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Israel Finkelstein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Climate, Settlement History, and Olive Cultivation in the Iron Age Southern Levant
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018Co-Authors: Israel Finkelstein, Dafina LanggutAbstract:In this article, we suggest a palaeo-climate reconstruction of the Iron Age based on pollen diagrams for sediment cores extracted from the center of the Sea of Galilee and from the Zeʾelim ravine on the western shore of the Dead Sea. We describe three pollen zones that roughly correspond to the Iron Age I, Iron Age IIA, and Iron Age IIB–C. Pollen Zone 1 (ca. 1100–950 b.c.e.) is characterized by high arboreal and olive pollen percentAges in both records, representing relatively wet climate conditions and intense olive cultivation in the regions west of the lakes. Pollen Zones 2 (ca. 950–750 b.c.e.) and 3 (ca. 750–550 b.c.e.) are typified by a profound reduction in olive cultivation. Based on Mediterranean tree pollen percentAges in the Sea of Galilee record and sediment characteristics in the Zeʾelim profile, climate conditions still seem to have been humid, albeit slightly less than in Pollen Zone 1. The low arboreal pollen in Pollen Zones 2 and 3 in the Zeʾelim diagram is probably the result of intense h...
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Hazor and the North in the Iron Age: A Low Chronology Perspective
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1999Co-Authors: Israel FinkelsteinAbstract:The article deals with the dating of the Iron Age II strata at Hazor and with historical developments on the border between the two most powerful Iron Age II states in the Levant-the northern kingd...
D.w. Harding - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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REDEFINING THE NORTHERN BRITISH Iron Age
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2006Co-Authors: D.w. HardingAbstract:Summary. Unlike Southern Britain, the Iron Age in Northern Britain spans two millennia from the introduction of Iron technology to the Norse settlements. Northern Britain is divided into a series of geographical and archaeological regions, including for the pre-Roman Earlier Iron Age the whole of aceramic and non-coin-using northern England. Despite a wealth of settlement evidence, the Earlier Iron Age lacks diagnostic material assemblAges, even in the ceramic Atlantic regions, where radiocarbon dating is now confirming the origins of Atlantic Roundhouses in the mid-first millennium BC. External connections may have been long-distance, reflecting a complex variety of selective connections. For the Later Iron Age, interpretation based upon historical sources has inhibited a proper archaeological evaluation of the ‘Picts’ and of the traditional view of Dalriadic settlement in Argyll, both of which are now under review.
Imogen Wellington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Iron Age CoinAge on the Isle of Wight
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2001Co-Authors: Imogen WellingtonAbstract:This paper presents a discussion and catalogue of the Iron Age coins found on the Isle of Wight which have been recorded, or are extant, on the island. These coins show a wide variety of links with the mainland and Continental Europe. Many of the coins are of unusual or unique types, suggesting a political division between the Isle of Wight and recognized major tribal groups for at least some of the Late Iron Age. Links are indicated with the intermediary Hampshire group introduced by Sellwood (1984). Strong links are shown with the Durotriges group to the west, and to a lesser degree with the Atrebates/Regni group to the east of the island. There are also preliminary indications of political and social centralization on the island for the first time, from numismatic finds.
Ian Leins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Pershore Hoards and Votive Deposition in the Iron Age
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2013Co-Authors: Derek Hurst, Ian LeinsAbstract:A large hoard of Iron Age coins was discovered by metal-detecting at Pershore, Worcestershire, in 1993. During small-scale archaeological excavation further Iron Age coins were recovered, including a likely second hoard. Further fieldwork in the same vicinity as the hoard(s) produced more Iron Age finds, including more coins, and a possible fragment of a twisted wire gold torc. In total 1494 Iron Age gold and silver coins were recovered. Geophysical survey indicated that the hoard(s) lay at the southern end of an extensive area of settlement which, based on the fieldwalking evidence, was mainly of Iron Age and Roman date. This covered an overall area of c. 10 ha, within which several areas of more intensive activity were defined, including enclosures and possible round-houses. It is suggested that the coin hoard(s) indicate the location of a Late Iron Age religious space in an elevated landscape position situated on the edge of a settlement which continued into the Roman period. As part of the archaeological strategy, specialist deep-search metal-detecting was undertaken in order to establish that the site has now been completely cleared of metalwork caches
Caroline Pudney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Coins and Cosmologies in Iron Age Western Britain
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2018Co-Authors: Caroline PudneyAbstract:This paper offers a material culture-based approach to British Western Iron Age coins (i.e. those often attributed to the Dobunni). Through analysis of the materiality and imAgery of these objects, the author explores the embodiment of later Iron Age cosmologies. In doing so, the cycles of day and night and of life and death are discussed. The ways in which these cosmologies could have been transposed onto the landscape through coin production and depositional contexts helps to demonstrate how Iron Age societies in Western Britain may have understood their world and confirmed their space within it.
