Chronology

M.J. Adams, I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, The Great Temple of Early Bronze I Megiddo.

Tel Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley of Israel has been the most cited type-site of the Early Bronze Age Levant since the excavations of the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. Through the efforts of the Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition, the stratigraphic sequence of the Early Bronze Age has been significantly refined, and a new monumental temple dating to Early Bronze Age IB (ca. 3000 B.C.E) has been discovered.

Finkelstein, I. Halpern, B., Lehmann, G. and Niemann, H.M. 2006. The Megiddo Hinterland Project, In Finkelstein, I., Ussishkin, D., and Halpern, B. (eds.), Megiddo IV: The 1998-2002 Seasons, Tel Aviv: 705-776.

Fantalkin, A., Kleiman, A., Mommsen, H. and Finkelstein, I. 2020. Aegean Pottery in Iron IIA Megiddo: Typological, Chronological and Archaeometric Aspects. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 20: 135–147.

Fantalkin, A., Kleiman, A., Mommsen, H., and Finkelstein, I. 2020. Aegean Pottery in Iron IIA Megiddo: Typological, Archaeometric and Chronological Aspects, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 20: 135-147

I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, The Cache of Egyptianized Vessels from Megiddo; A Stratigraphical Update.

J. Regev, I. Finkelstein, M.J. Adams, E. Boaretto, Wiggle-matched 14C Chronology of Early Bronze Megiddo and the Synchronization of Egyptian and Levantine Chronologies.

In a recent study by Regev et al. (2012), the radiocarbon data of Southern Levant was reanalyzed, causing a revision of the traditional absolute chronology of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant. The new analysis demonstrated that the EB II was notably shorter than previously thought and that the EB III ended ca. 2500 BC, ca. 200‒300 years earlier than the traditional chronologies.

Finkelstein, I. 2009. Destructions: Megiddo as a Case Study, In Schleon, D.J. (ed.), Exploring the Longue Duree, Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager, Winona Lake: 113-126.

2013. Finkelstein I. and Sass B. The West Semitic alphabetic inscriptions, Late Bronze II to Iron IIA: Archeological context, distribution and chronology. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 2.2, 149–220.

Chronology

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