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A major shift in Late Bronze Age metalwork production around 900 BC
2023
Our traditional chronology systems hardly ever reflect cultural changes accurately and may even mask real moments of discontinuity. This is particularly true for the second part of the Late Bronze Age Urnfield Period where a radical change in iconography can actually be noticed around 900 BC. Within a very short period, the famous solar bird-boat iconography, which had widely developed over centuries and given rise to the elaborate and sophisticated ornamentation known on solid hilted swords from the 11th/10th century, takes a back seat and we can see a single new symbol coming to the fore, concentrating figurative representation in form of a singular vase-shaped build (Wirth S. 2021, 652-6…
Production et circulation des épées à poignée métallique de l'âge du Bronze en Europe occidentale
2022
Several regional syntheses have been published on Bronze Age solid-hilted swords, but none for France and the Benelux countries. This dissertation aims first at filling this gap by listing the swords from this region. By adding data from these pre-existing studies, it is possible to study the distribution of solid-hilted swords on a European scale. The building of an inventory is an essential condition to study the diffusion of these weapons over long distances. This must come along with models to characterise the organisation of the swords production and the ways they spread out. It requires us to question the status of the craftsmen, their organisation and their location. One of the first…
Beyond Health and Happiness : An Exploratory Study Into the Relationship Between Craftsmanship and Meaningfulness of Sport
2021
Meaning in movement is an enduring topic in sport social sciences, but few studies have explored how sport is meaningful and for whom. The authors examined the relationships between demographic variables, meaningfulness of sport, and craftsmanship. Athletes (N = 258, 61.6% male, age ≥18) from the United Kingdom completed a demographic questionnaire, the Work and Meaning Inventory modified for sport, and the Craftsmanship Scale. Older age and individual sport significantly correlated with higher craftsmanship. Craftsmanship and religion were two independent predictors of meaningfulness, but emphasized somewhat different meaning dimensions. Meaningfulness in sport seems to be related to how a…
L'ecomuseo del grano e del pane: un percorso progettuale centrato sul design
2018
La festa di S. Giuseppe, oltre che un’importante e sentita ricorrenza religiosa, è a Salemi soprattutto la “festa dei pani”; bellissime realizzazioni di alto artigianato artistico, la cui sapienza si tramanda nelle famiglie e nelle associazioni di donne che per mesi lavorano alla produzione dell’enorme quantità delle piccole e grandi forme di pane, per rivestire le costruzioni votive che accolgono il rito della cena. Nasce quindi l’idea di proporre un “Ecomuseo del grano e del pane” nel Collegio dei Gesuiti, valorizzando e riaprendo al pubblico uno spazio di grande interesse storico-architettonico. Nell’ambito della consolidata collaborazione del Comune di Salemi con il Dipartimento di Arch…
The special qualities of “thrown” pottery in the cultural and environmental landscape of the Seine area in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE
2021
Transmission patterns in the production of Bronze Age solid- hilted swords
2023
Bronze Age swords with a bronze hilt were a highly specialised production. Casting hilts and blades and fixing them to each other require lots of precision and very specific skills. We hardly know anything about the production organisation as moulds are extremely rare, preventing us from locating workshops. However, studying swords themselves using X-ray imaging techniques allows us to reconstruct a part of the chaîne opératoire and gain insight into some aspects of the production processes. We identify three periods in the production of solid-hilted swords at the European scale:1. Experimental phase (1800-1450 BC): small-scaled productions by multiple workshops experimenting various ways o…
Lo sfavillio contemporaneo della gioielleria tradizionale nel Sud Italia
2022
Il contributo riflette sul lavoro di raccolta, descrizione e interpretazione dei dati operato da Ottavio Cavalcanti in ordine all’oreficeria tradizionale, esitato in una documentazione di tipo audio-visuale, "La tradizione orafa in Calabria", che rappresenta un’attenta e accurata indagine sull’universo orafo calabrese. Fra i vari spunti che offre lo studio di Cavalcanti, uno in particolare ha attirato l'attenzione dello scrivente. Lo studioso dedica infatti ampio spazio della sua ricerca al lavoro e all’opera degli artigiani orafi calabresi, che ancora oggi propongono gioielli legati alla tradizione unitamente a proposte innovative destinate a una più ampia committenza. Un percorso, questo,…
Rémunérations, travail et niveaux de vie à Dijon à la fin du Moyen-Age
2019
The remuneration of work is a familiar concept in our modern world. It is well known that medieval societies also faced it, but we don’t know under what proportions, what influenced its level and how it participates to living standard. These are the central questions guiding this work, with Dijon at the end of the Middle Ages as a mooring point. The richness of Dijon medieval archives offers high quality material for the study of medieval remunerations. A first point of observation was established during the 1370-1395 period, where the cross-referencing of various documents made possible to systemically observe the importance of remunerations within Dijon society. Two other observation poin…
IMPRESSIONI IN SICILIA
2014
“Impressioni in Sicilia” è la storia di una piccola azienda di design tessile che ha operato a Palermo dal 1974 fino al 1994. Proprietaria dell’impresa è Regine Hildebrandt, una svizzera trapiantata in Sicilia. La nascita di questo laboratorio s’inserisce in quel filone di esperienze finalizzate a incentivare il processo che vede l’incontro tra la cultura del progetto e la produzione artigianale, spesso legata alle tradizioni e alle risorse di alcuni territori. Gli oggetti progettati e realizzati da Regine hanno un valore durevole per la qualità dei disegni e dei materiali ma soprattutto, perché il suo progetto di ricerca è destinato all’identificazione e alla proposizione di “tratti cultur…