Volume 89, Issue 1 p. 63-75
Original Article

TWENTY YEARS AFTER “ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EUROPE 2500-500 BC” NEW DATA ON ITALIAN PROTOHISTORY

Alessandro Guidi

Alessandro Guidi

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università Roma Tre, Via Ostiense 234/236, 00146 Roma RM Italy

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First published: 15 January 2019
Citations: 1

ABSTRACT

The article is a tribute to the pioneering role of Klavs Randsborg in the early Nineties in search for a new comprehensive chronology for Italian and European prehistory based on a combination of dendrodates with C14 dates. The debate of the last 25 years on this matter is presented, demonstrating a scholarly split, in particular in Italy. At the same time, an Italian peculiarity, the presence of layers of volcanic eruptions mixed with archaeological deposits is proposed as a sort of meeting ground for opponents and proponents of absolute chronology and a way to pair it with known cultural phenomena.

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