REVISITING THE END OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE AND THE TRANSITION TO THE EARLY IRON AGE AT TILLE HÖYÜK

Dendrochronological dating of two phases of the monumental Gateway excavated at Tille Höyük on the Turkish Euphrates was carried out by Peter Kuniholm and his team in 1993. Very recently Carol Griggs and Sturt Manning, also of Cornell University, used AMS 14C to check cross-matching of tree-ring seq...

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Published in:Iraq 2010, Vol.72, p.193-200
Main Author: SUMMERS, Geoffrey D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ancient civilizations of the near east
Art and archaeology
Dating
Generalities
Laboratory technics
Mesopotamia and Near East
Methods
Minor Asia and Hittites
Research principies
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Summary:Dendrochronological dating of two phases of the monumental Gateway excavated at Tille Höyük on the Turkish Euphrates was carried out by Peter Kuniholm and his team in 1993. Very recently Carol Griggs and Sturt Manning, also of Cornell University, used AMS 14C to check cross-matching of tree-ring sequences. New dates suggest that the first phase of the gate was constructed toward the middle of the twelfth century BCE, probably a few decades after the fall of the LBA Hittite capital at Hattuša. Some implications of this lower dating for our understanding of the Early Iron Age are discussed, and new reconstructions of the Gateway plan are provided.
ISSN:0021-0889
2053-4744
DOI:10.1017/S0021088900000656