Marialucia Amadio

Unlocking the Legacy of Ayia Irini–Paleokastro: Reassessing an Early-Excavated Late Bronze Age Cemetery in Cyprus

Marialucia Amadio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Siena, specializing in micromorphological and integrated approaches to the study of occupation deposits and building materials. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of the built environment in prehistoric Mediterranean contexts. She earned her PhD from the University of Reading (UK) with a thesis on Bronze Age Cyprus, exploring the relationship between technological innovation and social expression in architecture. Her postdoctoral research has been conducted at the Universities of Turin and Pisa, as well as at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she applied multiscalar and interdisciplinary methods to the study of building materials, floor sequences, and spatial practices, with particular attention to abandonment processes in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus. She has also contributed to the ERC-funded project DAEDALOS at Ghent University. She is the Scientific Coordinator of the Erimi Archaeological Project in Cyprus, and actively collaborates with several national and international research initiatives.  Dr. Amadio is the author of Building in Prehistoric Cyprus: Tracing Transformations in the Built and Social Environment of Early Cypriot Communities (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2024).