Archaeological evidence of early settlement in Venice: a comment on Ammerman et al. (2017)
| Autor: | Luigi Fozzati, John Meadows, Nicoletta Martinelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology 060102 archaeology General Arts and Humanities Excavation 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Coring Archaeological evidence law.invention Geography law Dendrochronology 0601 history and archaeology Radiocarbon dating Settlement (litigation) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Chronology |
| Zdroj: | Antiquity. 92:1640-1649 |
| ISSN: | 1745-1744 0003-598X |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2018.159 |
| Popis: | In a recent Antiquity article, Ammerman et al. (2017) suggest that three radiocarbon dates on seventh- or eighth-century AD samples obtained by coring beneath St Mark's Basilica—including two peach stones—illuminate the earliest settlement of the historic centre of Venice. Excavations at several other locations, however, have yielded in situ settlement remains at least as old as the peach stones, some of which are securely dated by a floating tree-ring chronology and radiocarbon dates from stratified structural samples. Here, the authors summarise this evidence, and propose that a large area of the historic centre may have been settled by, or during, the mid seventh century AD. |
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