event · evt_mersa_matruh_late_bronze_occupation
Late Bronze Age occupation and metalworking at Bates’s Island, Marsa Matruh
A small settlement with houses and a metalworking workshop used ceramics from Cyprus, the Aegean, Egypt, western Asia, and local Marmarica.
What is the evidence?
observation
A small settlement with houses and a metalworking workshop used ceramics from Cyprus, the Aegean, Egypt, western Asia, and local Marmarica.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–1200 BCE
Precision: range
moderateThis assertion records the event’s preferred range without suppressing narrower samples, phase uncertainty, or competing chronology noted elsewhere in the record.
- informs · dates
Marsa Matruh I: The Excavation — White, Donald, Gardner, Rita, Hulin, Linda (2002)Provides the settlement and assemblage evidence.
Locator: Late Bronze Age occupation, workshop, and ceramic chapters
Interpretation and caveats
Bates’s Island functioned as a connected coastal node whose users participated in multiple networks. The assemblage does not identify a single controlling polity or a single direct route.
Event context
Classification
Event type: coastal settlement and craft activity
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Bates’s Island, Marsa Matruh
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Marmarica and Cyrenaica, central Mediterranean connections. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Provides the settlement and assemblage evidence. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: Late Bronze Age occupation, workshop, and ceramic chapters.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Marsa Matruh I: The Excavation — White, Donald, Gardner, Rita, Hulin, Linda (2002)Provides the settlement and assemblage evidence.
Locator: Late Bronze Age occupation, workshop, and ceramic chapters
Referenced records
- Bates’s Island, Marsa Matruh · entity