14 C and the Iron Age Chronology Debate: Rehov, Khirbet en-Nahas, Dan, and Megiddo
2006; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0033822200038819
ISSN1945-5755
AutoresIsrael Finkelstein, Eli Piasetzky,
Tópico(s)Biblical Studies and Interpretation
ResumoA recently published volume, The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science (Levy and Higham 2005), provides data related to the debate over the chronology of the Iron Age strata in the Levant (for a review, see Carmi 2006). The present article comments on several chapters in the volume. The article highlights methodological problems, such as insecure stratigraphic provenance of 14 C samples, and demonstrates how unjustified selection of data can bias the result. The article offers a new interpretation to some of the results and shows that the full set of measurements from Tel Rehov supports the Low Chronology system.
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