Early Bronze Age chronology: Radiocarbon dates and chronological models from Tel Yarmuth (Israel)

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 505-524

  Regev, Johanna ^a,b   de Miroschedji, Pierre ^c   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Inrap)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHARCOAL; CHRONOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84873821423     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200047238     Document Type: Article

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