Radiocarbon chronology of the EB I–II and II–III transitions at Tel Bet Yerah, and its implications for the nature of social change in the southern Levant

Johanna Regev; Sarit Paz; Raphael Greenberg; Elisabetta Boaretto

doi:10.1080/00758914.2020.1727238

Radiocarbon chronology of the EB I–II and II–III transitions at Tel Bet Yerah, and its implications for the nature of social change in the southern Levant

Johanna Regev, Sarit Paz, Raphael Greenberg, Elisabetta Boaretto

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Abstract

A closely controlled radiocarbon sequence for the EB I–III, compiled over six seasons of excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, Israel, provides new information on the EB I–II and II–III transitions. These dates support the possibility of a decades-long overlap between some late EB I and early EB II sites and indicate a mid- to late 29th-century cal BC date for the introduction of Khirbet Kerak Ware in the southern Levant. South Levantine EB II is shown to co-extend neatly with the First Dynasty of Egypt.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	54-75
Number of pages	22
Journal	Levant
Volume	51
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2020.1727238
State	Published - 2 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Funding

Research for this paper was carried out with the support of the Israel Science Foundation (Grants 378/09 and 310/12), and with the assistance, in the field, of Yael Rotem and Mark Iserlis. Radiocarbon chronology, field work and microarchaeological research was supported by the Exilarch Foundation for the Dangoor Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (D-REAMS) Radiocarbon Laboratory, Max Planck–Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology, George Schwartzman fund for Archaeology and the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science. We would like to thank Ms Eugenia Mintz and Dr Lior Regev for the help in the sample preparation and measurement with D-REAMS.

Funders	Funder number
D-REAMS
Exilarch Foundation for the Dangoor Research Accelerator Mass Spectrometer
George Schwartzman fund for Archaeology
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science
Israel Science Foundation	378/09, 310/12

Keywords

Early Bronze Age
Khirbet Kerak Ware
Southern Levant
radiocarbon sequence
urbanization

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