TY - JOUR
T1 - Chronology of the early Bronze Age in the southern Levant
T2 - New analysis for a high chronology
AU - Regev, Johanna
AU - de Miroschedji, Pierre
AU - Greenberg, Raphael
AU - Braun, Eliot
AU - Greenhut, Zvi
AU - Boaretto, Elisabetta
N1 - NEH Fellowship at the W F Albright Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, IsraelSome of this data was reviewed under the ARCANE project by several members. We wish to thank those who contributed to the understanding of specific <SUP>14</SUP>C sample contexts: Baruch Brandl, Hermann Genz, Amir Golani, Peter Fischer, Sarit Paz, Naama Scheftelowitz, Steve Rosen, and Michael Sebanne, as well as the excavators who have kindly let us use some of the yet-unpublished <SUP>14</SUP>C dates for this paper: Emanuel Eisenberg, Timothy Harrison, and Edwin van den Brink. We are grateful for the valuable comments of the reviewers, who also brought to our attention additional dates that were included in the study. E Braun's contribution to this paper was done while an NEH Fellowship at the W F Albright Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel. We wish to thank Lior Regev for assisting with some of the figures and manuscript, as well as Leticia Barda from IAA for preparing the map of the EBA sites with <SUP>14</SUP>C measurements.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The chronology of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the southern Levant and the synchronization between the sites, considering seriation and radiocarbon dates, have shown large inconsistencies and disagreement. We have assembled 420 14C dates, most of them previously published and a few provided directly by the excavators. The dates have been re-evaluated on the basis of their archaeological context and using analytical criteria. Bayesian modeling has been applied to the selected dates in relation to the given seriation of the EBA subperiods (EB I, II III, IV). Sites with 2 or more sequential sub-phases were individually modeled in order to define the transitions between the subperiods. The new chronology indicates that the EB I-II transition occurred site-dependently between 3200-2900 BC, with EB II-III around 2900 BC, and EB III- IV ~2500 BC.
AB - The chronology of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the southern Levant and the synchronization between the sites, considering seriation and radiocarbon dates, have shown large inconsistencies and disagreement. We have assembled 420 14C dates, most of them previously published and a few provided directly by the excavators. The dates have been re-evaluated on the basis of their archaeological context and using analytical criteria. Bayesian modeling has been applied to the selected dates in relation to the given seriation of the EBA subperiods (EB I, II III, IV). Sites with 2 or more sequential sub-phases were individually modeled in order to define the transitions between the subperiods. The new chronology indicates that the EB I-II transition occurred site-dependently between 3200-2900 BC, with EB II-III around 2900 BC, and EB III- IV ~2500 BC.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S003382220004724X
DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S003382220004724X
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0033-8222
VL - 54
SP - 525
EP - 566
JO - Radiocarbon
JF - Radiocarbon
IS - 3-4
ER -