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A Response to Finkelstein and Piasetzky'S Criticism and “New Perspective”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Amihai Mazar  and
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Amihai Mazar
Affiliation:
The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Email: [email protected].
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
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The following short paper is a response to criticism by Finkelstein and Piasetzky (2010b), published in the present issue of Radiocarbon, of our 2008 paper in Radiocarbon concerning the evaluation of 14C dates from Iron Age levels in Israel published by Boaretto et al. (2005). We refer to criticism concerning exclusion and inclusion of data. We also evaluate new models suggested by Finkelstein and Piasetzky and in particular their suggestion of regional stages marking the end of the Iron Age in Israel. We also comment on several methodological issues.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , 2010 , pp. 1681 - 1688
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