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The Chronology of the Late Bronze (LB)-Iron Age (IA) Transition in the Southern Levant: A Response to Finkelstein’s Critique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Elisabetta Boaretto ,
Yotam Asscher Open the ORCID record for Yotam Asscher [Opens in a new window] ,
Louise A Hitchcock ,
Gunnar Lehmann ,
Aren M Maeir  and
Steve Weiner
Elisabetta Boaretto*
Affiliation:
D-REAMS Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Yotam Asscher
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova 35131, Italy
Louise A Hitchcock
Affiliation:
Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
Gunnar Lehmann
Affiliation:
Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Aren M Maeir
Affiliation:
The Ackerman Family Bar-Ilan University Expedition to Gath, the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
Steve Weiner
Affiliation:
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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*Corresponding author. Email: elisabetta.boaretto@weizmann.ac.il.
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Abstract

The question under discussion is whether the dates of the Late Bronze (LBIIB)-LBIII (Iron IA) transitions in three sites in the southern Levant, namely Megiddo, Tell es-Safi/Gath and Qubur el-Walaydah occur at the same time, as has been proposed by Israel Finkelstein in his article in 2016 in Egypt and Levant. Here we respond to Finkelstein’s comments. We add some new data, clarify the issues that were raised, and conclude that the Late Bronze (LBIIB)-LBIII (Iron IA) transitions occurred at different times in northern and southern Israel.

Keywords

microarchaeologyradiocarbon contextsouthern Levanttransition dating
Type
Technical Note
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Radiocarbon , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , February 2019 , pp. 1 - 11
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© 2018 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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