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Document Details : Title: Das Gründungsdatum von Karthago im aktuellen chronologischen Diskurs Subtitle: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Zeitansätzen Martin Trachsels für die Späte Früheisenzeit Author(s): DÖRRER, Olaf Journal: BABESCH Volume: 99 Date: 2024 Pages: 17-59 DOI: 10.2143/BAB.99.0.3293137 Abstract : Against the background of the current chronological discussion, the relevance of the Carthaginian foundation date (827/820 BC) is questioned. M. Trachsel as one of the protagonists of a high chronology recently used this approach to raise the beginning of 'Attic/Euboean LG', including the last stage of the Villanova culture ('Veio IIB') and the end of the northern Alpine 'Ha B3', to the advanced 9th century BC. The radiocarbon dates from the earliest layers of the Hamburg excavation at Carthage were also uncritically used in this sense. However, in the meantime considerably younger radiocarbon dates with approximately comparable early Phoenician material are found at Carthage-Bir Massouda. M. Trachsel postulated a broad decoupling of the Attic/Euboean sequence from the Corinthian sequence to support his extremely high chronology against the historical and dendrochronological approaches for 'LG' and 'EPC' wares of the second half of the 8th century BC. Our renewed investigation, based predominantly on Tyrrhenian burial inventories, was able to reject this axiom. High-quality radiocarbon dates and historical anchors support the onset of the 'Attic MG II' not before the middle of the 9th century B.C. The parallelization of the 'Veio/Pontecagnano IIA' phase with the associated 'Attic/Euboean-MG II' and 'Corinthian-MG II' wares to the northwestern dendrodated lakeside settlements also places this period in the decades around 800 B.C. Finally, a new assessment of the date of Carthage‘s foundation is proposed. |
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