Objective
It was in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC that those cultures were formed in the Eastern Mediterranean, which shaped the history of the Ancient World. Our knowledge of this period proves to be, upon close examination, based on such uneven and controversial research that the basis of its history has to be re-established and re- examined. Chronological differences of up to 150 years from one region to another result in uncertainty as to which situation in one region corresponds to which conditions in another region. New dates that derive from the natural sciences contradict the historical dating. This consequently results in considerable shifting of the regional chronologies. An example of such was the attempt to give the eruption of the Thera volcano a high date, which was moved, based on natural scientific research, from the previous 1500-1520 BC to 1628 BC, without reviewing the consequent problems thus caused in the relationship to the Egyptian chronology.
In March 1999 a large-scale research project, which intends to set up a universally applicable chronology in the area of the Eastern Mediterranean was started at the Austrian Academy and the Austrian Science Fond. Scientists and scholars of different nationalities (Austria, Great-Britain, Germany, Israel) and research-areas (Archaeology, Ancient History, Physics, Dendrochronology, Astronomy) collaborate in a completely new way due to the intensity and large-scale of the project. Already, only a few months since the beginning of the project, which is estimated for duration of 10 years, valuable new results concerning the chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean can be offered. Apart from the scientific importance this project also offers a possibility for young researchers not only to work on their fields of interest but also to learn to co-operate within an international team.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- humanities history and archaeology history ancient history
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology volcanology
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy
- humanities history and archaeology archaeology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology dendrochronology
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