Bronze Age World

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.

Preferred assertion

Precision: approximate

informs · contextualizes
Radiocarbon Dating and Balearic Prehistory: Reviewing the Periodization of the Prehistoric Sequence — Rafael Micó (2006)
Provides the periodization critique.

Locator: pp. 421–434
informs · contextualizes
Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC) — Francesco Iacono, Elisabetta Borgna, Maurizio Cattani, Claudio Cavazzuti, Helen Dawson, Yannis Galanakis, Maja Gori, Cristiano Iaia, Nicola Ialongo, Thibault Lachenal, Alberto Lorrio, Rafael Micó, Barry Molloy, Argyro Nafplioti, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch (2022)
Places the islands in wider Mediterranean context.

Locator: pp. 371–445, island comparisons

The islands are not treated as one synchronous culture or polity; site and island chronologies are preserved separately.

supports · contextualizes
Radiocarbon Dating and Balearic Prehistory: Reviewing the Periodization of the Prehistoric Sequence — Rafael Micó (2006)
Provides the periodization critique.

Locator: pp. 421–434
supports · contextualizes
Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC) — Francesco Iacono, Elisabetta Borgna, Maurizio Cattani, Claudio Cavazzuti, Helen Dawson, Yannis Galanakis, Maja Gori, Cristiano Iaia, Nicola Ialongo, Thibault Lachenal, Alberto Lorrio, Rafael Micó, Barry Molloy, Argyro Nafplioti, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Roberto Risch (2022)
Places the islands in wider Mediterranean context.

Locator: pp. 371–445, island comparisons