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Southern Palestinian Chronology: Two Radiocarbon Dates for the Early Bronze Age at Tell El-Hesi (Israel)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Roger W Anderson Jr
Roger W Anderson Jr*
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Several articles reporting radiocarbon dates of Early Bronze Age (EB) material from excavations in the southern Levant have been published over the last 30 yr. The excavations conducted at Tell el-Hesi have produced material from which 2 additional 14C dates have been extracted to date. The 2 samples confirm the EB dating of Field VI material and suggest EB III settlement at Hesi might be earlier than previously reported based on pottery typology.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 2006 , pp. 101 - 107
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Copyright © 2006 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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