RESEARCH NOTES AND APPLICATION REPORTS DATING THE AEGEAN LATE BRONZE AGE WITH RADIOCARBON*
Abstract
The beginning of the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean has usually been thought to coincide with the start of the Eighteenth Dynasty in Egypt, and radiocarbon dates (which consistently suggest an earlier chronology) have been rejected by Aegean specialists because they do not agree with this view. Evidence from pottery is used to re‐examine the links between the Aegean and Egypt, with the conclusion that the Aegean Late Bronze Age began during the Hyksos period.
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14C suggested an earlier date range for the Thera eruption by ~50-100+ years.
“However, then radiocarbon ( 14 C) suggested an earlier date range by �50-100+ years [7,9,31]”
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“Their calibration into calendar years, based on 14 C measurements of dendrochronological datasets then available, indicated an eruption most likely in the Second Intermediate Period before the 18 th Dynasty [44–47].”
- Authors
- BETANCOURT, P. P.
- Affiliations
- Temple University (US)
- Corresponding author
- BETANCOURT, P. P.
- Venue
- Archaeometry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1987-02
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-49
- ISSN
- 0003-813X (ISSN-L)
- 1475-4754
- OpenAlex
- W2167417114
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 68.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Archaeometry (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Keywords
- Late Bronze Age, Aegean Sea, radiocarbon chronology, Eighteenth Dynasty, Hyksos period, ceramic chronology
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