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Giacomo Boni, stratigraphical section of Palazzo Ducale foundations,Venice. After Guidobaldi 2008, Fig 5.
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The article is a tribute to the pioneering role of Klavs Randsborg in the early Nineties in search for a new comprehensive chronology for Italian and European prehistory based on a combination of dendrodates with C14 dates. The debate of the last 25 years on this matter is presented, demonstrating a scholarly split, in particular in Italy. At the s...
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... young age of 22 in the great restoration of Piazza San Marco in Venice. His fi rst stratigraphic section known to us is a watercolor of the foundations of Palazzo Ducale THE EMERGENCE OF STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE. THE ITALIAN CASE-STUDY (1900-1950 Alessandro Guidi & Massimo Tarantini (Guidobaldi 2008), painted in 1881-82 (Fig. 2). Three years later, he published a section of the foundation wall of the bell tower of San Marco (Fig. 3) which demonstrated how, contrary to the opinion of many scholars, the foundation levels were vertical, made with stones and pilings (Boni 1885). It is impossible not to see the diff erence between these two ...
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... section of a grave found in Gela, published in 1906 (8) (Fig. 11). It is very diffi cult to fi nd similar accuracy in the archeological documentation of the following decades, except for the Paleolithic excavations led overall by Gian Alberto and Carlo Alberto Blanc (9): a good exception is a section of a Greek pit made in 1907 by Angelo Mosso (Fig. 12) (10), a scholar who is all too often ...
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... infl uence of prehistoric cave excavation methodology on Lamboglia and Bernabò Brea is evident foremost in their appreciation of sections, which were regularly drawn on site maps. These were not cumulative sections, but rather drawings of sections made visible by excavating in adjacent trenches (Paltineri 2003) (Fig. 19- 20). Furthermore, Lamboglia and Bernabò Brea both paid attention to the formation process of stratigraphy, which they followed naturally along its contours even where irregular in inclination and thickness. And they considered sedimentology, not only to evaluate formation processes, but also to correlate strata, demonstrating generally ...
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... the infl uence of the IIHP is evident in the explicit choice of Lamboglia and Bernabò Brea to collect all of the "palaeoecological" elements in the excavation, from fauna to charcoal, with the aim of reconstructing the relationship between humans and landscape (Gan- dolfi 2004, 173). This aspect deserves a separate discus- Fig. 20. Albintimilium. General section of the "Room V". After Lamboglia 1950. sion. We stress only that in 1931 Gian Alberto Blanc had expressed a wish that prehistory would borrow from «a much broader fi eld, that of ecology» ( Blanc 1931, 16), stating that the objective of research should be knowledge of « the environment in which human ...
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... cit. in Coye 2001. As has been noted, this attention to pottery also led to a specifi c rationalization of post-excavation activities, with particular emphasis on the organization of the fi nds depot. Two photographs well demonstrate the similarity between Lamboglia's depot at Ventimiglia and Bernabò Brea's at Lipari ( Gandolfi 2004, 191-192) (Fig. ...
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... In the central and western Mediterranean, where sites have been dated using Greek ceramics, the traditional dates have been called into question following radiocarbon analyses suggesting a higher/older chronology than traditionally assigned (Randsborg 1991;Nijboer et al. 2000;Nijboer 2005;van der Plicht et al. 2009;Guidi 2018). Such observations are supported by older dates obtained from stratified contexts in the Aegean (Wardle et al. 2014;Gimatzidis & Weninger 2020). ...
In this article, the authors present an analysis of radiocarbon dates from a stratified deposit at the Greek Geometric period settlement of Zagora on the island of Andros, which are among the few absolute dates measured from the period in Greece. The dates assigned to Greek Geometric ceramics are based on historical and literary evidence and are found to contradict absolute dates from the central Mediterranean which suggest that the traditional dates are too young. The results indicate the final period at Zagora, the Late Geometric, should be seen as starting at least a century earlier than the traditional date of 760 BC.
... The ongoing excavations at Monte San Nicola are contributing to our understanding of both the site itself and the pottery typochronology of the Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in the Sibaritide. To begin with the latter, we want to reiterate here that few archaeometric date ranges are yet available in the Sibaritide to anchor the ongoing debate on the absolute chronology of Italian protohistory (Guidi 2018). We are now establishing the first firm link between relative chronology based on pottery classification and absolute dates for the FBA3 in the Sibaritide, using a detailed analysis of secure stratigraphic contexts containing typological parallels dating to the broad phase FBA-EIA at other sites in the region (Ippolito & Van Leusen 2020). ...
We report here on the first two seasons of excavations by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (the Netherlands) at two settlement sites in the foothill zone of the Sibaritide coastal plain (northern Calabria, Italy). The work is throwing new light on finds assemblages unique to the transitional period of the Final Bronze Age–Early Iron Age, a poorly understood period in southern Italy, and is helping to resolve methodological questions about the interpretation of non-invasive archaeological and geophysical survey data. The finds so far excavated, supported by radiocarbon dates, form one of the first ‘pure’ FBA–EIA transitional assemblages, and thus contribute to fill a significant typochronological hiatus with wider implications for protohistoric archaeology in the region. It is also becoming clear what long-term effects mechanized ploughing has on slope processes and soil profiles typical for the region, knowledge that will help us understand the results of the wider field surveys and geophysical investigations conducted since 2000 in the Raganello River basin.
Astonishingly little is known about the early history of the chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). To better understand their spatiotemporal spread across Eurasia and Africa, we radiocarbon dated presumed early chicken bones. The results indicate chickens were an Iron Age arrival to Europe and that there was a consistent time-lag of several centuries between their introduction to new regions and incorporation into the human diet. Well-dated evidence for Britain and mainland Europe suggests chickens were initially considered exotica and buried as individuals, were gradually incorporated into human funerary rites, and only much later came to be seen as just ‘food’.
In central and northern Italy, the first millennium BC was characterised by the rise of urbanism and an expansion of nearly every area of production. Agriculture was no exception, and an increase in the scale and intensity of agricultural production sustained, and was sustained by, economic and population growth. Within this context, animal management also evolved to meet the needs of the changing protohistoric landscape. Pigs grew in importance as meat producers, and a greater emphasis was placed on animal-derived products like wool. These changes can be linked to the subsistence requirements of urban populations and the value of raw materials; however, beyond these functional explanations, the wider socio-economic context of animal husbandry is rarely explored. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the zooarchaeological evidence for livestock production and the socio-economic transformations that drove animal management. Three aspects of protohistoric husbandry are explored through discussion of pig, cattle, sheep, and chicken exploitation: greater differentiation in livestock production between different site types, specialisation of animals through selective breeding, and the adoption of new forms of livestock. These lines of evidence demonstrate the role of animals in socio-economic networks of distribution and dependence, and they highlight the importance of agricultural produce in the articulation of social hierarchies. As in the transformation of other forms for material culture during this of this period, livestock husbandry regimes were not simply the deterministic result of wider socio-economic change, but a medium actively adapted for its expression.
