entity · arch_marmaric_coastal_communities
Late Bronze Age Marmaric coastal communities
Also known as: Marmaric ware-using communities
A cautious archaeological working label for local communities visible through Marmaric ceramics, pastoral settlement traces, and interactions with Egyptian and maritime sites.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1500 BCE–1100 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · supports distribution
Marmaric wares: New Kingdom and later examples — Hulin, Linda (2001)Defines local fabrics and their New Kingdom distribution.
Locator: pp. 67–78 - informs · contextualizes
New Light on the Silent Millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000–900 BC — Lucarini, Giulio, Bokbot, Youssef, Broodbank, Cyprian (2021)Places the evidence within the wider sparse pastoral record.
Locator: Cyrenaica and Marmarica discussion
Research description
This descriptive identifier is used where the archaeology does not securely permit assignment to Libu, Meshwesh, Tjemehu, or another textual ethnonym. The communities may have included mobile, semi-mobile, and settled groups whose material visibility differs by context.
Evidence and sources
- informs · supports distribution
Marmaric wares: New Kingdom and later examples — Hulin, Linda (2001)Defines local fabrics and their New Kingdom distribution.
Locator: pp. 67–78 - informs · contextualizes
New Light on the Silent Millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000–900 BC — Lucarini, Giulio, Bokbot, Youssef, Broodbank, Cyprian (2021)Places the evidence within the wider sparse pastoral record.
Locator: Cyrenaica and Marmarica discussion