14C and the iron age chronology debate: Rehov, Khirbet En-Nahas, Dan, and Megiddo

Israel Finkelstein; Eli Piasetzky

doi:10.1017/S0033822200038819

¹⁴C and the iron age chronology debate: Rehov, Khirbet En-Nahas, Dan, and Megiddo

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A recently published volume, The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science (Levy and Higham 2005), provides data related to the debate over the chronology of the Iron Age strata in the Levant (for a review, see Carmi 2006). The present article comments on several chapters in the volume. The article highlights methodological problems, such as insecure stratigraphic provenance of ¹⁴C samples, and demonstrates how unjustified selection of data can bias the result. The article offers a new interpretation to some of the results and shows that the full set of measurements from Tel Rehov supports the Low Chronology system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	373-386
Number of pages	14
Journal	Radiocarbon
Volume	48
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033822200038819
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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¹⁴C and the iron age chronology debate: Rehov, Khirbet En-Nahas, Dan, and Megiddo

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