Interpreting long-lived-in dwelling spaces: integrated spatial analysis of a Late Bronze Age area at Coppa Nevigata (south-eastern Italy)

Title

Interpreting long-lived-in dwelling spaces: integrated spatial analysis of a Late Bronze Age area at Coppa Nevigata (south-eastern Italy)

Creator(s)

Recchia, Giulia

Lucci, Enrico

Fiorentino, Girolamo

Minniti, Claudia

Mironti, Vittorio

Primavera, Milena

Siracusano, Gianni

Vilmercati, Melissa

Editor(s)

Jallot, L.

Peinetti, Alessandro

Date

2021

Is Part Of

18 th UISPP Proceedings Series Places of Life and Domestic Spaces: Functional Organizations and Social Strategies,

Pages

119-137

Language

eng

Publisher

ArchaeoPress

Place Published

Oxford

ISBN

978-1-80327-137-8

Short Title

Interpreting long-lived-in dwelling spaces

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/66CB9C9F/item-list

Abstract

Spatial analyses have been increasingly used to investigate behavioural patterns and human activities in archaeological and ethnoarchaeological studies. For the Bronze Age in the central Mediterranean spatial analyses integrating various ranges of data, from artefacts to ecofacts, still remain limited in number. Moreover, studies have mainly focussed on well-preserved contexts affected by sudden destructions; spaces inhabited over long periods and so subjected to dynamic depositional processes, are more challenging to interpret as to their function(s). Yet, these latter are commonly encountered archaeological contexts. Representing palimpsests of repeated activities, they are valuable case studies for investigating the spatial organisation of activities. This paper presents an integrated spatial analysis of a long-occupied area of the Coppa Nevigata settlement from the Late Bronze Age. It is a trial, aimed at both building a viable methodology to deal with ‘dynamic’ deposits and verifying the potential of the observed record in terms of activity areas and fossilised patterns of behaviour. https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={F629B808-C1A9-4AF6-AABB-A21AB53A8D7A}