Punta di Zambrone

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Punta di Zambrone

The Punta di Zambrone , also Capo Cozzo , is a cape on the coast of Calabria in southern Italy . It is located on the southwest coast of mainland Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the municipality of Zambrone in the province of Vibo Valentia .

The cape is known for the archaeological excavation of a Bronze Age settlement from the 2nd millennium BC that took place there from 2011 to 2013 . The excavation was carried out in cooperation between the Universities of Naples (Federico II) and Salzburg and the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the direction of Reinhard Jung and Marco Pacciarelli . Here one found in the archaeological context of the time around 1200 BC Mycenaean ceramics , Mycenaean jewelry and a Neo-Palatial Minoan ivory statuette from the 17th to 15th centuries BC made in Greece . Italomycian ceramics, that is, Mycenaean style dishes made in Italy, were hardly found.

In the Bronze Age, the land access to the Punta di Zambrone was protected by a fortification trench around eighty meters long and four to five meters wide. This points to an important role as a seaport, possibly a trading post of the Mycenaeans. In the south of the cape there was a now silted bay that could have served as a harbor. The Bronze Age settlement was built between the 17th and 12th centuries BC. Dated, but already from the 21st century BC. Traces of settlement are detectable.

literature

  • Reinhard Jung, Marco Pacciarelli, Barbara Zach, Marlies Klee, Ursula Thanheiser: Punta di Zambrone (Calabria) - a Bronze Age Harbor Site. First Preliminary Report on the Recent Bronze Age (2011–2012 Campaigns) . In: Archaeologia Austriaca . tape 99 . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2015, ISSN  0003-8008 , p. 53–110 ( academia.edu [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  • Reinhard Jung, Marco Pacciarelli: A Minoan Statuette from Punta di Zambrone in Southern Calabria . In: Eva Alram-Stern, Fritz Blakolmer, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, Robert Laffineur, Jörg Weilhartner (eds.): Metaphysis. Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age . 15th International Aegean Conference Held at the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology. Aegaeum, Liège ( summary [PDF; 410 kB ]).
  • Reinhard Jung, Sonia Conte, Ilaria Matarese, Simona Quartieri, Rossella Arletti, Marco Pacciarelli, Bernard Gratuze: Bronze Age Vitreous Materials of Punta di Zambrone (Southern Italy) . In: European Journal of Mineralogy . No. 27 . Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 2015, ISSN  0935-1221 , p. 337-351 ( abstract ).
  • Reinhard Jung, Pamela Fragnoli, Cristina Capriglione, Marco Pacciarelli: Before Sampling: Systematic Procedures of Macroscopic Pottery Classification within the Punta di Zambrone (VV) Research Project . In: Luigi Cicala, Giovanna Greco (eds.): Quaderni del Centro Studi Magna Grecia . No. 19 . Pozzuoli, Naples 2014, ISBN 978-88-7478-035-8 , pp. 117-136 .
  • Reinhard Jung, Marco Pacciarelli, Gerhard Forstenpointner, Gabriele Slepecki, Gerald E. Weissengruber, Alfred Galik: Finds from the rubbish heap of history in the fortification ditch of Punta di Zambrone - fishing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean . In: Martin Bartelheim, Barbara Horejs, Raiko Krauß (eds.): From Baden to Troja: Use of resources, metallurgy and knowledge transfer . An anniversary font for Ernst Pernicka. VML, Rahden / Westf. 2016, ISBN 978-3-86757-010-7 , pp. 175-206 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhard Jung: The relations between late Mycenaean Greece and Italy . In: Ancient World . No. 4/2015 . von Zabern , 2015, ISSN  0003-570X , p. 25/26 .
  2. ↑ a b Punta di Zambrone. The archaeological findings. (No longer available online.) Institute for Oriental and European Archeology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on September 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.puntazambrone.com
  3. ^ A b Reinhard Jung, Marco Pacciarelli: Punta di Zambrone: The place of discovery. (No longer available online.) OeAW - Institute for Oriental and European Archeology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on July 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.puntazambrone.com

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Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ 53 ″  N , 15 ° 58 ′ 20 ″  E