CHRONOLOGY OF IBA SHAFT TOMBS IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT: INTEGRAL PART OF THE IBA CULTURE FROM BEGINNING TO END. Issue 5 (22nd October 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- CHRONOLOGY OF IBA SHAFT TOMBS IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT: INTEGRAL PART OF THE IBA CULTURE FROM BEGINNING TO END. Issue 5 (22nd October 2022)
- Main Title:
- CHRONOLOGY OF IBA SHAFT TOMBS IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT: INTEGRAL PART OF THE IBA CULTURE FROM BEGINNING TO END
- Authors:
- Lev, Ron
Govrin, Yehuda
Horowitz, Zach
Mintz, Eugenia
Regev, Lior
Boaretto, Elisabetta - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Vast burial fields, some with hundreds of burials, categorize the southern Levant's Intermediate Bronze Age period (IBA). This phenomenon contrasts with a limited number of burials found from the preceding Early Bronze III period. This paper presents the first radiocarbon dating research of sampled bones from shaft tombs from five IBA burial sites across Israel: Yehud, Jebel Qaaqir, Sheikh-Danon, Hazorea, and Kefar-Veradim. Prescreening methods, including Fourier transform infrared analysis, were applied to identify best-preserved collagen in archaeological bones for radiocarbon dating. Overall, the measured date ranges cover the IBA timeline, supporting the observation that the IBA signature shaft tombs are a fundamental tradition of the IBA culture, at least in Israel. A single IBA shaft tomb at Jebel Qaaqir which contained remains of multiple humans, supplied different dates for various people, spanning over a few hundred years. These results suggest a tribal or family-oriented IBA community with a long-lasting tradition reflected in centuries of collective burial practices.
- Is Part Of:
- Radiocarbon. Volume 64:Issue 5(2022)
- Journal:
- Radiocarbon
- Issue:
- Volume 64:Issue 5(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 64, Issue 5 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 64
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0064-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 969
- Page End:
- 987
- Publication Date:
- 2022-10-22
- Subjects:
- Intermediate Bronze Age -- radiocarbon dating -- southern Levant -- Shaft tumbs
Radiocarbon dating -- Periodicals
930.1028505 - Journal URLs:
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http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=RDC ↗
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon ↗
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/arizona/00338222/contp1-1.htm ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/RDC.2022.58 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0033-8222
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