14C Date
8th-7th Century BCE
9th Century BCE
A01=Thomas Higham
A01=Thomas Levy
age
AMS Measurement
archaeometric analysis
Author_Thomas Higham
Author_Thomas Levy
Bayesian chronological modelling
bce
Category=NKD
century
Charred Cereal Grains
chronology
dendrochronology applications
der
Destruction Layer
Early 9th Century BCE
East Mediterranean archaeology
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
High Precision Radiocarbon Dating
Highest Relative Probability
iia
iron
Iron Age
Iron Age Ii
Iron Age IIA
Iron Age Strata
Iron IIA
Late 11th Century BCE
low
Low Chronology
Mid-9th Century BCE
palaeographic dating methods
plicht
Radiocarbon Dating
Ramses III
scientific dating of ancient Israel
settlement pattern studies
Southern Levant
Tel Dan Stela
Tel Reh Ov
Tel Rehov
van
Van Der Plicht
Product details
- ISBN 9781845530563
- Weight: 1156g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Over the past several years, a number of Levantine archaeologists working on the Iron Age (ca. 1200 - 586 BCE) have begun to employ high precision radiocarbon dating to solve a wide range of chronological, historical and social issues. The incorporation of high precision radiocarbon dating methods and statistical modelling into the archaeological 'tool box' of the 'Biblical archaeologist' is revolutionizing the field. In fact, Biblical archaeology is leading the field of world archaeology in how archaeologists must deal with history, historical texts, and material culture. A great deal of debate has been generated by this new research direction in southern Levantine (Israel, Jordan, Palestinian territories, southern Lebanon & Syria, the Sinai) archaeology. This book takes the pulse of how archaeology, science-based research methods and the Bible interface at the beginning of the 21st century and brings together a leading team of archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical scholars, radiocarbon dating specialists and other researchers who have embraced radiocarbon dating as a significant tool to test hypotheses concerning the historicity of aspects of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. As this book "raises the bar" in how archaeologists tackle historical issues as manifest in the interplay between the archaeological record and text, its interest will go well beyond the 'Holy Land.'
Thomas E. Levy is Professor of Anthropology and Judaic Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Formerly, the Assistant Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (one of the American Schools of Oriental Research) and the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology of the Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, he joined the UCSD faculty in 1992 where he has served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Judaic Studies Program. Since 1997 he has been the principal investigator of the Jabal Hamrat Fidan project in southern Jordan. Thomas Higham is Deputy Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University.
