Contents

pp v-viii

Preface

pp ix-xi

Abbreviations

pp xii-xii

I - INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMS

pp 1-2

1 - Introduction: Radiocarbon Dating and the Iron Age of the Southern Levant: Problems and potentials for the Oxford conference

pp 3-14

2 - The Debate over the Chronology of the Iron Age in the Southern Levant: Its history, the current situation, and a suggested resolution

pp 15-30

3 - A Low Chronology Update: Archaeology, history and bible

pp 31-42

4 - Shishak, King of Egypt: The challenges of Egyptian calendrical chronology

pp 43-54

II - SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

pp 55-56

5 - Improving the Resolution of Radiocarbon Dating by Statistical Analysis

pp 57-64

6 - The Early Iron Age Dating Project: Introduction, methodology, progress report and an update on the Tel Dor radiometric dates

pp 65-92

III - AROUND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN IN THE IRON AGE

pp 93-94

7 - Radiocarbon Calibration in the East Mediterranean Region: The East Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison Project (EMRCP) and the current the state of play

pp 95-103

8 - A Dendrochronological 14C Wiggle-match for the Early Iron Age of North Greece: A contribution to the debate about this period in the Southern Levant

pp 104-113

9 - High Precision Dating and Archaeological Chronologies: Revisiting an old problem

pp 114-126

IV - JORDAN IN THE IRON AGE

pp 127-128

10 - Lowland Edom and the High and Low Chronologies: Edomite state formation, the Bible and recent archaeological research in southern Jordan

pp 129-163

11 - Radiocarbon Dating of the Khirbat en-Nahas Site (Jordan) and Bayesian Modeling of the Results

pp 164-178

12 - Mesha, the Mishor, and the Chronology of Iron Age Madaba

pp 179-190

V - ISRAEL IN THE IRON AGE

pp 191-192

13 - Ladder of Time at Tel Reḥov: Stratigraphy, archaeological context, pottery and radiocarbon dates

pp 193-255

14 - Quality Control of Groningen 14C Results from Tel Reḥov: Repeatability and intercomparison of Proportional Gas Counting and AMS

pp 256-270

15 - The Groningen Radiocarbon Series from Tel Reḥov: OxCal Bayesian computations for the Iron IB–IIA boundary and Iron IIA destruction events

pp 271-293

16 - 14C Results from Megiddo, Tel Dor, Tel Reḥov and Tel Hadar: Where do they lead us?

pp 294-301

17 - High or Low: Megiddo and Reḥov

pp 302-309

18 - Correlation and Chronology: Samaria and Megiddo Redux

pp 310-322

19 - Iron-Age 14C Dates from Tel Dan: A high chronology

pp 323-336

20 - Iron I Chronology at Ashkelon: Preliminary results of the Leon Levy expedition

pp 337-348

21 - Desert Settlement through the Iron Age: Radiocarbon dates from Sinai and the Negev Highlands

pp 349-366