entity · site_utica
Utica
Also known as: Utique
An early Phoenician settlement in northern Tunisia with a securely dated tenth- to ninth-century BCE horizon.
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.
950 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- 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 925–900 cal BCE horizon and mixed assemblage.
Locator: pp. 68–89; well deposit 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)Provides the early feasting and animal exploitation evidence.
Locator: pp. 314–322; faunal assemblage - informs · locates
Utique archaeological site — Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie (2020)Provides an authoritative representative site coordinate.
Locator: Official site record; 10°3′45.33″E, 37°3′18.22″N
Research description
Excavated well deposits preserve radiocarbon-dated seeds and a cosmopolitan ceramic assemblage. Utica is treated as a specific settlement and exchange node, not as proof that all surrounding territory was under Phoenician political control.
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 925–900 cal BCE horizon and mixed assemblage.
Locator: pp. 68–89; well deposit 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)Provides the early feasting and animal exploitation evidence.
Locator: pp. 314–322; faunal assemblage - informs · locates
Utique archaeological site — Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie (2020)Provides an authoritative representative site coordinate.
Locator: Official site record; 10°3′45.33″E, 37°3′18.22″N
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_utica · geography assertion
- Geography assertion for site_utica · geography assertion