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A light in the dark: archaeological wiggle matching and the absolute chronology of the close of the Aegean Late Bronze Age

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Sturt W. Manning  and
Bernhard Weninger
Sturt W. Manning
Affiliation:
Department of Classics, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 2AA, UK.
Bernhard Weninger
Affiliation:
Institut der Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Schloss, D-7400 Tübingen, Germany
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The conventional chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze Age was challenged by P.J. James and his co-workers in Centuries of darkness (1991). The present paper is an exhaustive and critical re-examination of radiocarbon dates from a number of key sites in the region using the technique of probabilistic computer archaeological wiggle matching which concludes that the conventional arhcaeological chronology still holds good (whatever the flaws in its original construction) on the basis of the independent radiocarbon evidence.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 636 - 663
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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