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Proto, Early Dynastic Egypt, and Early Bronze I-II of the Southern Levant: Some Uneasy 14C Correlations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Eliot Braun
Eliot Braun*
Affiliation:
Israel Antiquities Authority, P.O. Box 21, Jerusalem 91004. Email: eliot@israntique.org.il.
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A number of recent radiocarbon determinations from several sites in Israel suggest advancing, by some considerable period of time, both the onset of the cultural horizon known as Early Bronze I and the appearance of its latest phases. The logical outcome of the acceptance of these new dates puts such a strain on chronological correlations between the 14C data and the archaeological record that the entire system would no longer be tenable if they were accepted. This paper examines in detail the problematic nature of these “uneasy correlations.”

Type
Near East Chronology: Archaeology and Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 3 of 3) , 2001 , pp. 1279 - 1295
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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