The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC III

Preliminaries......Page 3
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 11
011 Preface......Page 13
013 High and low chronology......Page 15
025 Times Change - The Current State of the Debate in Old World Chronology......Page 27
049 Distinction of Pre-Minoan Pumice from Santorini, Greece......Page 51
059 Project Thera Ashes – Pumice Sample from Knossos......Page 61
065 Charcoal Radiocarbon Dates of Tell el-Dab'a......Page 67
079 The End of the 2nd Millennium BCE and the Transition from Iron I to Iron IIA - Radiocarbon Dates of Tel Rehov, Israel......Page 81
101 Clarifying the 'High' v. 'Low' Aegean/Cypriot Chronology for the Mid Second Millennium BC - Assessing the Evidence, Interpretive Frameworks, and Current State of the Debate......Page 103
139 Reinterpretation of Greenland Ice-core Data Recognises the Presence of the Late Holocene Aniakchak Tephra (Alaska), not the Minoan Tephra (Santorini), at 1645 BC......Page 141
149 14C and the Early Iron Age of Israel - Where are we really at? A Commentary on the Tel Rehov Radiometric Dates......Page 151
157 First Lunar Crescents for Babylon in the 2nd Millennium B.C.......Page 159
163 Egyptian and Related Chronologies - Look, no Sciences, no Pots!......Page 165
173 An Egyptian Chronology for Dynasties XIII to XXV......Page 175
191 Some Ornamental Scenes on the Wall Paintings from Tell el-Dab'a: Iconography and Context......Page 193
207 Kom Rabi'a, Ezbet Helmi, and Saqqara NK 3507. A Study in Cross-Dating......Page 209
249 A Tale of Two Cities......Page 251
269 Bronze Age Paintings in the Levant - Chronological and Cultural Considerations......Page 271
301 Tell el-Dab'a - Some Remarks on the Pottery from 'Ezbet Helmi......Page 303
317 A Habitation Site at Karnak North Prior to the New Kingdom......Page 319
325 Some Remarks on the Egyptian kernoi......Page 327
337 Intra moenia Middle Bronze Age Burials at Tell es-Sultan......Page 339
357 Tell Abu Hawam - News from the Late Bronze Age......Page 359
367 Syrian Trade Routes of the Mari Age and MB II Hazor......Page 369
375 A Collection of Egyptian and Egyptian-style Pottery at Beth Shean......Page 377
389 Mittani Empire and the Question of Absolute Chronology - Some Archaeological Considerations......Page 391
403 Late Old Syrian Fortifications and Middle Syrian Re-Occupation on the Western Rampart at Tell Mardikh-Ebla......Page 405
423 New Research on Middle Bronze Age Chronology of Western Syria......Page 425
431 A Seldom Used Parameter in Pottery Studies - the Capacity of Pottery Vessels......Page 433
439 The Foundation of Enkomi......Page 441
451 Early and Middle Bronze Age Stratigraphy and Pottery from Aegina Kolonna......Page 453
473 New Perspectives on Troia VI Chronology......Page 475
479 The Amenhotep III 'Plaques' from Mycenae......Page 481
495 A New Pumice Analysis from Knossos and the End of Late Minoan I A......Page 497
501 Section 'Mycenaeans and Philistines in the Levant' - Introduction......Page 503
505 Sinda and the Absolute Chronology of Late Cypriote IIIA......Page 507
509 Coexistence and Impermeability......Page 511
517 Is the Philistine Paradigm Still Viable?......Page 519
525 The Impact on Correlations to the Levant of the Recent Stratigraphic Evidence from the Argolid......Page 527
537 The Mycenaean Pottery from Tel Aphek - Chronology and Patterns of Trade......Page 539
547 The Public Face of the Absolute Chronology for Cypriot Prehistory......Page 549
551 Tell Kazel and the Mycenaean Contacts with Amurru (Syria)......Page 553
571 Myc IIIC in the Land Israel......Page 573
583 The Dating of the Early LC IIIA Phase at Enkomi......Page 585
595 Exchange Between Cyprus and Crete in the 'Dark Ages'?......Page 597
601 Lachish and the Date of the Philistine Settlement in Canaan......Page 603
609 Let's Do the Time Warp again: Migration Processes and the Absolute Chronology of the Philistine Settlement......Page 611
621 Dating the Destruction of Canaanite Hazor without Mycenaean Pottery?......Page 623
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