scholarly journals PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS OF THE NETWORK OF DEFENCE SETTLEMENTS FROM THE BRONZE AGE BETWEEN THE BIEBRZA AND NAREW (NE POLAND)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Żurek ◽  
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Tomasz Kalicki ◽  
Paweł Przepióra ◽  
Marcin Frączek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Ne Poland ◽  
Geophysical Surveys ◽  
The Bronze Age

The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2015. Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke. Preliminary results

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 33-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Fischer ◽  
Teresa Bürge ◽  
Dominika Kofel
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ground Penetrating Radar ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Geomagnetic Survey ◽  
New City ◽  
Ground Penetrating ◽  
Large Compound ◽  
The Bronze Age

In 2015 the sixth season of the renewed excavations at the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke continued in the compound which was ex­posed in Area 6W in 2013–2014. Further evidence of textile process­ing was found. The results of another ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in 2014 indicated a new city quarter west of the former. Exca­vations were initiated there in 2015 and parts of the remains of a large compound were exposed. Two occupational phases, Strata 1 and 2, could be determined, both of which were destroyed in a conflagration. Further excavations were carried out in Area A, 550 m to the east of Area 6W and close to the mosque of Hala Sultan Tekke. In 2014 more than 80 circular anomalies were indicated by our geomagnetic survey supported by GPR. Twelve of them were excavated in 2015. Most of them turned out to be backfilled wells of which the fills mainly date from the 13th and 12th centuries BC (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA). One of the excavated anomalies is interpreted as an offering pit. The preliminary date according to the pottery is roughly the 15th century BC (Late Cypriot IB).

scholarly journals Obsidian from the Bronze Age Village of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands: A Preliminary Investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Tiziana Levi ◽  
Diego Calliari ◽  
Marta Arzarello ◽  
Valentina Cannavò ◽  
Andrea Di Renzoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Aeolian Islands ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Production Areas ◽  
Non Destructive ◽  
The Bronze Age

AbstractWe present the preliminary results of the ongoing investigation of the obsidian from the Bronze Age village of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, for the purpose of providing technological and typological characterization, and also provenance of the raw material, the latter with non-destructive p-XRF. Regarding provenance, the source of the raw material is likely to be neighbouring Lipari. It was transported to Stromboli and used mostly in a highly opportunistic manner and for the production of blade(let), non-bladelike tools (mainly scrapers) and micro bladelets. The obsidian distribution around the site shows concentration in both domestic and production areas.

scholarly journals Absolute Dating of the Bronze Age Defensive Settlement in Horodnianka (NE Poland)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 993-1001
Author(s):  
Marek Krapiec ◽  
Monika Bolka ◽  
Jerzy Brzozowski
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Archaeological Wood ◽  
Ne Poland ◽  
Dendrochronological Analysis ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Bronze Age

In 2008–2009, during construction of the ring road around the town of Sztabin in NE Poland, archaeological rescue excavations were carried out at site no. 12 in Horodnianka. The excavations revealed the remains of a defensive settlement from the Bronze Age, with a total surface of 3 ha. Concentric wooden palisades reinforcing the settlement were situated on sandy, elevated embankments of the Biebrza River. Altogether, 189 samples of archaeological wood, mainly oak (Quercus sp.), were collected. Dendrochronological analysis demonstrated that the trees were cut down within a relatively short period of only 22 yr. On the basis of 22 contemporaneous dendrochronological sequences, the average curve HOR_AA1 (89 yr long) was constructed. However, attempts at dating the average curve against the chronologies from adjacent areas were unsuccessful. Therefore, determination of the time interval represented by the palisade oaks was attempted with the wiggle-matching method. Radiocarbon dating using liquid scintillation counting (LSC) was conducted for 6 suitable samples selected from the average curve. The 14C results, after calibration, suggest the dates of cutting the oaks outlining the Horodnianka chronology most probably fall in the time interval 870–795 cal BC. This means that Horodnianka could be the furthest northeastern defensive fortification of the Lusatian culture.

Archaeological and Palaeo-environmental Investigations of the Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset (1998–2000): a New Model of Earlier Holocene Landscape Development

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 201-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles French ◽  
Helen Lewis ◽  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Robert G. Scaife ◽  
Martin Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Landscape Dynamics ◽  
Landscape Development ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Deciduous Woodland ◽  
Structured Clay ◽  
Photographic Survey ◽  
The Bronze Age

A combination of on- and off-site palaeo-environmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen valley of Dorset conducted in 1998–2000 has begun to reveal a different model of landscape development than those previously put forward. A combination of off-site geoarchaeological and aerial photographic survey and palynological analyses of two relict palaeochannel systems, and sample investigations of four Bronze Age round barrows and a Neolithic enclosure, have been combined with inter-regional summaries of the archaeological and molluscan records to re-examine the prehistoric landscape dynamics in the study area. Preliminary results suggest that woodland development in the earlier Holocene appears to have been more patchy than the presumed model of full climax deciduous woodland. With open areas still present in the Mesolithic, the area witnessed its first exploitation of the chalk downs, thus slowing and altering soil development of the downlands. Consequently, many areas perhaps never developed thick, well structured, clay-enriched soils (or argillic brown earths), but rather thin brown earths. By the later Neolithic these under-developed soils had become thin rendzinas, largely as a consequence of human exploitation. The presence of thinner and less well-developed soils over large areas of downland removes the necessity for envisaging extensive soil erosion and thick aggraded deposits in the valley bottom in later prehistory. The investigations have suggested that, if there were major changes in vegetation and soil complexes, these had already occurred by the Neolithic rather than in the Bronze Age as suggested by previous researchers, and the area has remained relatively stable since.

