Cronologia versus Archeologia. L'«ambiguo» scorrere del tempo alle soglie della «colonizzazione»: i casi di Cuma e Pithekoussai
Contributo in Atti di convegno
Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Abstract:
the cases of Cuma and Pithekoussai here discussed fall into two specific areas of research on which the writer has
been working for some time, with results perhaps controversial, but which are based on at least two objective aspects:
the need for a more careful archival research of old excavations and the extraordinary importance of the stratigraphy
of Pithekoussai’s necropolis. In the first case, the study of new archival documents, relating to the ‘preellenic’ burials,
has allowed us to highlight the serious anomalies which have destabilized the reliability of some contexts on which the
chronological reconstruction of the early Iron Age in Italy was originally founded. In the case of Pithekoussai, the
reconstruction of the stratigraphic sequence of the necropolis, merged with the typological and associative analysis of
more than 2,600 grave goods found in about 600 contexts (dating from the late Geometric I to the Middle Corinthian),
has yielded to a more accurate interpretation of the evolution of the cemetery and to a more precise contextualization
of graves and finds, unanimously considered “guide fossils” for the ancient Mediterranean chronology.
been working for some time, with results perhaps controversial, but which are based on at least two objective aspects:
the need for a more careful archival research of old excavations and the extraordinary importance of the stratigraphy
of Pithekoussai’s necropolis. In the first case, the study of new archival documents, relating to the ‘preellenic’ burials,
has allowed us to highlight the serious anomalies which have destabilized the reliability of some contexts on which the
chronological reconstruction of the early Iron Age in Italy was originally founded. In the case of Pithekoussai, the
reconstruction of the stratigraphic sequence of the necropolis, merged with the typological and associative analysis of
more than 2,600 grave goods found in about 600 contexts (dating from the late Geometric I to the Middle Corinthian),
has yielded to a more accurate interpretation of the evolution of the cemetery and to a more precise contextualization
of graves and finds, unanimously considered “guide fossils” for the ancient Mediterranean chronology.
Tipologia CRIS:
4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Elenco autori:
Nizzo, V
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Titolo del libro:
Contexts of early colonisation, Acts of the conference Contextualizing Early Colonization. Archaeology, Sources, Chronology and Interpretative Models between Italy and the Mediterranean (Rome 21-23 June 2012)