The Iron Age Chronology of the Levant: The State-of-Research at the 14C Dating Project, Spring 2006

Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 BCE): 1 The Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 177-192

  Sharon, Ilan ^a   Gilboa, Ayelet ^b   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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