An Aegean History and Archaeology Written through Radiocarbon Dates

Katsianis, Markos; Bevan, Andrew; Styliaras, Georgios; Maniatis, Yannis

doi:10.5334/joad.65

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“…Radiocarbon assays in the insular Mediterranean in general are very patchily distributed. For example, Katsianis et al [55] amassed a database of 3159 radiocarbon dates from 353 sites in Greece, but few dates came from the Greek islands. A majority of these only exhibit dates from single sites, and no radiocarbon dates at all have been reported for Andros, Tinos, Ikaria, Karpathos, Serifos, Astipalaia, and Kalimnos.…”

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“…Dates on material in a relevant stratigraphic relationship with-for example-early and middle Holocene insular Mediterranean archaeological contexts are even more sporadically distributed, with investigation not unreasonably but nonetheless often biased towards certain key sites and stratigraphic sequences (often on larger islands), e.g., [56]. Beyond problematic distribution, too frequently radiocarbon dates from the Mediterranean are bedeviled by a series of methodological limitations including inappropriate paucity within discrete deposits, incomplete publication (e.g., 48% of published Greek dates lack δ 13 C values [55]), lack of marine reservoir effect correction, and excessive interpretive weight placed on single dates with large standard deviations.…”

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Island Colonization and Environmental Sustainability in the Postglacial Mediterranean

2021

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Island environments present challenges to human colonization, but we have a poor understanding of how environmental difference drives heterogeneous patterns of insular settlement. In this paper, we assess which environmental and geographic variables positively or negatively affect the long-term sustainability of human settlement on islands. Using the postglacial Mediterranean basin as a case study, we assess the impact of area, isolation index, species richness, and net primary productivity (NPP) on patterns of island occupation for both hunter-gatherer and agropastoral populations. We find that models involving area most effectively accounts for sustainability in hunter-gatherer island settlement. The agropastoral data are noisier, perhaps due to culturally specific factors responsible for the distribution of the data; nonetheless, we show that area and NPP exert profound influence over sustainability of agropastoral island settlement. We conclude by suggesting that this relates to the capacity of these variables to impact demographic robusticity directly.

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Island Colonization and Environmental Sustainability in the Postglacial Mediterranean

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“…But we can project such probability rectangles, if requested, onto other components of the calibration system. The flexibility of the new gauge-probability concept is illustrated first in Figure 1, by construction of the entire sequence of major calibration curve plateaus for INTCAL20, then again in Figure 2, by gauge-seriation of the recently published stratified Gravettian 14 C-data from Abri Pataud (Douka et al 2019), but without the need for stratification modelling, and finally in Figure 3, by showing the wavefunction (alias CPD) for 2543 14 C-ages from Greece and Crete (data: Katsianis et al 2020) in graphic comparison with the underlying (N=303) archaeological sites, with automated site-seriation. As for the first example (Fig.…”

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“…In measure theory, what we call 'gauging' is a standard procedure used to assign Lebesgue measures (in place of probabilities) to subsets of the study data. As a third illustration of the new Fourier-based dating concepts, Figure 3 shows the 14 C-demographic chro-nology of Greece (including Crete and the Aegean islands) for the last 12 000 years, based on the recently published database of Antonio Katsianis et al (2020). Of particular interest, we note (1), the broadly synchronous end of the eastern Mediterranean wet period of Sapropel S1 and abrupt onset of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) conditions (~6.2 ka cal BP), with the major settlement gap (6.2-5.0 ka cal BP), that is very clearly observable not only in the summed 14 C-data, but also on site level (cf.…”

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Bayesian 14C-rationality, Heisenberg Uncertainty, and Fourier Transform

Weninger¹,

Edinborough

2020

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Following some 30 years of radiocarbon research during which the mathematical principles of 14C-calibration have been on loan to Bayesian statistics, here they are returned to quantum physics. The return is based on recognition that 14C-calibration can be described as a Fourier transform. Following its introduction as such, there is need to reconceptualize the probabilistic 14C-analysis. The main change will be to replace the traditional (one-dimensional) concept of 14C-dating probability by a two-dimensional probability. This is entirely analogous to the definition of probability in quantum physics, where the squared amplitude of a wave function defined in Hilbert space provides a measurable probability of finding the corresponding particle at a certain point in time/space, the so-called Born rule. When adapted to the characteristics of 14C-calibration, as it turns out, the Fourier transform immediately accounts for practically all known so-called quantization properties of archaeological 14C-ages, such as clustering, age-shifting, and amplitude-distortion. This also applies to the frequently observed chronological lock-in properties of larger data sets, when analysed by Gaussian wiggle matching (on the 14C-scale) just as by Bayesian sequencing (on the calendar time-scale). Such domain-switching effects are typical for a Fourier transform. They can now be understood, and taken into account, by the application of concepts and interpretations that are central to quantum physics (e.g. wave diffraction, wave-particle duality, Heisenberg uncertainty, and the correspondence principle). What may sound complicated, at first glance, simplifies the construction of 14C-based chronologies. The new Fourier-based 14C-analysis supports chronological studies on previously unachievable geographic (continental) and temporal (Glacial-Holocene) scales; for example, by temporal sequencing of hundreds of archaeological sites, simultaneously, with minimal need for development of archaeological prior hypotheses, other than those based on the geo-archaeological law of stratigraphic superposition. As demonstrated in a variety of archaeological case studies, just one number, defined as a gauge-probability on a scale 0–100%, can be used to replace a stacked set of subjective Bayesian priors.

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“…The dataset integrates datasets of radiocarbon dates already published in the web [18,[21][22][23][24][25], including online datasets like Euroevol and Radon, but also data from the personal archives of the authors. All radiocarbon dates have been individually revised, and many cases of missing or erroneous information have been corrected.…”

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NeoNet Dataset. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean Basin

Huet

Morera

Gibaja

et al. 2022

Journal of Open Archaeology Data

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The NeoNet dataset aims to provide a new research tool for the study of the pioneer farming front (i.e. Neolithisation) in the North Central and North Western Mediterranean basin by focusing on the period of transition from a foraging to a farming economy (ca. 7000 to 3500 cal BC). The complete dataset is formed by the elencoc14.tsv file, a dataframe with tab-separated values, and a connex dataframe: thesaurus.tsv. The dataset contains 2,506 radiocarbon dates from 526 archaeological sites and 1,769 different archaeological records (stratigraphic units, structures, negative features, hearths, etc.). To ensure and facilitate the reuse of the radiocarbon dates, NeoNet's data structure is based on the Euroevol database layout. Among other fields, particular attention has been paid to homogenisation of the laboratory code, the archaeological context, and the references, in order to facilitate further data extractions. Indeed, the dataset is linked to an opensource R Shiny interactive web app (NeoNet app), and a getter function (R package c14bazAAr, R function get_neonet).

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An Aegean History and Archaeology Written through Radiocarbon Dates

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Island Colonization and Environmental Sustainability in the Postglacial Mediterranean

Island Colonization and Environmental Sustainability in the Postglacial Mediterranean

Bayesian 14C-rationality, Heisenberg Uncertainty, and Fourier Transform

NeoNet Dataset. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean Basin

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