New 14C evidence for the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age transition in Southeast Europe

Maniatis, Yannis; Tsirtsoni, Zoï; Oberlin, Christine; Darcque, Pascal; Koukouli-Chryssanthaki, Chaido; Malamidou, Dimitra; Siros, Tasos; Miteletsis, Miltos; Papadopoulos, Stratis; Kromer, Bernd

doi:10.4081/arc.2014.5262

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“…Information for the following centuries of the Transitional Period (Todorova 1995.89) is meagre (but compare Tsirtsoni 2016). Also, in the Northern Aegean (Maniatis 2014; Maniatis et al 2014) and in Thessaly the time around and after c. 4200/4000 cal BC is extremely difficult to grasp. The scarcity of dates until c. 3750 cal BC coincides partly with a huge plateau in the calibration curve that impedes a precise determination of single dates.…”

Section: The Final Neolithic/chalcolithic (4500-3300 Cal Bc)mentioning

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Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated periods and phases

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Section: The Final Neolithic/chalcolithic (4500-3300 Cal Bc)mentioning

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Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated periods and phases

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“…They were all destroyed by fire-probably not all together in a single fire-around 4300-4200 cal B.C., during the LN II period. Their date is well established from the radiocarbon dating of the destruction layer (Darcque, Koukouli-Chryssanthaki, Malamidou, Treuil, and Tsirtsoni 2011:198-199, Figure 13;Koukouli-Chryssanthaki et al 1997:694, Figure 7;Maniatis et al 2014) and a series of thermoluminescence measurements, with results matching the 14 C dates of the same contexts (Roque et al 2002). The Neolithic buildings were found under an Early Bronze Age occupation level dated by radiocarbon to around 3200 cal B.C.…”

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An Investigation of Neolithic Settlement Pattern and Plant Exploitation at Dikili Tash:

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Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

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Dikili Tash appears today to be one of the prehistoric settlements with the longest occupational sequences in the Aegean and the Balkans (ca. 6500-1100 B.C.). In the last fifty years, research at the site and in the surrounding Philippi Plain has offered information for understanding the role of natural and anthropogenic processes in tell formation and landscape change. In this paper, we discuss a particular time-window of this long sequence, the years around 4300-4200 cal B.C., for which we now have a large range of high-resolution data from secure contexts. Excavation of large areas in Sector 6 allowed for the exploration of the spatial arrangement and household organization of the settlement in the above period. The buildings that were fully excavated in Sector 6 had been destroyed by fire. Thus they preserved in-situ organic evidence of human activities otherwise undetectable in the archaeological record. The architectural, artifactual, and archaeobotanical (seed/fruit and wood charcoal macroremains) evidence from these buildings is examined here together in an integrated manner in order to reveal different ways of interaction between people and the natural environment in Dikili Tash toward the end of the fifth millennium B.C. Among the issues discussed here is plant exploitation for various purposes, such as food, fuel, construction, and crafts, as well as specific archaeological contexts through which such activities can be discerned.

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“…This period corresponds to the renewal of human settlement in the region. The major sites of the Late and Final Neolithic period, such as Dikili Tash and Sitagroi, are once again inhabited from 5300 to 5000 cal yr BP and the site of Kryoneri somewhat later (Maniatis et al, 2014;Tsirtsoni, in press). Agropastoral activities are also evidenced by numerous archaeological studies and the anthropogenic landscape changes correspond to lasting land use changes during the Bronze Age (Lespez, 2008).…”

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“…As previously noted, there are no sites in northern Greece and more largely in the southeastern Balkans for which the sequence shows uninterrupted occupation from the Late-Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (Tsirtsoni, 2014, in press). In eastern Macedonia, all types of settlements were abandoned in coastal (e.g., Thasos Island), lowland (e.g., Kryonery and Dikili Tash) and mountainous areas (e.g., Sidirokastro Cave), although not at the same time (Maniatis et al, 2014). This indicates that there is no geographical patterning that could suggest withdrawal to more favourable areas or spatial progression of a cultural process (Tsirtsoni, 2014, in press).…”

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“…Depending on the site and the precision of the ages, the hiatus extends from~6300-6000 to 5400-5000 cal yr BP (Maniatis and Kromer, 1990;Görsdorf and Bojadžiev, 1996;Tsirtsoni, 2014). Furthermore, very few sites have been dated within this interval (Boyadžiev, 1995;Maniatis et al, 2014;Tsirtsoni, 2014). A chronological gap of seven to eight centuries is apparent in the entire area.…”

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Middle Holocene rapid environmental changes and human adaptation in Greece

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Numerous researchers discuss of the collapse of civilizations in response to abrupt climate change in the Mediterranean region. The period between 6500 and 5000 cal yr BP is one of the least studied episodes of rapid climate change at the end of the Late Neolithic. This period is characterized by a dramatic decline in settlement and a cultural break in the Balkans. High-resolution paleoenvironmental proxy data obtained in the Lower Angitis Valley enables an examination of the societal responses to rapid climatic change in Greece. Development of a lasting fluvio-lacustrine environment followed by enhanced fluvial activity is evident from 6000 cal yr BP. Paleoecological data show a succession of dry events at 5800–5700, 5450 and 5000–4900 cal yr BP. These events correspond to incursion of cold air masses to the eastern Mediterranean, confirming the climatic instability of the middle Holocene climate transition. Two periods with farming and pastural activities (6300–5600 and 5100–4700 cal BP) are evident. The intervening period is marked by environmental changes, but the continuous occurrence of anthropogenic taxa suggests the persistence of human activities despite the absence of archaeological evidence. The environmental factors alone were not sufficient to trigger the observed societal changes.

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New 14C evidence for the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age transition in Southeast Europe

Abstract: The transition from the Late Neolithic (LN)

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Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated periods and phases

Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated periods and phases

An Investigation of Neolithic Settlement Pattern and Plant Exploitation at Dikili Tash:

Middle Holocene rapid environmental changes and human adaptation in Greece

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