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Marsa Matruh I: The Excavation
White, Donald, Gardner, Rita, Hulin, Linda · 2002
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Document and modern access
- Type
- excavation_report
- Publication
- INSTAP Academic Press, 209
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Late Bronze Age occupation and metalworking at Bates’s Island, Marsa Matruh — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · dates · Late Bronze Age occupation, workshop, and ceramic chapters
Provides the settlement and assemblage evidence.
- date assertion Bates’s Island, Marsa Matruh — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation overview; Late Bronze Age occupation and workshop chapters
Provides the site sequence, workshop, houses, and ceramic connections.
- event Late Bronze Age occupation and metalworking at Bates’s Island, Marsa MatruhEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Late Bronze Age occupation, workshop, and ceramic chapters
Provides the settlement and assemblage evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Late Bronze Age occupation, workshop, and ceramic chapters
Provides the settlement and assemblage evidence.
- causal hypothesis Mediterranean exchange reorganized through multiple local processesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides archaeological observation · Late Bronze Age multi-regional assemblage
Shows complex exchange before the early Iron Age.
- relationship Late Bronze Age Marmaric coastal communities — interacted with — Bates’s Island, Marsa MatruhEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides archaeological observation · Late Bronze Age ceramic assemblage
Provides local and imported material at the site.
- relationship Bates’s Island, Marsa Matruh — materially connected to — CyprusEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Ceramic and exchange chapters
Provides Cypriot material at the site.
- entity Bates’s Island, Marsa MatruhEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation overview; Late Bronze Age occupation and workshop chapters
Provides the site sequence, workshop, houses, and ceramic connections.
- claim The multi-regional assemblage at Marsa Matruh demonstrates connections but does not identify one direct trade route or one resident ethnic colony.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports assignment and caveat · Excavation synthesis and ceramic assemblage chapters
Provides the connected assemblage and site scale.