causal hypothesis · hyp_coastal_continuity_network_reorganization
Coastal continuity and network reorganization model
Northern coastal communities survived the Bronze-Iron transition through city-level continuity, selective mobility, and reconfigured maritime networks that later developed into Phoenician systems.
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Research assessment
statement
Northern coastal communities survived the Bronze-Iron transition through city-level continuity, selective mobility, and reconfigured maritime networks that later developed into Phoenician systems.proposed mechanism
Existing ports, craft knowledge, hinterlands, and social institutions provided resilience; changing partners and political fragmentation shifted network structure rather than ending exchange.mechanisms
- Existing ports, craft knowledge, hinterlands, and social institutions provided resilience; changing partners and political fragmentation shifted network structure rather than ending exchange.
chronology test
Continuity should be visible at coastal sites before large western expansion, with maritime intensification developing unevenly from the eleventh to ninth centuries.geography test
Evidence should follow ports and hinterland corridors, not one early bounded Phoenician territory.supporting evidence
- Dor sequence
- Sidon harbour continuity
- early Phoenician material patterns
- later western Mediterranean expansion
important caveat
Phoenician is a retrospective label and should not erase local civic identities.Research description
Phoenician is a retrospective label and should not erase local civic identities.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
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Contradicting sources
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Other source context
- informs · proposes interpretation
The Southern Roots of the Phoenician World — Ayelet Gilboa (2022)Principal model.
Locator: southern roots - informs · provides archaeological observation
Capital of the Dor Ruler: Iron Age Dor and the Transition from Canaanite to Phoenician Culture — Ayelet Gilboa, Ilan Sharon, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (2015)Site test.
Locator: Dor sequence - informs · provides archaeological observation
Geoarchaeology of the Phoenician Harbours of Sidon — Nick Marriner, Christophe Morhange, Claude Doumet-Serhal (2006)Physical continuity.
Locator: harbour history - informs · contextualizes
The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade — María Eugenia Aubet (2001)Later network outcome.
Locator: western expansion