Hiatus (archeology)

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Hiatus , also Hiat , is in prehistory or early history a "period without finds" that refers to the interruption

is traced back, on which there are both older and more recent finds that can be dated. Hiate (plur.) Are particularly clear in early settlements; so lies z. For example, between the Middle and Early Bronze Age of Crete, a layer of destruction followed by an almost no-found hiatus. In Thebai on the Mykale, near Miletus , a 700-year-old hiatus was found on the basis of the ceramic. The once postulated hiates "of a certain (large-scale) area" have turned out to be misinterpretations in Europe (especially in the south and in the middle) if they were Neolithic or younger.

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