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Bayesian radiocarbon modeling and the absolute chronology of the Middle Bronze Age Thapsos facies in mainland Sicily: a view from St. Ippolito (Caltagirone)

Authors: Tanasi, Davide; Alberti, Gianmarco; Caso, Giampiero; Tykot, Robert H.; Trapani, Paolo; Amoroso, Domenico;

Bayesian radiocarbon modeling and the absolute chronology of the Middle Bronze Age Thapsos facies in mainland Sicily: a view from St. Ippolito (Caltagirone)

Abstract

Une des périodes les plus explorées et les plus débattues de la Préhistoire de Sicile est l’âge du Bronze moyen (XVe-XIIIe s. AEC), considérée comme un moment crucial du développement social et économique, en même temps qu’une période de dynamisme trans-culturel de la protohistoire locale. La culture de Thapsos est ainsi la meilleure illustration de cette période, caractérisée par la présence conjointe, sur certains sites, de céramiques datantes, importées de l’Égée, et de leurs répliques locales. Les chercheurs ont pu établir ainsi une chronologie relative basée sur ces éléments phares des contextes de la Méditerranée orientale. Par ailleurs, la réalisation d’une série de datations absolues indépendantes établies pour le Bronze moyen sicilien a permis d’affiner cette chronologie. Dans cette contribution, les auteurs proposent un modèle bayésien reposant sur le contexte stratifié Bronze moyen de St. Ippolito (Caltagirone, centre-est de la Sicile) pour lequel une série d’échantillons a été datée par le radiocarbone. Cette étude a pour but de préciser à quelle phase du Bronze moyen correspond la séquence analysée sur le site en question, de dater les différentes activités présentes au sein des niveaux de dépôts et de proposer un phasage chronologique pour le matériel céramique associé.

One of the most debated and explored period of the prehistory of Sicily is the Middle Bronze Age (15th-13th century BCE), which is considered as a crucial moment for the development of local prehistoric social, economic, and cross-cultural dynamics. The local Thapsos culture is what best represents this chronological period and is characterized at some sites by the occurrence of datable ceramic imports from the Aegean alongside their local replicas. These have helped researchers with establishing a local relative chronology based indirect beacons with eastern Mediterranean contexts. However, when it comes to an independent absolute chronology for MBA context in mainland Sicily, no recent program of radiocarbon dating has been carried out so far. In this contribution, the authors devise a Bayesian model based on evidence from a stratified MBA context at St. Ippolito (Caltagirone, central-eastern Sicily) where a set of seven samples have been radiocarbon dated. The study aims to assess which part of the overall development of the MBA the analyzed context corresponds to, to absolute date the activities represented by the deposit’s layers, and to lay the basis to tentatively bracket in time the use of some associated ceramic materials.

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Radiocarbon dating, Archaeology -- Italy -- Sicily, FOS: History and archaeology, Bayesian statistical decision theory, Bronze age -- Italy -- Thapsos, Archaeological dating -- Italy -- Thapsos

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