TY - JOUR
T1 - 14C and the iron age chronology debate
T2 - Rehov, Khirbet En-Nahas, Dan, and Megiddo
AU - Finkelstein, Israel
AU - Piasetzky, Eli
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67651200755&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0033822200038819
DO - 10.1017/S0033822200038819
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AN - SCOPUS:67651200755
SN - 0033-8222
VL - 48
SP - 373
EP - 386
JO - Radiocarbon
JF - Radiocarbon
IS - 3
ER -