Interaction and the end of the Late Bronze Age as displayed through neutron activation analysis of Late Helladic sherds: a case study on Asine in the Argolid, Greece

This article discusses the results of neutron activation analysis made on a limited number of LH IIIB and LH IIIC period sherds from the Argive settlement Asine, Greece. The analysis indicates that the transformation from the palatial to the post-palatial period, on a local level of a village as Asi...

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Published in:Archaeological and anthropological sciences 2021-07, Vol.13 (7), Article 127
Main Authors: Sjöberg, B. L., Mommsen, H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Arkeologi
Asine
Bronze Age
ceramic production
Ceramics
Chemistry/Food Science
collapse
context
Continuity
Dominance
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Ethnology
Etnologi
Geography
Geologi
Geology
Greece
Historic artifacts
Interaction
Late Bronze Age
Life Sciences
mycenaean pottery
NAA neutron activation analysis
Neutrons
Operators
Original Paper
Pottery
Transformation
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Summary:This article discusses the results of neutron activation analysis made on a limited number of LH IIIB and LH IIIC period sherds from the Argive settlement Asine, Greece. The analysis indicates that the transformation from the palatial to the post-palatial period, on a local level of a village as Asine, was not signified by loss of contacts with the surrounding world. Rather continuity and interaction prevailed, although with other geographical areas as production and use of pottery in the LH IIIB period apparently had a more regional preponderance. The geographical dominance of pottery assigned to producers in north-eastern Peloponnese and distributed over the Mediterranean was terminated, but other operators may have responded to the demand for pottery.
ISSN:1866-9557
1866-9565
DOI:10.1007/s12520-021-01356-7