Lorenzo Zamboni
Associate Professor in Archaeology, University of Milan
I studied at the universities of Milan and Pavia, defending a PhD thesis on the trading hub of Spina. I worked as postdoctoral fellow at the universities of Milano-Bicocca and Pavia between 2014 and 2018, with projects on Spina and Verucchio. In 2019 and 2020 I have worked at the University of Pavia as Adjunct Professor, teaching Archaeological Methods and Theory.
I have been visting scholar at Aarhus, Prague, and Edinburgh, with shorter periods in Kiel and Copenhagen.
My areas of interest are Iron Age and Roman societies in Northern Italy and Central Europe, addressing early urbanism, rurality and subalternity, material culture and trade, funerary archaeology, history of archaeology and archives.
I have published 2 monographic books, 10 edited volumes, and over 80 articles and book chapters.
I am currently PI of the PRIN2022 RuRES project, and of the excavation project at Calvatone-Bedriacum funded by the University of Milan.
Address: Prof Lorenzo Zamboni
University of Milan
Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment
via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122 Milano, Italy
Email: lorenzo.zamboni@unimi.it
I studied at the universities of Milan and Pavia, defending a PhD thesis on the trading hub of Spina. I worked as postdoctoral fellow at the universities of Milano-Bicocca and Pavia between 2014 and 2018, with projects on Spina and Verucchio. In 2019 and 2020 I have worked at the University of Pavia as Adjunct Professor, teaching Archaeological Methods and Theory.
I have been visting scholar at Aarhus, Prague, and Edinburgh, with shorter periods in Kiel and Copenhagen.
My areas of interest are Iron Age and Roman societies in Northern Italy and Central Europe, addressing early urbanism, rurality and subalternity, material culture and trade, funerary archaeology, history of archaeology and archives.
I have published 2 monographic books, 10 edited volumes, and over 80 articles and book chapters.
I am currently PI of the PRIN2022 RuRES project, and of the excavation project at Calvatone-Bedriacum funded by the University of Milan.
Address: Prof Lorenzo Zamboni
University of Milan
Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment
via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122 Milano, Italy
Email: lorenzo.zamboni@unimi.it
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The fundamental premise of the Cremona meeting was to foster a critical and comparative approach to the study of handmade and/or semi‑fine domestic decorated pottery from the Late Iron Age and the Roman period. To this end, the meeting brought together scholars from France, northern Italy, Austria, Germany, Poland, and Bohemia, who presented and discussed a range of regional productions and styles.
The 26 chapters included in this book provide a combination of theoretical and methodological insights into urbanisation processes, regional overviews, and up-to-date evidence from key archaeological sites. The latter comprise both well-established names such as the Heuneburg, Vix-Mont Lassois, Verucchio, Marzabotto, and Spina, as well as other sites that are less well-known but equally relevant for the understanding of centralisation processes during the Iron Age.
In particular, this volume brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban and proto-urban sites in northern Italy, a region that has traditionally been neglected or underestimated in accounts on Iron Age urbanisation. Thus, the book transcends previous barriers in scholarship and helps to readdress one of the most attractive topics of current archaeological research: the multiple and nonlinear pathways towards urbanisation.
Vengono qui offerte sintesi territoriali e diacroniche di ampio respiro, analisi di progetti di ricognizione e strumenti di tutela, e studi dettagliati su contesti di scavo di abitato a San Leo, Rimini-Covignano e, soprattutto, sull’insediamento di Verucchio in località Pian del Monte, dove si susseguono fin dall’Ottocento scoperte e ricerche che, edite qui nel loro insieme per la prima volta, permettono di ricostruire la fisionomia dell’antico abitato dell’età del Ferro.
I sepolcreti emiliani del periodo arcaico, emersi dal terreno fin dalla seconda metà dell'Ottocento, avevano attirato l'attenzione di generazioni di paletnologi ed etruscologi, senza però essere stati oggetto di indagini sistematiche. La recente scoperta di nuovi nuclei di tombe, in occasione dei lavori per il tratto Alta Velocità Milano-Bologna, ha indotto a riconsiderare il problema nella sua interezza, impostando un catalogo di siti e corredi funerari. Il loro inquadramento complessivo ha poi offerto l'occasione per una discussione delle diverse tipologie di materiale, e per una più ampia riflessione sui modelli interpretativi storico-sociali.
The volume presents the outcomes of a research project directed by Maria Teresa Grassi on the vicus of Calvatone-Bedriacum. From 2005 to 2013, the University of Milan investigated a sector of the Roman settlement, revealing the remains of a production complex situated between two residential areas. The chapters show the primary excavation evidence and highlight the most significant contexts and classes of materials for reconstructing the life and abandonment of a bakery from the 1st century AD. This is situated within the broader framework of the urban planning of the vicus and the population of the Cisalpine Gaul.
Flos Italiae 14 -- Documenti di archeologia della Cisalpina Romana
Papers by Lorenzo Zamboni
becoming some of the most challenging and debated topics in prehistoric and
protohistoric archaeology. The regions between the Mediterranean and Central Europe
in the 1st millennium BC represent promising case studies, given the quantity and
variability of archaeological, environmental, and historical sources.
This article aims at addressing issues of social differentiation and self-representation, starting from a deconstructive critique not only of the culture historical tradition, but also of the concepts of ethnicity and identity