http://hdl.handle.net/10150/635107 2026-04-11T12:12:36Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/655378 Radiocarbon, Volume 43, Number 3 (Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference, Part 3 of 3, 2001) From the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Jerusalem, Isreal, June 18-23, 2000. Complete digitized issue. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/655101 Editorial Board From the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Jerusalem, Isreal, June 18-23, 2000. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/654679 Towards an AMS Radiocarbon Chronology of Predynastic Egyptian Ceramics Savage, Stephen H. The wide and varied connections between Israel and Egypt during the Early Bronze Age/Predynastic are frequently calibrated through ceramics that depend to a large degree on two seriation methods developed for Predynastic Egypt. Petrie’s seriation technique and Kaiser’s Stufe dating method utilize whole forms from mortuary contexts. Because of the ways they were developed and deployed in Predynastic research, a logical tautology exists that makes their usage highly problematic. Radiocarbon dating of the Predynastic is vital if we are to untangle existing ceramic chronologies. But up to now, almost all 14C dates have come from domestic contexts where whole vessels are not usually found and which differ significantly from cemeteries in their ceramic assemblages. A 14C-based chronology of whole forms in the Petrie Corpus is thus highly desirable, but has proven elusive until now. Samples of organic materials and Black-Topped Red Ware vessels from over 100 graves in the Predynastic Cemetery, N7000, at Naga-ed-Dêr have recently been submitted for dating with AMS methods, providing the first comprehensive 14C chronology of a Predynastic cemetery. The results are compared to a suite of recalibrated dates from Upper Egyptian Predynastic domestic contexts, which allows the 14C chronology for the region to be further refined. Absolute date ranges for a number of ceramic forms can be estimated for the first time, and results of early analysis are discussed. From the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Jerusalem, Israel, June 18-23, 2000. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10150/654658 The Chronology of the Ghassulian Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Levant: New 14C Determinations from Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan Bourke, Stephen; Lawson, Ewan; Lovell, Jaimie; Hua, Quan; Zoppi, Ugo; Barbetti, Michael This article reports on ten new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates from the Chalcolithic period (fifth millennium BC) archaeological type-site of Teleilat Ghassul in Jordan. Early radiocarbon assays from the site proved difficultt o integrate with current relative chronological formulations. The ten new AMS dates and follow-up enquiries connected with the early assays suggest that the original dates were up to 500 years too early. A necessary reformulation of regional relative chronologies now views the Ghassul sequence falling between Late Neolithic Jericho and the Beersheban Chalcolithic. From the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Jerusalem, Israel, June 18-23, 2000. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z