The Twilight of the Early Helladics: A Study of the Disturbances in East-Central and Southern Greece towards the End of the Early Bronze Age

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 611
Author(s):  
Donald R. Keller ◽  
Jeannette Forsen
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
East Central ◽  
Southern Greece

Muş in the Early Bronze Age

1997 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell S. Rothman ◽  
Gülriz Kozbe
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Marginal Zone ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Large Area ◽  
East Central ◽  
Eastern Turkey ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Great Culture ◽  
Near Future

In 1991 a crew of American, Canadian, and Turkish researchers began a new and comprehensive survey in the Muş Province of Eastern Turkey. The goal of the survey was to study the evolution of settlement and landuse in a marginal zone at the intersection of four great culture areas of the Middle East: Central Anatolia, Western Iran, the Transcaucasus, and Mesopotamia.This area of Eastern Turkey had been visited previously by I. K. Kökten in 1940s (1947) and Charles Burney in 1950s (1958). Given the large area these surveyors covered and their limited means of transportation, and given the newly excavated material coming from north of the great Taurus mountain massif and from Van (e.g., Sagona 1994, Sagona et al 1992, Çilingiroğlu 1987, 1988), a more comprehensive effort appeared warranted. The first season was six weeks in duration. During that time we re-visited 17 of the sites found by Kökten and Burney, and located 11 new sites. A second season was launched in 1993 with the aim of covering areas not surveyed previously (see Figure 1), mostly in the northern foothills and higher elevations near Hamurpet Lake. Unfortunately, conditions did not permit us to do a second season, nor is a season in the very near future likely. We, therefore, will be publishing the results we have already arrived at, aware that our sample is not complete.

Grave-goods, contexts and interpretation: towards regional narratives of Early Bronze Age Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil C.A. Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
East Central ◽  
North East ◽  
The Rich

This paper proposes that a contextual approach is required to make the most of the rich and diverse evidence for Early Bronze Age funerary practices in Scotland. It reviews the spatial patterning of the principal funerary traditions and identifies significant regional differences in their popularity by region. The chronological relationship between Beaker and Food Vessel burials is then reviewed in the light of new radiocarbon dates. Both distributional and chronological factors then contribute to a refined, regional and contextual approach to Beaker typology. The paper concludes by bringing these various strands together within the geographical and historical context of North-East and East-Central Scotland, in order to provide two regional ‘narratives’ of social organisation and identity.

Chronology of Greece and South-east Europe in the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

1999 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 319-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Date ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
East Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequences ◽  
Southern Greece ◽  
Of Greece

Final Neolithic to Early Bronze Age chronology in Greece remains obscure due to a lack of stratified deposits and radiocarbon dates. In this paper the Greek evidence is considered in the light of typological parallels, stratigraphic sequences, and the larger series of radiocarbon dates available from the south-east European cultures, and a tentative chronology for Greece and south-east Europe is presented. The evidence does not support the earlier notion of an overlap between the Thessalian Rachmani period and the Early Helladic period of southern Greece, but rather suggests that Rachmani is essentially contemporary with the southern Greek Final Neolithic. The Final Neolithic–Early Bronze Age transition in southern Greece shows affinities to Petromagoula in Thessaly and the Boleráz culture of Europe. Several radiocarbon dates place the Boleráz period in the early 5th millennium BP, suggesting that dates from FN–EBA transitional contexts in Greece may, in the future, help to fill the existing early 5th millennium gap in the Greek radiocarbon date series.

Rillenkarren at Vayia: geomorphology and a new class of Early Bronze Age fortified settlement in Southern Greece

Antiquity ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (307) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Tartaron ◽  
Daniel J. Pullen ◽  
Jay S. Noller
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
New Class ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Site Survey ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Southern Greece

With ever more inhibited programmes of excavation, new methods of site survey are always welcome. Here a soil geomorphologist joins forces with archaeologists to read the history of limestone blocks exposed on the surface at sites in southern Greece. Rillenkarren for example are vertical grooves caused by rainfall on stones that remained for long periods in the same place. These and other observations showed that what looked like clearance cairns had in fact been piled up in the Early Bronze Age and led in turn to the definition of a new type of settlement.

Early Bronze Age Development in the Keban Reservoir, East-Central Turkey

1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Whallon, ◽  
Sonmez Kantman
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central Turkey

Mainland Greece (Prehistoric)

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
David Smith
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
The Status ◽  
Southern Greece

The absence of the prehistoric Peloponnese and central Greece from last year's new format Archaeology in Greece has provided a slightly larger volume of data for this year's report than might otherwise have been expected, although the ongoing financial difficulties faced by Greece and the recent uncertainty over the status of the Archaeological Service itself continue to have a substantial impact on archaeological research and its dissemination through traditional channels; a problem which e-publication and webcasting is going some way toward addressing. In light of this, the decennial volume of the former Ministry of Culture and Tourism (www.yppo.gr/0/anaskafes), the appearance of which was noted in last year's AG, represents a welcome summary of excavation undertaken by the service between 2000 and 2010 to add to the newly-published volume of ADelt covering the Peloponnese. Some of this work has previously been reported in AG, although this is certainly not true of all.Several other publications have appeared since 2011 which offer new data or new perspectives on the prehistory of the Greek mainland, several of which are discussed below. Of particular note are two volumes which will go some considerable way toward furthering our understanding of the Early Bronze Age in southern Greece: Daniel Pullen's The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill (2011) and Elizabeth Banks' The Architecture, Settlement and Stratigraphy of Lerna IV (2013), the companion piece to Jeremy Rutter's 1995 volume detailing the pottery from the Early Helladic III settlement. Banks' volume, unfortunately, has appeared too late to be properly incorporated into this year's AG.

Tracing the Absolute Time-Frame of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean

Radiocarbon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora Arvaniti ◽  
Yannis Maniatis
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Statistical Treatment ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
First Time ◽  
Southern Greece

AbstractThe Early Bronze Age (EBA) is associated with technological and cultural changes that may suggest the onset of a new culture. The question usually posed is whether the spread of the EBA culture is a matter of contemporary evolutionary practices or a matter of migration of peoples. We contribute to this discussion by tracing the appearance and spread of the EBA in the Aegean using an absolute time-frame provided by more than 200 radiocarbon (14C) dates from 25 different Aegean sites. These have been compiled and statistically treated, individually, and in geographical groups to allow temporal and spatial comparisons. A new model is constructed for the first time for northern Greece. The dates are compared between various settlements and areas in each of the traditional cultural divisions EBA I, EBA II, and EBA III and possible subdivisions. The statistical treatment and comparisons indicate that the EBA appeared slightly earlier, around 3300 BC, in northern Greece than in southern Greece, and the Cycladic Islands and also lasted longer in some areas in northern Greece, ending at around 1900 BC.

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