Professor Robin Skeates robin.skeates@durham.ac.uk
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Neolithic Italy at 4004 BC: people and places
Skeates, R.
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R. Whitehouse
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M. Pearce
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Abstract
According to James Ussher, the creation of the world began on Sunday 23rd October, in the year 4004 BC (Ussher 1658). Ussher (1581–1656) was the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh in northern Ireland, and he deduced this date from his interpretation of the Old Testament, as a contribution to the long-running Christian theological debate on the age and history of the Earth (Barr 1985; Ford 2007). His creation date of 4004 BC was widely accepted in England in the eighteenth century, particularly when it was included in annotated editions of the influential King James Bible, although it was increasingly rejected by geologists and theologians in the nineteenth century, and is now a classic date remembered by historians of archaeology (e.g. Daniel 1975: 27), not to mention American creationists. For my purposes, it is also a convenient date upon which to base an experiment to establish what we can (and cannot) say about Neolithic Italy at a very specific point in time, focussing on the archaeological data from a sample of radiocarbon dated sites, whilst not ignoring the long-term trends with which archaeology is usually concerned.
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Skeates, R. (2013). Neolithic Italy at 4004 BC: people and places
Working Paper Type | Working Paper |
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Publication Date | Oct 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Mar 9, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 10, 2013 |
Series Title | Accordia Research Papers |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1169709 |
Publisher URL | http://dro.dur.ac.uk/11425 |
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