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Interpreting Radiocarbon Dates from Neolithic Halai, Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yorgos Facorellis  and
John E Coleman
Yorgos Facorellis*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Physico-Chemical Methods and Techniques, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Antiquities and Works of Art Conservation, Technical Educational Institute of Athens, A. Spiridonos, 12210 Aigaleo, Greece
John E Coleman
Affiliation:
Emeritus of Classics, Halai and East Lokris Project, Department of Classics, Cornell University, Ithaca New York 14850, USA
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Archaeological investigations at Halai, a small city-state on the sea coast of East Lokris in Greece, have been carried out since 1986 by the Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project (CHELP). The town's acropolis, first inhabited in the Neolithic period, was in Greco-Roman times a political and cultural center controlling and serving a considerable territory. Radiocarbon dating of charred material unearthed from Neolithic deposits indicate that the Neolithic occupation probably lasted from about 6000 to 5300 BC. Details of dating are somewhat problematic, however, because of outlying determinations and lack of close agreement between determinations from the same or stratigraphically comparable material.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , 2012 , pp. 319 - 330
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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