primary_scientific_research · src_webster_et_al_2023_gezer
The Chronology of Gezer from the End of the Late Bronze Age to Iron Age II: A Radiocarbon Study
Lyndelle C. Webster, and collaborators · 2023
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Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article and radiocarbon dataset
- Publication
- PLOS ONE, vol. 18, no. 11, e0293119
Records informed by this source
- claim Hazor, Lachish, Gezer, Megiddo, and other southern Levantine destruction or transition horizons do not form one securely synchronous event.Evidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Gezer Bayesian chronology
Independent sequence.
- claim Archaeology does not support one synchronous destruction wave matching the full Joshua conquest sequence.Evidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Gezer chronology
Shows separate sequence.
- ranked model Conquest and settlement modelsEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Gezer chronology
Site control.
- event Late Bronze to Iron Age sequence at GezerEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Bayesian chronology and phase discussion
Primary scientific chronology.
- date assertion Late Bronze to Iron Age sequence at Gezer — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · Bayesian chronology and phase discussion
Primary scientific chronology.
- geography assertion Gezer — geography assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · locates · site sequence and Bayesian chronology
Supports identification and archaeological location of Gezer; the point is a representative site locator, not an excavation footprint.
- relationship Gezer — located in — ShephelahEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · site sequence and Bayesian chronology
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- date assertion Gezer — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · site sequence and Bayesian chronology
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- entity GezerEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · site sequence and Bayesian chronology
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.