Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 9 : The Early Mediterranean World, 1200–600 BC

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Ranging in time from the end of the Bronze Age to the dawn of the so-called historical period (12th-6th centuries BC), this compendium presents the first complete survey of the early history of all the cultures along the coasts of the Mediterranean. In addition to the Phoenicians, Greeks and Etruscans, these also include many other peoples, such as the Iberians, Ligurians, Thracians, Phrygians, Luwians, Aramaeans and Libyans. The volume brings together the knowledge gained from material, textual and pictorial sources in all disciplines working in this field, including Near Eastern, Phoenician, Carthaginian and biblical archaeology, Aegean and North African studies, Villanovan studies and Etruscology, Iberology, early Greek historiography and Dark Ages studies. As a whole, this period was characterized by the intermingling of cultures around the Mediterranean Rim, and the main focus of content is therefore on contacts, the transfer of culture and knowledge and key common themes, such as mobility, religion, resources, languages and writing. With indices and numerous tables and maps of Pauly quality.

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1.2. Chronological contexts

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Source: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 9 : The Early Mediterranean World, 1200–600 BC
Date: 2018-08-16

Chronological systems of the Mediterranean world in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages (core period: 1200–600)

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Preliminary notes [German source] These chronological overviews complement the section on Chronology and periodization (1.2.1.). They also accompany articles in the regional section of the volume (2.1.–2.8.), upon which they were, where possible, based.In general, they represent a selection of relative chronological systems (including those in foreign-language nomenclatures), sometimes with the addition of alternatives suggested by scholars, and ‘absolute’ chronological systems, i.e. those based on scientific data or stratig…
Source: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 9 : The Early Mediterranean World, 1200–600 BC
Date: 2018-08-20

1.2.1. Chronology and periodization

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Author(s): Schweizer, Beat
A. History and the reckoning of time [German source] The foundation for historical work on the period of early history under scrutiny here, as for any other, is laid by establishing the chronology of objects, monuments, events, contexts and structures – or, in more general terms, the material under study. To do this, modern scholarship conventionally uses the globally dominant calendrical system according to years bc and ad (or bce and ce). For Antiquity in particular, dates according to various regional and cultural calendrical systems – reckoning by eras or Ol…
Source: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 9 : The Early Mediterranean World, 1200–600 BC
Date: 2018-08-16

2.6.14. Cimmerians

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Author(s): Wittke, Anne-Maria
[German source] The Cimmerians (Neo-Assyrian  gi-mir/gi-mir-a-a or similar; OT  gmr; Greek  Kimmérioi) probably came from the central Caucasus. They were active in Asia Minor in the late 8th century [826–36], appearing first in the northeast of the territory of Urarṭu. With respect to the MIA record, they are a unique example of a mobile people that left little to nothing in the way of archaeological remains (small-scale art in the ‘Scythian animal style’, perhaps also arrowheads and horse harnesses [8]; [9]; [12146. 165 f.]) yet remain as a tangible presence for a time. …
Source: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 9 : The Early Mediterranean World, 1200–600 BC
Date: 2018-08-16