MedAfriCarbon

The MedAfrica Project set out to produce the first comprehensive, empirical and interpretative synthesis of long-term social and economic dynamics on the African flank of the Mediterranean between the end of the last glacial (ca. 9600 BC) and the arrival of Phoenicians and Greeks (between 800 and 600 BC), and to identify major factors shaping the patterns detected.
To address these questions, MedAfriCarbon, a large and up-to-date database of published radiocarbon dates, was assembled with a systematic association of key cultural markers (e.g. presence/absence of domestic/wild species and material culture elements), allowing the first comprehensive chronological and cultural story for the prehistory of this region to emerge for a generation.