Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 25-48 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| Volume | 373 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 American Schools of Oriental Research.
Keywords
- Aegean
- Cypro-geometric
- Geometric
- Late Bronze and iron age chronology
- Late Cypriot
- Late Helladic III
- Levant
- Proto-Geometric
- Radiocarbon dating
- Sub-Mycenaean
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Archaeology
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Archaeology