Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6954, 2003, Pages 169-171

  Frumkin, Amos ^a   Shimron, Aryeh ^b   Rosenbaum, Jeff ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; HISTORY; RADIOMETRY; WATER SUPPLY TUNNELS;

BIBLICAL TEXT;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CARBON 14;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DATING METHOD; IRON AGE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; TUNNEL;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; ISRAEL; LITERATURE; PETROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0141480963     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01875     Document Type: Article

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