New evidence on the southeast Baltic Late Bronze Age agrarian intensification and the earliest AMS dates of Lens culinaris and Vicia faba

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolis Minkevičius ◽  
Vytenis Podėnas ◽  
Miglė Urbonaitė-Ubė ◽  
Edvinas Ubis ◽  
Dalia Kisielienė
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Vicia Faba ◽  
Lens Culinaris ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Ams Dates

The antiquity of the Greek epic tradition: some new evidence

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.C. Horrocks
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Epic Tradition ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Greek Epic ◽  
Careful Handling ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Bronze Age

Since the decipherment of Linear B a number of scholars have argued, on the basis of supposed Mycenaean survivals in the Homeric poems, that the Greek legendary poetic tradition ran continuously from the Bronze Age through the Dark Age down to the singers of the Ionian towns in the ninth and eighth centuries. However, the directness of the connection between the narrative poetry of the Mycenaean Age, if indeed such existed, and the subsequent development of the Epic in Greece has been called into question. Thus Shipp, for example, has argued that most of the items listed by Chadwick in his article Mycenaean elements in the Homeric dialect in fact left their mark for a time at least on forms of Greek other than that of the Epic, and so could well have entered this tradition in post-Mycenaean times and in some other way than through a direct poetical current from the Bronze Age. A similar conclusion has been reached by Kirk, who has expressed his views forcefully in a series of publications. Consider the following:The two objective criteria for dating elements within the Homeric poems, namely archaeology and language, require careful handling and reveal less than is generally claimed for them. They enable certain elements to be recognized as having existed as early as the late Bronze Age, but do not necessarily prove that these all passed into the Ionian Epic tradition by the medium of late Bronze Age poetry.

Miletos: a note

2004 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Mountjoy
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence

The date of the final destruction of Late Bronze Age Miletos is examined in the light of new evidence from Ugarit, which has allowed the date of the destruction at that site to be more accurately assessed. A comparison of the pottery in the destruction layer at Miletos with that in the destruction layer at Ugarit suggests that Miletos might have been destroyed at an earlier date than usually thought.

Late Bronze Age copper production in Timna: new evidence from Site 3

Levant ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omri A. Yagel ◽  
Erez Ben-Yosef ◽  
and Paul T. Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Copper Production ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals Food, Technology and Culture in the Late Bronze Age of Southern Britain: Perforated Clay Plates of the Lower Thames Valley

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY CHAMPION
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Food Preparation ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Food Technology ◽  
Perforated Plates ◽  
Technology And Culture ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
New Evidence

Perforated plates of fired clay have long been recognised as a component of Late Bronze Age material culture in south-eastern England, but recent developer-funded excavations have produced a wealth of new evidence. These artefacts, showing a considerable degree of standardisation, are now known from more than 70 sites, which show a markedly riverine and estuarine distribution along the lower Thames. Their function is still uncertain, but it is suggested that they were parts of ovens for baking bread, a new technology for food preparation in the later Bronze Age. Some of the largest assemblages of such plates are found at strongly defended sites, and it is further suggested that the baking and consumption of bread was particularly associated with such sites of social authority. The estuarine distribution is discussed in this paper, and it presents further evidence for the regionally distinctive nature of food consumption in later prehistory.

New evidence for an early date for the Aegean Late Bronze Age and Thera eruption

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (293) ◽  
pp. 733-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sturt W. Manning ◽  
Christopher Bronk Ramsey ◽  
Christos Doumas ◽  
Toula Marketou ◽  
Gerald Cadogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Organic Material ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Early Date ◽  
Radiocarbon Data ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Thera Eruption

The authors report on radiocarbon data derived from carefully selected organic material from Late Minoan IA and IB contexts. The results suggest that the accepted chronology of the period should be revised by 100 years and that the eruption of Thera/Santorini most likely occurred c. 1650–1620 BC.

Late Cypriot I A maritime trade in action: underwater survey at MaroniTsaroukkasand the contemporary east Mediterranean trading system

2002 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 97-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sturt W. Manning ◽  
David A. Sewell ◽  
Ellen Herscher
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
New Evidence

The period from the late Middle Bronze Age to the start of the Late Bronze Age in the Levant, largely coeval with the Canaanite, ‘Hyksos“, 15th Dynasty of Egypt, is characterized by the appearance of Late Cypriot I A ceramics at a number of key sites in the east Mediterranean. The exact absolute dates to apply to this period have been the subject of controversy, in part inter-linked with debate over the date of the eruption of Thera, but scholarship recognises that this visible horizon of international trade must have been of considerable significance, especially on Cyprus itself. Here a dramatic shift in settlement to the coastal areas of the island at the beginning of the Late Cypriot period has long been recognized; this is also the time period of the formation of larger complex socio-political entities at the sites on Cyprus which go on to comprise the Late Cypriot ‘urban“ civilisation. Tombs of the relevant Middle Cypriot III–Late Cypriot I period are well known on Cyprus, but stratified settlement contexts on Cyprus, yet alone contexts directly related to such international trade, are scarce to non-existent. We report finds of just such direct relevance from a (currently) unique deposit as a result of an initial investigation of the seabed off the Late Cypriot site of MaroniTsaroukkason the south coast of Cyprus (MTSB Site 1). Consideration of these finds provides important new evidence for the Late Cypriot I A period; they also indicate routes to more sophisticated analyses of Cypriot–east Mediterranean interaction and the resolution of current problems in chronology. In particular, a review of Late Cypriot I A connections highlights the need to emphasise the central importance of the Canaanite pre-18th Dynasty (late Middle Bronze Age) world to the formative development of both Late Bronze Age Cyprus, and the Late Bronze Age Aegean.

New Evidence for Ugaritic and Hittite Onomastics and Prosopography at the End of the Late Bronze Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-211
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Burlingame
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn this article, data appearing in recently published Akkadian letters from the House of ʾUrtēnu (Ugarit) are applied to reach solutions to several Ugaritic onomastic and prosopographic problems. The results allow for clearer etymological evaluation of several personal names and a number of plausible prosopographic identifications, including two that are arguably relevant to Hittite prosopography and chronology. They further contribute to ongoing efforts devoted to exploring the relationship between Ḫatti and Ugarit in the final decades of the Late Bronze Age.This study has been completed during the course of a research fellowship at the Collège de France and has been facilitated by the hospitality of Professor Thomas Römer (Chair, Milieux bibliques, Collège de France) and the library of the Institut du Proche-Orient ancien. The many helpful suggestions from Dennis Pardee, Robert Hawley, Petra Goedegebuure, Theo van den Hout, Ilya Yakubovich, Madadh Richey, and the anonymous reviewers of this article are also gratefully acknowledged here, though I bear sole responsibility for any shortcomings.

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