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Summary.How can archaeologists combine and use C14 determinations when they have irregular recalibrated dates? This question is solved by an example with six determinations from the Bronze Age settlement of El Castillo in the mountains of eastern Spain. For the first time we can date precisely the end of the Eneolithic to 2150–2110 BC, and the start of a Bronze Age expansion stage by 1960 BC. Each has a distinctive material culture; that of the Bronze Age stage is linked closely to the climax of the Motillas in La Mancha, and more distantly to El Argar in SE Spai

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00017.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.The main objective of this paper is to describe two Iberian Iron Age gold tores from the collection of the Ashmolean Museum. Their study, mostly based on typological aspects, is used to determine the origin of the two ornaments, which is concluded to be the Iberian northwest, thus corroborating the information in the Ashmolean Museum records. An integration of the two tores within the existing typological groups of Northwestern Castros tores is attempted, as a means of determining their geographical origin accurately. Other aspects, such as the significance of this kind of ornament in the Iron Age, are also considered.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00018.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Trade languages are an indispensable mechanism of communication and acculturation in direct and long term trade relationships. In such cases, the aim of this paper is to suggest that Lusitanian, the old Indoeuropean language spoken in West Iberia, arrived in this way from the Atlantic region in the Late Bronze Age, together with technical improvements and a new ideology that deeply influenced the local population, which preserved these cultural features unchanged until the Roman conquest.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00019.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Aghios Petros in the Sporades Islands is one of the earliest and most thoroughly excavated settlements in the Aegean. It was a permanent settlement of the end of the 6th millennium BC, and a unique cultural centre, with influences from Thessaly, Anatolia and the Balkans. In the present study, the degree of contacts and influence between Aghios Petros and the neighbouring well‐known Neolithic settlements of Dimini and Sesklo is examined on the basis of trace element analysis by INAA. Cluster analysis, based on Th, Sc, Cs, Fe, Co and Eu, reveals distinct differences, Aghios Petros sherds forming a quite separate group. There also exist three sub‐groups within the Sporades material. This result is substantiated by archaeological evidence and reinforces the view that Aghios Petros is a site of particular cultural interest and of semi‐autonomous development, which flourished in the middle of the 5th millenni

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00020.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.The opinions of Blegen on the date of the destruction of the ‘Palace of Nestor’ at Epano Englianos and on the slightness of Iron Age occupation on the site are questioned. It is suggested that the palace may have been destroyed very early in Late Helladic IIIB if some vases of IIIC or early Iron Age were mistakenly ascribed to the destruction instead of to subsequent occupation of the site which, in Geometric times at least, appears to have been considerably greater than Blegen admit

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00021.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.An important red‐figured calyx‐krater, today in Boston, is examined in order to show that on grounds of fabric, style and iconography it was potted and painted not in Athens but in Corinth during the first quarter of the 4th century. Other vases in Athens, Corinth and Perachora are attributed to the same hand. Evidence in the Beazley Archive shows that Beazley was aware of some of these vases and had named the artist the Dombrena Pain

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00022.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Twenty glazed bowls of the late twelfth century A.D. from the Ashmolean Museum are published here. They probably come from a shipwreck off the island of Skopelos in the north‐west Aegean and are of intrinsic interest in expanding the already known categories of Middle Byzantine Incised Ware

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00023.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Archaeological work, based on the external characteristics of decorated floor tiles from the Cistercian monastery of Bordesley, has identified and characterised a series of industries supplying that site from the earlier 13th century through to dissolution in 1538. In this paper we extend these interpretations by means of neutron activation analysis (NAA) data on the body compositions of the tiles, and compare these results with manually recorded descriptions.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00024.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.This article discusses the problem of how to relate a special grave construction to a particular settlement site. An example from the West Swedish Bronze Age is presented to pinpoint the difficulties of the chronological criteria and the drawbacks of using ‘nearness’ as a criterion.The idea presented is that a relationship between a grave monument and a settlement site may be reflected in areas where the building material, the stones, were picked up. Such areas can be demonstrated in a test example from West Sweden, which showed that, under special circumstances, such a link may be valuable for solving the problem of how to relate a cairn to a settlement s

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00025.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Until comparatively recently the archaeological study of ancient towns had been largely conditioned by urban development or individual research interests. This is especially true of Mediterranean sites whose especial richness has generated most attention upon their monumental aspect. Such work provides us with only partial glimpses of urban landscapes which are by definition complex and dynamic. An increasing awareness of this in recent years has led to archaeologists explicitly adopting sampling based strategies when confronting ancient towns. This paper attempts to outline the sampling‐based research design employed at a multi‐period town site in southern Spain. The integrated use of topographical survey, systematic surface sherding and geophysics provided a valuable insight into the spatial patterning of surface and sub‐surface archaeological features. This allowed a hypothesis about the ancient topography of the town to be proposed and for it to be successfully tested by open‐area exc

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1991.tb00026.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY