event · evt_kach_kouch_tin_bronze_context
Tin-bronze fragment in a Kach Kouch KK2 context
An irregular fragment containing 9.4 percent tin was recovered from a KK2 context radiocarbon dated to 1110–920 BCE at 95.4 percent confidence.
What is the evidence?
observation
An irregular fragment containing 9.4 percent tin was recovered from a KK2 context radiocarbon dated to 1110–920 BCE at 95.4 percent confidence.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.
1110 BCE–920 BCE
Precision: range
highThis assertion records the event’s preferred range without suppressing narrower samples, phase uncertainty, or competing chronology noted elsewhere in the record.
- informs · dates
Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa: architecture, farming and materiality at Kach Kouch, Morocco — Benattia, Hamza, Bokbot, Youssef, Onrubia-Pintado, Jorge, Benerradi, Meryem, Bougariane, Bouchra, Bouhamidi, Bouchra, Carballo-Pérez, Jared, Echcherif-Baamrani, Othman, Elqably, Asmae, Ghayati, Noufel, Hachami, Hassan, Kbiri-Alaoui, Mohamed, Lazarescu, Raluca, Lombardi, Lorena, Lucarini, Giulio, Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M., Mateu-Sagés, Marta, Menéndez-Molist, Pau, Montero-Ruiz, Ignacio, Ouakrim, Zayd, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, Radi, Moad, Ramon-Torres, Joan, Sobrevia-Corral, Eric, Touri, Tachfine, Broodbank, Cyprian (2025)Provides alloy composition, context date, and explicit production uncertainty.
Locator: Figure 10E and metallic-object discussion, pp. 368–370
Interpretation and caveats
The object is the earliest radiocarbon-dated tin-bronze example currently reported from North Africa west of Egypt, but its manufacture may have been local or external and no secure local metallurgical installation is known.
Event context
Classification
Event type: metal object deposition and analysis
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Kach Kouch
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Morocco and Atlantic façade, western Mediterranean and Iberian connections. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Provides alloy composition, context date, and explicit production uncertainty. Role: provides material analysis. Locator: Figure 10E and metallic-object discussion, pp. 368–370.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides material analysis
Rethinking late prehistoric Mediterranean Africa: architecture, farming and materiality at Kach Kouch, Morocco — Benattia, Hamza, Bokbot, Youssef, Onrubia-Pintado, Jorge, Benerradi, Meryem, Bougariane, Bouchra, Bouhamidi, Bouchra, Carballo-Pérez, Jared, Echcherif-Baamrani, Othman, Elqably, Asmae, Ghayati, Noufel, Hachami, Hassan, Kbiri-Alaoui, Mohamed, Lazarescu, Raluca, Lombardi, Lorena, Lucarini, Giulio, Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M., Mateu-Sagés, Marta, Menéndez-Molist, Pau, Montero-Ruiz, Ignacio, Ouakrim, Zayd, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, Radi, Moad, Ramon-Torres, Joan, Sobrevia-Corral, Eric, Touri, Tachfine, Broodbank, Cyprian (2025)Provides alloy composition, context date, and explicit production uncertainty.
Locator: Figure 10E and metallic-object discussion, pp. 368–370
Referenced records
- Kach Kouch · entity