CAARI lecture Andrew Sneddon

New Research at the Middle Bronze Age site of Alambra
When the results of the Cornell University excavations at Alambra Mouttes were published in 1996, archaeologists might have been forgiven for thinking that the site had yielded all of its substantive research data. However, a chance find during road works at Alambra ten years later led to four seasons of excavation from 2012 to 2016 by a team from the University of Queensland, Australia (and then from La Trobe University, Australia). Dr Sneddon’s talk will present the results of the most recent excavations which have shed new light on the layout and extent of the prehistoric Bronze Age site, its possible relationship with nearby Marki Alonia, and the circumstances of the settlement’s abandonment, which was accompanied by widespread and destructive fire. It will consider what the archaeology says of the social relationships that prevailed at prehistoric Bronze Age Alambra during the period of rapid change at the end of the Middle Bronze Age.