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Title: Database for Fracturing Narratives of Colonization: Views of Early Iron Age Sicily through Metals and Metallurgy Embargo Deposited

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  • 05/01/2028
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  • Synthesis of published sources and macroscopic study of objects in museum contexts in Sicily.
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  • A database of over 4000 objects related to the production of metal objects and their use from Sicily dating mostly between 900 and 500 BCE. The dataset is largely focused on fibula evidence as well as materials from hoards. Almost all of the data set was assembled through the synthesis of published archaeological materials. The major exception to this statement is those materials with "unpublished" listed as their source. Those objects were personally observed in museum contexts. I also studied over 400 fibulae from the dataset in the store rooms of the Archaeological Museum of Siracusa, the results of which can be found in Chapter 4 of the dissertation.

  • Certain quirks of the data set merit brief discussion. ID numbers are not entirely sequential in the dataset, with gaps between certain spaces. This is a product of refining the dataset and replacing duplicates, the gaps are intentional and were not remedied due to the citation of specific ID numbers throughout the dissertation. Local typology as referred to in the database refers to the specific typologies developed for classifying the diverse forms that characterize individual object categories (i.e. axes, spears, ingots, etc.). The full Local typology explanation can be found in Appendix A of the dissertation document. There are two stratigraphic dates are provided. These two dates provide a reasonable range which has been assigned by the objects' excavators for the layer date for the find spot of a given object. This differs from the typological date, which is the date conventionally assigned by scholars for the production of a given typology of a specific object. Source data as provided in the main database file is abbreviated. The full citation can be found in the associated bibliography file.
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  • 2021 to 2024
Related items in Deep Blue Documents
  • Moskowitz, Alex 2025. "Fracturing Narratives of Colonization: Views of Early Iron Age Sicily through Metals and Metallurgy." Doctoral dissertation: University of Michigan. https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/25496
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  • 06/05/2025
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  • 06/05/2025
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  • https://doi.org/10.7302/cnpb-y392
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