event · evt_utica_early_phoenician_horizon
Early Phoenician settlement horizon at Utica
A well deposit with radiocarbon-dated seeds and Phoenician, Greek Geometric, Sardinian, Libyan, Villanovan, and Tartessian ceramics dates to approximately 925–900 cal BCE.
What is the evidence?
observation
A well deposit with radiocarbon-dated seeds and Phoenician, Greek Geometric, Sardinian, Libyan, Villanovan, and Tartessian ceramics dates to approximately 925–900 cal BCE.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.
925 BCE–900 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
La colonización fenicia inicial en el Mediterráneo Central: nuevas excavaciones arqueológicas en Utica (Túnez) — López Castro, José L., Ferjaoui, Ahmed, Mederos Martín, Alfredo, Martínez Hahnmüller, Víctor, Ben Jerbania, Imed (2016)Provides the chronology and multi-regional assemblage.
Locator: pp. 68–89; well deposit, ceramic catalogue, and radiocarbon results - informs · dates
What the people of Utica (Tunisia) ate at a banquet in the 9th century BCE: zooarchaeology of a North African early Phoenician settlement — Cardoso, João Luís, López Castro, José L., Ferjaoui, Ahmed, Mederos Martín, Alfredo, Martínez Hahnmüller, Víctor, Ben Jerbania, Imed (2016)Supports associated feasting and animal exploitation.
Locator: pp. 314–322; faunal deposit
Interpretation and caveats
Utica was an early settlement and exchange node with mixed material connections. The deposit supports site-specific settlement, not a territorial Phoenician state across Tunisia.
Event context
Classification
Event type: settlement and exchange horizon
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Utica
Why it matters to the timeline
This event directly documents the North African research scope in Tunisia and central Maghreb, central Mediterranean connections. It is included for its regional evidence rather than merely because it is contemporary.
Research notes
- Provides the chronology and multi-regional assemblage. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: pp. 68–89; well deposit, ceramic catalogue, and radiocarbon results.
- Supports associated feasting and animal exploitation. Role: provides material analysis. Locator: pp. 314–322; faunal deposit.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
La colonización fenicia inicial en el Mediterráneo Central: nuevas excavaciones arqueológicas en Utica (Túnez) — López Castro, José L., Ferjaoui, Ahmed, Mederos Martín, Alfredo, Martínez Hahnmüller, Víctor, Ben Jerbania, Imed (2016)Provides the chronology and multi-regional assemblage.
Locator: pp. 68–89; well deposit, ceramic catalogue, and radiocarbon results - informs · provides material analysis
What the people of Utica (Tunisia) ate at a banquet in the 9th century BCE: zooarchaeology of a North African early Phoenician settlement — Cardoso, João Luís, López Castro, José L., Ferjaoui, Ahmed, Mederos Martín, Alfredo, Martínez Hahnmüller, Víctor, Ben Jerbania, Imed (2016)Supports associated feasting and animal exploitation.
Locator: pp. 314–322; faunal deposit
Referenced records
- Utica · entity