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Chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: New Analysis for a High Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Johanna Regev ,
Pierre De Miroschedji ,
Raphael Greenberg ,
Eliot Braun ,
Zvi Greenhut  and
Elisabetta Boaretto
Johanna Regev*
Affiliation:
Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel Radiocarbon and Cosmogenic Isotopes Laboratory, Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Pierre De Miroschedji
Affiliation:
UMR 7041, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité, Maison de l'archéologie et de l'ethnologie, Boîte 17, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre cedex, France
Raphael Greenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East, Tel-Aviv University, P.O.B. 39040, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
Eliot Braun
Affiliation:
Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Zvi Greenhut
Affiliation:
Israel Antiquities Authority, P.O.B. 586, 91004 Jerusalem, Israel
Elisabetta Boaretto
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon and Cosmogenic Isotopes Laboratory, Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
*
Corresponding author. Email: johanna.regev@ymail.com
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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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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , 2012 , pp. 525 - 566
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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