The Middle Bronze Age Settlement Pattern of the Eastern Anatolian High Plateau in Light of New Evidence

2006 ◽  
pp. 160-171
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
High Plateau ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence

An Archaeological Investigation of Early Mineworkings on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth: New Evidence for Prehistoric Mining

1988 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 329-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Timberlake ◽  
Roy Switsur
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Mine Workings ◽  
Prehistoric Mining ◽  
The Hill ◽  
New Evidence

In September 1986 a small excavation was done by S. T. to investigate an area of primitive-style mine-workings on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, Dyfed (SN816756). A small opencast and several overgrown tips associated with pebble hammers occur where the copper-rich Comet Lode outcrops on the brow of the hill. Copa Hill is within an area of seventeenth–twentieth-century lead-mine workings which extend for 1.2 km along the N side of the Ystwyth Valley (fig. 1). Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from within one of the tips suggests that mining commenced in the middle Bronze Age.

New Evidence for the Early History of Palaepaphos

1983 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 229-233
Author(s):  
F. G. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence

Material from earlier as well as recent excavations at Palaepaphos is considered; it is now clear that a considerable quantity of pottery was imported from the Aegean during the thirteenth century and earlier; this is summarily described. Evidence for a Chalcolithic settlement is analysed. Finally, pottery from the intervening Middle Bronze Age is advanced as an indication of occupation at Kouklia in MC II–MC III times.

New Evidence from Dalma and Kura-Araxes Culture at Tapeh Qal‘e-ye-Sarsakhti

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Abedi ◽  
Nasir Eskandari ◽  
Hamid Khatib Shahidi ◽  
Ismail Sharahi ◽  
Gholam Shirzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Zagros Mountains ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Iranian Plateau ◽  
East Central ◽  
Culture Influence ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
New Evidence

Tapeh Qal‘eh-ye-Sarsakhti is located between the Central Iranian Plateau and the Zagros Mountains, specifically in the entrance threshold to the Central Iranian Plateau from the eastern part of Central Zagros. It is a rich site including several periods: late Neolithic, Middle and Late Chalcolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age, Parthian and eventually the Seljuk era. According to surveys conducted in the Central Zagros and in the Central Iranian Plateau, Tapeh Qal‘eh-ye-Sarsakhti appears to be one of the southeastern-most extensions of the Kura-Araxes and the eastern sphere of Dalma Culture influence in the Central Iranian Plateau and East Central Zagros. Here, we trace the nature of the arrival of these cultures to the East Central Zagros and Central Iranian Plateau, as well as the role this area played in transferring of these cultures from east to west, north to south and vice versa.

Woodland dynamics and use during the Bronze Age: New evidence from Irish archaeological charcoal

The Holocene ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1078-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Charcoal Analysis ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Pollen Diagrams ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Woodland Dynamics

Swathes of roads and pipelines cut through the Irish landscape during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ years (approximately 1994–2008) leading to an unprecedented number of archaeological excavations and creating a unique opportunity for extensive research of past landscapes on a broad scale. The vast quantities of bulk soil samples suddenly available necessitated the development and adaptation of new methodologies. Despite the huge volumes of these samples, of which charcoal is the most ubiquitous ecofact, to date charcoal analysis has been considerably under-utilised in the study of past Irish woodlands. This research presents one of the largest Bronze Age archaeological charcoal datasets in Europe. It provides new palaeoecological evidence contributing to the understanding of woodland cover transformation on the island of Ireland during the late-Holocene period. The most common taxa identified in the charcoal assemblage compare well with regional pollen diagrams, particularly the use of Quercus and Corylus. With intensifying human activity during the middle Bronze Age, the proportion of Maloideae, a light demanding family rose. This is the first clear evidence of anthropogenic influence during the middle Bronze Age in Ireland derived from archaeological charcoal. The size of the charcoal dataset makes it possible to evaluate woodland cover and resourcing from two perspectives – both archaeological and palaeoecological.

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