Some Aegean Reactions to the Chronological Debate in the Southern Levant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11974578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicolas Coldstream (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-258 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tel Aviv (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0334-4355 • E-ISSN: 2040-4786 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/tav.2003.2003.2.247 |
| OpenAlex | W2063370978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper presents an Aegean angle on the current discussion about Early Iron Age chronology in the eastern half of the Mediterranean. Although lacking any evidence for absolute dates, the Aegean possesses a sound relative sequence, firmly based on several hundred closed groups, in single graves, of whole pots; these show a clear development evident in gradual changes of shape and of painted decoration. These small 'chronological calls' help to illustrate the pace of stylistic development in the various regional schools of Protogeometric and Geometric pottery.Early Greek exports to five sites in the Southern Levant—Samaria, Megiddo, Tel Rehov, Tel Hadar and Tel Dor—offer some hope of pegging the Greek sequence to reliable absolute dates obtained from Near Eastern historical records. Even if the quality of these correlations may sometimes be far from ideal, their cumulative evidence nevertheless produces an internally coherent picture for the Greek relative sequence. And, when one is face to face with a choice between the 'high' and 'low' chronologies currently being advanced in the southern Levant, the latter alternative offers by far the more credible pace of stylistic change in the Aegean
Absolute (philosophy · Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Chronology · Geodesy · Geography · Linguistics · Middle East · Pace · Persian · Pottery · Sequence (biology · Southern Levant · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy
The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age
Dor, the Carmel Coast and the Earliest Phoenician Maritime Ventures
Greece and the Levant in the 10th–9th centuries BC
Late Helladic to Middle Geometric Aegean and Contemporary Cypriot Chronologies
Radiocarbon‐dated Destruction Layers
Dating the Iron Age I/II Transition in Israel
Iron Age Mediterranean Chronology
Testing the Limits
Report on the First Stage of the Iron Age Dating Project in Israel
The Iron Age Chronology Debate
Before the Omrides
Radiocarbon dating the Iron Age in the Levant
Low Chronology and Greek Protogeometric and Geometric Pottery in the Southern Levant
Greek Geometric Pottery at Hama and its Implications for Near Eastern Chronology
The Rehabilitation of Bocchoris
Further Excavation of the Toumba Cemetery at Lefkandi, 1981
Attic Geometric Workshops
Early Iron Age Radiometric Dates from Tel Dor
Pithekoussai I
Greek Geometric Pottery
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.62 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |