Space and Time in Archaeology. Part 6. Archaeological Cultures of Bronze and Iron Ages
Creating a unified chronology of Stone Age, in which its individual cultures of different spatial localization could be incorporated, is a nontrivial scientific problem of modern archeology. We try to solve this problem with help of informatics-cybernetic approach. In 6th part of our work, in contexts of numerical model (using the reverse Fibonacci’s series and series with denominator 1/e e), we have undertaken a study of Bronze- and Iron-Age archaeological cultures in spatial and temporal terms. We used the term ‘evolutionary chrono-module-triad’ and expansion of the target criteria for classifying archaeological culture to a particular department of the Bronze/Iron Ages and Auro-argerolith (traditionally including temporary and cultural-archeological characteristics) by factor of human information complexity. The concepts of archaeological sub-epoch (ASE) and archaeological culture (AC) in the early development of archaeological epoch had a planetary character. But with the Upper Palaeolithic AC phenomenon in time and space is shrinking and crushed up to the regional scale and to the single period of ASE to Bronze and Iron Ages. This occurs on the "background" of the ASE duration shortening itself - from six typical periods to four. In our model, this reduction (in logarithmic time scale) of periods number must be distinguished from shortening of the ASE observed astronomical time existence. At the same time and change the structure of its phases and landmarks. Cultural and archaeological diversity largely accounts for the apparent phase of each ASE. Expanding, on the level of metalliferous ages, space occupancy of the ArC requires the introduction of additional LCPAA - Eurasia and New world. The thing ASE of Bronze Age - its subject-carrier - acquires the personality traits. Moreover, this subject becomes able to form the new information technology (IT). We are talking about writing IT, an example of which is its appearance in the Africa-middle East-Mediterranean LCPAA-1. Natural and endogenous development of individual ASE in coordinates "Subject-carrier of ASE" - "Basis of ASE material production" on the stages of Homo sapiens → H.s. neolithicus → H.s. paleometallicus → H.s. neometallicus went through various scenarios.