Chronology of the early Bronze Age in the southern Levant: New analysis for a high chronology

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 525-566

  Regev, Johanna ^a,b   de Miroschedji, Pierre ^c   Greenberg, Raphael ^d   Braun, Eliot ^e   Greenhut, Zvi ^f   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Inrap)   (France)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e Ctr de Rech Francais de Jerusalem   (Israel)

^f ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; CHRONOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOCARBON DATING;

LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84873840996     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s003382220004724x     Document Type: Article

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