The chronology of Tell el-Daba: A crucial meeting point of 14C dating, archaeology, and Egyptology in the 2nd millennium BC

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 407-422

  Kutschera, Walter ^a   Bietak, Manfred ^a,b   Wild, Eva Maria ^a   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^c   Dee, Michael ^c   Golser, Robin ^a   Kopetzky, Karin ^b   Stadler, Peter ^a,d   Steier, Peter ^a   Thanheiser, Ursula ^a   Weninger, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EGYPT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NILE DELTA;

EID: 84873838752     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200047172     Document Type: Article

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