High-precision radiocarbon dating and historical biblical archaeology in southern Jordan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 16460-16465

  Levy, Thomas E ^a,b   Higham, Thomas ^d   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^d   Smith, Neil G ^a   Ben Yosef, Erez ^a   Robinson, Mark ^e   Münger, Stefan ^f   Knabb, Kyle ^a   Schulze, Jürgen P ^b   Najjar, Mohammad ^g   Tauxe, Lisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g Friends of Archaeology   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Archaeometallurgy; Iron age; Levant; Social evolution; StarCAVE

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; METAL;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BRONZE AGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; JORDAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CIVILIZATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JORDAN;

EID: 55949119670     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804950105     Document Type: Article

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