scholarly journals La prima urbanizzazione in Turkmenistan: coesistenza tra nomadi e sedentari nel delta interno del fiume Murghab

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Arciero ◽  
Luca Forni
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Alluvial Fan ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Mobile Pastoralists ◽  
Harsh Climate ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Desert Landscape ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Modern Turkmenistan is mainly constituted by a desert landscape, yet despite its harsh climate, cultures have been able to construct networks of water channels since the Bronze Age. This has resulted in a man-made landscape that integrates towns and villages. Extensive surveys and recent archaeological excavations have highlighted that between 2400 and 2100 BC (Namazga V period), the region of the Murghab alluvial fan was characterised by the development of complex urban societies. However, starting from the Late Bronze Age, a new group of mobile pastoralists appeared in the Murghab region and settled along the edges of the sedentary sites. Although their presence is well-attested both by survey and excavation data, their degree of interaction with the sedentary farmers is still debated. In modern Turkmenistan, semi-mobile shepherds continue to drive their cattle across the Murghab, using mobile camps for different months. This paper presents the preliminary results of the excavation of the sedentary site of Togolok 1, as well as the first ethnographic study of the mobile communities of the Murghab region.

scholarly journals Late Holocene Changes in Vegetation of the Mrągowo Lakeland (Ne Poland) as Registered in the Pollen Record From Lake Salęt

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Szal ◽  
Mirosława Kupryjanowicz ◽  
Mariusz Wyczółkowski
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Structure ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Pollen Record ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Ne Poland ◽  
Bottom Deposits ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Bronze Age

Abstract Pollen analysis of sediments from the upper part of bottom deposits from Lake Salęt allowed reconstruction of main stages of the Late Holocene vegetation transformation in the Mrągowo Lake District (from ca. 3600 cal. years BC) and to correlate some of these changes with immigration and economic activity of local human groups. Significant spreading of secondary semi-natural birch forest, development of horn beam forest and increasing importance of anthropogenic open communities were the most characteristic features of vegetation evolution. A definite break down of elm took place between 2900 and 2500 cal. years BC, slightly after increased contribution of birch in wood lands. Disappearance of hazel around 1200 cal. years BC, accompanied by expansion of horn beam has been observed and should be linked with activity of the Ząbie-Szestno type culture and the Lusatian culture tribes during the Bronze Age, but not with a climate change. Considerable intensification of settlement processes recorded in the younger part of the Subatlantic chronozone was one of the important reasons that were responsible for quick changes in forest structure. Strong and continued deforestation started as early as the end of the 10th century AD and was substantially intensified in the first half of the 13th century.

The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke (The Söderberg Expedition). Preliminary results

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 50-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fischer ◽  
Teresa Bürge ◽  
Laerke Recht ◽  
Dominika Kofel ◽  
David Kaniewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Large Vessel ◽  
The South ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Gold Jewellery ◽  
Geomagnetic Survey ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Stone Structures ◽  
Three Phases

In the seventh season at the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke excavations continued in City Quarter 1 (CQ1) where georadar indicated stone structures to the south of the area excavated in 2010–2012. Massive domestic structures, which belong to three phases of occupation (Strata 1–3), were exposed. Both the most recent Stratum 1, and Stratum 2 were destroyed in a conflagration. The three phases are preliminarily dated to the 13th and 12th centuries BC. Excavations were also carried out in Area A, roughly 600 m to the south-east of CQ1. Seven circular anomalies indicated by our geomagnetic survey were excavated. Two were pits of modern date, and three were identified as Late Cypriot wells. Another anomaly turned out to represent a rich Late Cypriot offering pit with figurines and more than 60 ceramic vessels. Amongst the Mycenaean vessels are several “chariot kraters” and a large vessel with the oversized image of a female robed in a splendidly adorned Minoan-style dress. The remaining anomaly probably represents a tomb of a very wealthy family so far containing, inter alia, 80 locally produced and imported vessels, gold jewellery, weapons, scarabs, and seals. The material in the offering pit and the tomb reflects far-reaching intercultural connections in the period from the 16th to the 13th centuries BC.

scholarly journals ЭТАПЫ ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ ПОСЕЛЕНИЯ БРОНЗОВОГО ВЕКА ЛЕВОБЕРЕЖНОЕ (СИНТАШТА II) В ЗАУРАЛЬЕ (ХРОНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Epimakhov ◽  
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F. Petrov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Bronze Age

The work presents the preliminary results of serial radiocarbon dating of the Bronze Age settlement Levoberezhnoe (Sintashta II) in the Southern Trans-Urals. 12 radiocarbon dates were obtained using AMS-technology. Their values are clearly divided into two groups: Sintashta and Petrovka (20–18 centuries cal BC) and the final part of the Bronze Age (14–11 centuries cal BC). In addition, a single date for the Cherkaskul cultural layer was obtained. The area of the settlement was exploited (apparently, with interruptions) by bearers of different archaeological traditions throughout the entire 2nd millennium cal BC.

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