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Tell el-Dabʿa and Levantine Middle Bronze Age Chronology: A Rejoinder to Manfred Bietak

1991; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 281; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1357164

2161-8062

William G. Dever,

Eurasian Exchange Networks

Manfred Bietak's excavations since 1966 at Tell el-Dabʿa have brought to light the ancient Hyksos capital of Avaris. The material culture of the early, "Asiatic" level in Strata G-F has significant correlations with Palestinian MB IIA. Bietak's "ultra-low" chronology, however, is 50 to 125 years too low. This paper challenges his latest (1984a) evidence for absolute dates and defends the "middle chronology."