The Iron Age chronology at Arslantepe is the result of the interpretation of Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions and archaeological data coming from the site and its surrounding region. A new round of investigations of the Iron Age levels has been conducted at the site over the last 10 years. Preliminary results allowed the combination of the archaeological sequence with the historical events that extended from the collapse of the Late Bronze Age empires to the formation and development of the new Iron Age kingdoms. The integration into this picture of a new set of radiocarbon (14C) dates is aimed at establishing a more solid local chronology. High precision 14C dating by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and its correlation with archaeobotanical analysis and stratigraphic data are presented here with the purpose of improving our knowledge of the site’s history and to build a reliable absolute chronology of the Iron Age. The results show that the earliest level of the sequence dates to ca. the mid-13th century BC, implying that the site started developing a new set of relationships with the Levant already before the breakdown of the Hittite empire, entailing important historical implications for the Syro-Anatolian region at the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

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Arslantepe 铁器时代的开始：14C 的视角

Arslantepe 的铁器时代年表是对来自该遗址及其周边地区的卢维象形文字铭文和考古数据进行解释的结果。在过去的 10 年里，对该地点进行了新一轮的铁器时代水平调查。初步结果允许将考古序列与从青铜时代晚期帝国的崩溃延伸到新铁器时代王国的形成和发展的历史事件相结合。一组新的放射性碳（14C) 日期旨在建立更坚实的地方年表。高精准度14本文介绍了通过加速器质谱法 (AMS) 进行的 C 测年及其与考古植物学分析和地层学数据的相关性，目的是提高我们对该遗址历史的了解并建立可靠的铁器时代绝对年表。结果表明，该序列的最早水平可追溯到 ca。公元前 13 世纪中叶，这意味着该遗址在赫梯帝国崩溃之前就已经开始与黎凡特建立一套新的关系，这对公元前 2 世纪末的叙利亚-安纳托利亚地区产生了重要的历史意义。