The beginning of the Iron Age at Arslantepe: A 14C perspective

Manuelli F., Vignola C., Marzaioli F., Passariello I., Terrasi F.

Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499  ceramics  Archaeology  900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499)  Anatolia  Iron Age  General Earth and Planetary Sciences  radiocarbon AMS dating  Archäologie  Bayesian analysis 

The Iron Age chronology at Arslantepe is the result of the interpretation of Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions and archaeological data coming from the site and its surrounding region. A new round of investigations of the Iron Age levels has been conducted at the site over the last 10 years. Preliminary results allowed the combination of the archaeological sequence with the historical events that extended from the collapse of the Late Bronze Age empires to the formation and development of the new Iron Age kingdoms. The integration into this picture of a new set of radiocarbon (14C) dates is aimed at establishing a more solid local chronology. High precision 14C dating by AMS and their correlation with archaeobotanical analysis and stratigraphic data are presented here with the purpose of improving our knowledge of the site´s history and to build a reliable absolute chronology of the Iron Age. The results show that the earliest level of the sequence dates to ca. the mid-13th century BC, implying that the site started developing a new set of relationships with the Levant already before the breakdown of the Hittite empire, entailing important historical implications for the Syro-Anatolian region at the end of the 2nd millennium BC

Source: Radiocarbon 63 (2021). doi:10.1017/RDC.2021.19

Publisher: American journal of science,, New Haven,, Stati Uniti d'America

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