entity · site_carthage
Carthage
A Phoenician settlement whose earliest excavated radiocarbon evidence falls in the later ninth to early eighth century 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.
850 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides chronology
Radiocarbon Dates of Animal Bones in the Earliest Levels of Carthage — Roald F. Docter, Hans Georg Niemeyer, Albert J. Nijboer, Johannes van der Plicht (2006)Provides later ninth- to early eighth-century dates.
Locator: pp. 557–577; earliest-level animal bone radiocarbon dates - informs · locates
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places — Ancient World Mapping Center, Stoa ConsortiumProvides a representative site point.
Locator: Pleiades 314921
Research description
Carthage is included at the late edge of the project. The famous 814/813 BCE foundation date is recorded separately as a literary tradition; excavated radiocarbon evidence provides a range rather than exact confirmation of that year.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides chronology
Radiocarbon Dates of Animal Bones in the Earliest Levels of Carthage — Roald F. Docter, Hans Georg Niemeyer, Albert J. Nijboer, Johannes van der Plicht (2006)Provides later ninth- to early eighth-century dates.
Locator: pp. 557–577; earliest-level animal bone radiocarbon dates - informs · locates
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places — Ancient World Mapping Center, Stoa ConsortiumProvides a representative site point.
Locator: Pleiades 314921
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_carthage · geography assertion