish so, interdisciplinary and multi-scalar analyses are being applied to the examination of the study context. This scientific methodological approach permits to generate new networked data to the study of Cypriot Bronze Age societies.

 

This project has received funding from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation under the annual call for contributions for italian archaeological missions abroad