TY - JOUR
T1 - Aegean pottery in iron iia megiddo
T2 - Typological, archaeometric and chronological aspects
AU - Fantalkin, Alexander
AU - Kleiman, Assaf
AU - Mommsen, Hans
AU - Finkelstein, Israel
N1 - Funding Information:
Regional Project (JVRP), Fuller Theological Seminary and Loyola Marymount University. The Expedition is directed by Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University), Matthew J. Adams (W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research) and Mario A.S. Martin (Tel Aviv University). The excavation of Area Q was carried out during five full-scale seasons, conducted in 2008 and 2010 (supervisor Norma Franklin), 2012, 2014 and 2016 (supervisor Robert S. Homsher), and several short, geoarchaeology-oriented seasons in 2011 and 2013. The current study was supported by the Dan David Foundation, Mark Weissman and Jacques Chahine. We are thankful to the staff of the research reactor of the Reactor Institute Delft, Delft University of Technology, for irradiating the samples.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The revival of economic and cultural contacts between Greece and the Levant during the early first millennium BCE has received much attention in scholarship, as Aegean imports found in the Eastern Mediterranean provide a reliable framework for inter-regional synchronization. In this article, we discuss Aegean sherds that were found in stratified Iron IIA contexts during recent excavations at Megiddo, one of the crucial sites for the establishment of Greek Protogeometric and Geometric chronology. An archaeometric analysis of these sherds suggests that some of them originated in Euboea. The specific Aegean provenance of the other fragments remains uncertain, but based on typological observations, two items, probably from the same vessel, appear to have originated from an Aegean milieu. The exposure of such imports at Megiddo, with its well-established stratigraphy, ceramic typology and radiocarbon dating system, is another contribution to the chronological synchronization of Greece and the Levant in the early first millennium BCE.
AB - The revival of economic and cultural contacts between Greece and the Levant during the early first millennium BCE has received much attention in scholarship, as Aegean imports found in the Eastern Mediterranean provide a reliable framework for inter-regional synchronization. In this article, we discuss Aegean sherds that were found in stratified Iron IIA contexts during recent excavations at Megiddo, one of the crucial sites for the establishment of Greek Protogeometric and Geometric chronology. An archaeometric analysis of these sherds suggests that some of them originated in Euboea. The specific Aegean provenance of the other fragments remains uncertain, but based on typological observations, two items, probably from the same vessel, appear to have originated from an Aegean milieu. The exposure of such imports at Megiddo, with its well-established stratigraphy, ceramic typology and radiocarbon dating system, is another contribution to the chronological synchronization of Greece and the Levant in the early first millennium BCE.
KW - Aegean Pottery
KW - Chronology
KW - Euboea
KW - Greece
KW - Iron IIA
KW - Levant
KW - Megiddo
KW - NAA Analysis
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U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.3960190
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.3960190
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AN - SCOPUS:85092059028
SN - 1108-9628
VL - 20
SP - 135
EP - 147
JO - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
JF - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
IS - 3
ER -