A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology / L'âge obscur se fait-il jour de nouveau? Les paradigmes changeants de la chronologie de l'âge du Fer en Méditerranée: Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon

This book includes papers from the 'A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology' session (C53) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006.

Papers from the 'A New Dawn for the Dark Age? Shifting Paradigms in Mediterranean Iron Age Chronology' session (C53) held at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. Contents: 1) Western challenges to East Mediterranean chronological frameworks (Francisco J. Nunez Calvo); 2) Dark Age pottery from southern Aeolis (Kaan Iren); 3) The beginning of the Iron Age in Thrace: archaeological evidence and questions of chronology (Elena Bozhinova); 4) Steps towards a revised chronology of Greek Geometric pottery by Martin Trachsel; 5) Italian metalwork of the 11th-9th centuries BC and the absolute chronology of the Dark Age Mediterranean (Christopher Pare); 6) The Iron Age in the Mediterranean: recent radiocarbon research at the University of Groningen (Albert J. Nijboer and Hans van der Plicht); 7) Relative and absolute chronology of Latium vetus from the Bronze Age to the transition to the Orientalizing period (Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri and Anna De Santis); 8) The chronology of the Late Bronze Age in western Iberia and the beginning of the Phoenician colonization in the western Mediterranean (Mariano Torres Ortiz); 9) Greek and Phoenician potsherds between East and West: a chronological dilemma? (Dirk Brandherm).

Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables EDITORS’ PREFACE WESTERN CHALLENGES TO EAST MEDITERRANEAN CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS DARK AGE POTTERY FROM SOUTHERN AEOLIS THE BEGINNING OF THE IRON AGE IN THRACE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND QUESTIONS OF CHRONOLOGY STEPS TOWARDS A REVISED CHRONOLOGY OF GREEK GEOMETRIC POTTERY ITALIAN METALWORK OF THE 11TH–9TH CENTURIES BC AND THE ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY OF THE DARK AGE MEDITERRANEAN THE IRON AGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: RECENT RADIOCARBON RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY OF LATIUM VETUS FROM THE LATE BRONZE AGE TO THE TRANSITION TO THE ORIENTALIZING PERIOD THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE IN WESTERN IBERIA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PHOENICIAN COLONIZATION IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN GREEK AND PHOENICIAN POTSHERDS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: A CHRONOLOGICAL DILEMMA? EDITORS’ POSTSCRIPT AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH