Rethinking burial dates at a Graeco-Roman Cemetery: Fag el-Gamous, Fayoum, Egypt

Evans, Ruth; Whitchurch, David M.; Muhlestein, Kerry

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.02.004

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“…The dates discussed here are the first secure absolute dates from a Greco-Roman settlement in Egypt. Though there is a long-standing relationship between radiocarbon dating and Egyptian historical chronology (Shortland & Bronk Ramsey 2013), the first millennium AD is almost never represented, with only one burial site-also in the Fayum regionreported for this period (Evans et al 2015). Previous radiocarbon ( 14 C) analysis on a sample of structural wood from the north baths at Karanis provided an unreliable conventional age of 1340±230 BP (213-1165 AD;Castel 2009).…”

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Re-dating Roman Karanis, Egypt: radiocarbon evidence for prolonged occupation until the seventh century AD

Motta,

Johnson,

Burton

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Antiquity

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One century after its initial excavation, this article presents the first absolute chronology for the settlement of Karanis in Egypt. Radiocarbon dates from crops retrieved from settlement structures suggest that the site was inhabited beyond the middle of the fifth century AD, the time at which it was previously believed to have been abandoned. These dates add to the complex picture of population fluctuations and the remodelling and reuse of structures at Karanis. Two dates reach into the middle of the seventh century, placing the abandonment of the site in a period of political and environmental transition that changed the physical and social landscape of the Fayum region and beyond.

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