Late Helladic to Middle Geometric Aegean and Contemporary Cypriot Chronologies: A Radiocarbon View from the Levant
The article proposes a radiocarbon-based dating scheme for the entire Aegean ceramic sequence, from the Late Helladic IIIB2 to the Middle Geometric II, with implications for the Late Cypriot IIC to Cypro-Geometric III ceramic phases. It accomplishes this by exercising "chronology by proxy"...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2015
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2015, Issue: 373, Pages: 25-48 |
RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament HH Archaeology KBK Europe (East) KBL Near East and North Africa TB Antiquity |
Further subjects: | B
Late Helladic III
B Cyprus B Iron Age B Aegean B Cypro-Geometric B Sub-Mycenaean B Aegean Sea B Geometric B Late Bronze and Iron Age chronology B Middle East B Late Cypriot B Radiocarbon dating B Levant B Proto-Geometric B Bronze Age |
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Summary: | The article proposes a radiocarbon-based dating scheme for the entire Aegean ceramic sequence, from the Late Helladic IIIB2 to the Middle Geometric II, with implications for the Late Cypriot IIC to Cypro-Geometric III ceramic phases. It accomplishes this by exercising "chronology by proxy"--that is, turning to radiocarbon-dated strata in the Levant that produced Aegean, Aegean-related, and corresponding Cypriot pottery items that represent most of the Late Helladic IIIB-Middle Geometric sequence. The article describes these contexts in the Levant and the above-mentioned items found in them, and then reports the results of a radiocarbon Bayesian model for their dating. The dates presented here support, with a few adjustments, the Conventional Aegean Chronology (Low Chronology in Levantine terms), in line with a recent radiocarbon dating of the Sub-Mycenaean/Early Proto-Geometric transition according to samples from Greece, as well as other models for the Iron Age in the Levant. |
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ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.373.0025 |