Radiocarbon chronology of the Bronze Age cultural traditions in the Trans-Urals: based on the materials of the Levoberezhnoe (Sintashta II) settlement

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology ◽  
The Bronze Age

6. The long interlude: (12th century to 7th century bc )

2016 ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
Trevor Bryce
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The Bronze Age

In the early twelfth century bc, the Greek and Near Eastern worlds were shaken by a series of catastrophic upheavals that brought the Bronze Age to an end. ‘The long interlude’ outlines the period of Babylonian history spanning the centuries from the fall of the Kassite dynasty in the mid-twelfth century to the rise of the Neo-Babylonian kingdom in the late seventh. In the course of these centuries, a number of dynasties rose and fell in Babylonia, most of them weak and short-lived, reflecting the frequent ebb and occasional flow of Babylonia’s political and military fortunes. Environmental factors, new tribal groups, and the preservation of Babylonian cultural traditions are discussed.

scholarly journals Complex Pathways Towards Emergent Pastoral Settlements: New Research on the Bronze Age Xindian Culture of Northwest China

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitzchak Jaffe ◽  
Anke Hein ◽  
Andrew Womack ◽  
Katherine Brunson ◽  
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Subsistence Strategies ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Third ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Bronze Age

AbstractThe Xindian culture of northwest China has been seen as a prototypical example of a transition toward pastoralism, resulting in part from environmental changes that started around 4000 years ago. To date, there has been little available residential data to document how and whether subsistence strategies and community organization in northwest China changed following or in association with documented environmental changes. The Tao River Archaeology Project is a collaborative effort aimed at gathering robust archaeological information to solidify our baseline understanding of economic, technological, and social practices in the third through early first millennia BC. Here we present data from two Xindian culture residential sites, and propose that rather than a total transition to nomadic pastoralism—as it is often reconstructed—the Xindian culture reflects a prolonged period of complex transition in cultural traditions and subsistence practices. In fact, communities maintained elements of earlier cultivation and animal-foddering systems, selectively incorporating new plants and animals into their repertoire. These locally-specific strategies were employed to negotiate ever-changing environmental and social conditions in the region of developing ‘proto-Silk Road’ interregional interactions.

scholarly journals CERAMIC COMPLEX OF THE MALAYA SOPKA SANCTUARY OF THE BRONZE AGE ON THE LOWER DON

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-166
Author(s):  
A.I. Yudin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Double Ring ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Cultural Genesis ◽  
The Bronze Age

The paper contains an analysis of the ceramic collection of the bronze age sanctuary Malaya Sopka. The sanctuary is located in the Oktyabrsky district of the Rostov region and was investigated in 2017. A little more than 10,000 square meters of the cultural layer of the сentral part of the monument were studied, which is about two-thirds of the total area. On the entire territory of the excavation, there were no dwellings, buildings, household pits, and hearths. However, 10 religious complexes were studied on the site, in the form of a system of ditches of various configurations (ring, rectangular, double ring), 12 objects (stone slabs and layouts, ruins of vessels), which gave reason to call Malaya Sopka a place of worship or a sanctuary. The weakly saturated cultural layer contained tools and products made of stone, bone and bronze. The main part of the finds is represented by ruins and fragments of bronze age ceramics and fragments of cattle bones. The ceramic complex of the site was formed at the turn of the middle and late Bronze age at the base of two different cultural traditions: the local Babino (multi-ribbed) and the newcomer Don-Volga Abashevo culture. The syncretic ceramic complex marks the stage of formation of the early Srubnaya (Timber-grave) culture and supplements the data on the cultural genesis of the middle-late Bronze age with the materials of the cult site.

scholarly journals Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 150645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Graça da Silva ◽  
Jamshid J. Tehrani
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Geographical Distances ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Bronze Age

Ancient population expansions and dispersals often leave enduring signatures in the cultural traditions of their descendants, as well as in their genes and languages. The international folktale record has long been regarded as a rich context in which to explore these legacies. To date, investigations in this area have been complicated by a lack of historical data and the impact of more recent waves of diffusion. In this study, we introduce new methods for tackling these problems by applying comparative phylogenetic methods and autologistic modelling to analyse the relationships between folktales, population histories and geographical distances in Indo-European-speaking societies. We find strong correlations between the distributions of a number of folktales and phylogenetic, but not spatial, associations among populations that are consistent with vertical processes of cultural inheritance. Moreover, we show that these oral traditions probably originated long before the emergence of the literary record, and find evidence that one tale (‘The Smith and the Devil’) can be traced back to the Bronze Age. On a broader level, the kinds of stories told in ancestral societies can provide important insights into their culture, furnishing new perspectives on linguistic, genetic and archaeological reconstructions of human prehistory.

Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age

Antiquity ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (255) ◽  
pp. 218-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stašo Forenbaher
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Central European ◽  
Age Sequence ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology ◽  
The Bronze Age

It is more than forty years now since the first radiocarbon dates began the reconciliation of conventional and absolute chronologies for later prehistory. This pioneering radiocarbon chronology for the Bronze Age sequence in Central Europe brings that process nearer to a close, by filling the last major gap in the radiocarcbon chronology of the European continent.

scholarly journals The results of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo and the late Volosovo population contacts in pottery traditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-136
Author(s):  
Elena Vitalievna Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Group Iii ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Group I ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Different Levels

Due to the Historical-and-Cultural approach to ancient ceramics studies the development of mixed pottery traditions reflects the amalgamation of the very bearers of these traditions. Taken as a problem, the study of populations contacts with different levels of pottery production is specific for a wide variety of territories and chronological periods. In the Upper and Middle Volga region the problem manifests itself in appearance of the mixed pottery traditions (morphological as well as technological ones) as a result of contacts between the Fatyanovo-Balanovo population and the late Volosovo population. So-called Fatyanoid (or Fatyanovo-like) pottery that demonstrates features of the Volosovo and the Fatyanovo-Balanovo cultural traditions emerges in the process of amalgamation. A.A. Spitsyn, M.E. Foss, N.N. Gurina, I.V. Gavrilova, O.S. Gadzyatskaya and other researchers paid their attention to the problem. Based on the study of pottery collected at a number of archeological monuments including pottery from unfortified settlements - Nikolo-Perevoz I and II, Sakhtysh I, II, IV, Dikarikha, Iberdus I, Lipovka I and Galankina Gora - the author distinguishes three groups of the Fatyanoid (Fatyanovo-like) pottery: group I includes pottery with mixed Fatyanovo and Oshpandino traditions, group II includes pottery with mixed Fatyanovo and late Volosovo traditions, and group III includes pottery with the Fatyanovo traditions mixed with traditions of the population that consisted of bearers of the Bronze Age culture which is hard to define. These groups are present nearly at all archeological monuments though Fatyanovo-like pottery predominates at every monument. The author distinguishes pottery traditions common to the second group and explains the reason of their differences found at different monuments.

scholarly journals Modern Data on the Bronze Age Radiocarbon Chronology in the Minusinsk Basins

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 934-949
Author(s):  
Andrei V. Poliakov ◽  
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Svetlana Svyatko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scythian Period ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Ams Dates ◽  
Age Estimates

In 2009, the first radiocarbon chronology of the Bronze Age and Scythian period of the Minusinsk Basins was published, which laid foundation for a system analysis of further results. Over the past decade, the total number of radiocarbon definitions has further increased by almost a quarter. The most important changes have affected the chronological frames of Afanasyeva Culture. A vast series of new AMS dates obtained from the Altai Mountains sites showed that a significant number of the earlier age estimates erroneously suggested the sites to be considerably older. This phenomenon probably affected the Minusinsk Basins as well. The new dates shifted the boundaries of the Afanasyeva Culture in the Middle Yenisei Region to the 30th–25th c. BC, and the timing of the earliest Okunev Culture burials to the end of the 26th c. BC rather than the beginning of the 25th c. BC. This suggests a 100-year period of coexistence of the Afanasyeva and Okunev Cultures. Moreover, the new dates filled the “hiatus” between the end of the Okunev and beginning of the Andronovo Culture, discussed in 2009. The end of the Okunev can now be attributed to the 17th c. BC. The new dates fully confirm the narrow chronology of the Andronovo (Fedorov) Culture on the Middle Yenisei — 17th–15th c. BC. Minor changes are seen at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age in the Minusinsk Basins, previously called the Karasuk Culture. The new determinations suggest the end of the 15th c. BC as the beginning of this period, which is somewhat older than previously thought. The end of the Bronze Age is still dated to the end of the 9th c. BC.

scholarly journals Ca’ Foscari and Pakistan. Thirty Years of Achaeological Surveys and Excavations in Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Biagi
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The North ◽  
Indus Civilisation ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology ◽  
North Western ◽  
The Bronze Age

This paper regards the research carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Sindh and Las Bela province of Balochistan (Pakistan). Until the mid ’80s the prehistory of the two regions was known mainly from the impressive urban remains of the Bronze Age Indus Civilisation and the Palaeolithic assemblages discovered at the top of the limestone terraces that estend south of Rohri in Upper Sindh. Very little was known of other periods, their radiocarbon chronology, and the Arabian Sea coastal zone. Our knowledge radically changed thanks to the discoveries made during the last three decades by the Italian Archaeological Mission. Thanks to the results achieved in these years, the key role played by the north-western regions of the Indian Subcontinent in prehistory greatly improved.

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