event · evt_sj_03_83_pastoral_use
Temporary pastoral use at SJ-03-83 in the Jefara
A hearth or small activity context dates broadly from approximately 1200–550 BCE in a region otherwise poorly represented by stratified settlements.
What is the evidence?
observation
A hearth or small activity context dates broadly from approximately 1200–550 BCE in a region otherwise poorly represented by stratified settlements.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.
1200 BCE–550 BCE
Precision: range
lowThis assertion records the event’s preferred range without suppressing narrower samples, phase uncertainty, or competing chronology noted elsewhere in the record.
- informs · dates
New Light on the Silent Millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000–900 BC — Lucarini, Giulio, Bokbot, Youssef, Broodbank, Cyprian (2021)Provides the site interpretation and broad date.
Locator: Tripolitania and Jefara discussion; SJ-03-83 - informs · dates
MedAfriCarbon: radiocarbon dates from Mediterranean Africa, 12000–600 cal BC — Lucarini, Giulio, Bokbot, Youssef, Broodbank, Cyprian, MedAfrica Project contributors (2020)Provides the compiled radiocarbon record.
Locator: SJ-03-83 dataset entry
Interpretation and caveats
The record supports mobile or temporary landscape use and continuity, not a permanent town or a precisely reconstructed coastal-Saharan trade route.
Event context
Classification
Event type: temporary pastoral activity
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: SJ-03-83, Jefara
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Tripolitania and Gulf of Sirte, Fezzan and central Sahara. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Provides the site interpretation and broad date. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: Tripolitania and Jefara discussion; SJ-03-83.
- Provides the compiled radiocarbon record. Role: dates. Locator: SJ-03-83 dataset entry.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
New Light on the Silent Millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000–900 BC — Lucarini, Giulio, Bokbot, Youssef, Broodbank, Cyprian (2021)Provides the site interpretation and broad date.
Locator: Tripolitania and Jefara discussion; SJ-03-83 - informs · dates
MedAfriCarbon: radiocarbon dates from Mediterranean Africa, 12000–600 cal BC — Lucarini, Giulio, Bokbot, Youssef, Broodbank, Cyprian, MedAfrica Project contributors (2020)Provides the compiled radiocarbon record.
Locator: SJ-03-83 dataset entry
Referenced records
- SJ-03-83, Jefara · entity