TY - JOUR
T1 - Late helladic to middle geometric aegean and contemporary cypriot chronologies
T2 - A radiocarbon view from the levant
AU - Fantalkin, Alexander
AU - Finkelstein, Israel
AU - Piasetzky, Eli
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Schools of Oriental Research.
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - The article proposes a radiocarbon-based dating scheme for the entire Aegean ceramic se-quence, 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 "chronol-ogy 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 Hel-ladic 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 Conven-tional Aegean Chronology (Low Chronology in Levantine terms), in line with a recent radiocar-bon 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.
AB - The article proposes a radiocarbon-based dating scheme for the entire Aegean ceramic se-quence, 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 "chronol-ogy 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 Hel-ladic 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 Conven-tional Aegean Chronology (Low Chronology in Levantine terms), in line with a recent radiocar-bon 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.
KW - Aegean
KW - Cypro-geometric
KW - Geometric
KW - Late Bronze and iron age chronology
KW - Late Cypriot
KW - Late Helladic III
KW - Levant
KW - Proto-Geometric
KW - Radiocarbon dating
KW - Sub-Mycenaean
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U2 - 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.373.0025
DO - 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.373.0025
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AN - SCOPUS:85019418439
SN - 0003-097X
VL - 373
SP - 25
EP - 48
JO - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
JF - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
ER -