Electronic Publication/s proceedings Ernst Czerny The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. III 37 ISBN-13: 978-3-7001-3527-2 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-3998-0 Subject Area: Egyptology refereed - online - print

Preliminaries

Contents

Manfred Bietak, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Abbreviations

Manfred Bietak, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Ernst Czerny, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Preface page 10

Manfred Bietak, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Felix Höflmayer, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
High and low chronology page 13

Malcolm H. Wiener
Times Change: The Current State of the Debate in Old World Chronology page 25

Max Bichler - Barbara Duma - Heinz Huber - Andreas Musilek
Distinction of Pre-Minoan Pumice from Santorini, Greece page 49

Max Bichler - Heinz Huber - Peter Warren
Project Thera Ashes – Pumice Sample from Knossos page 59

Hendrik J. Bruins
Charcoal Radiocarbon Dates of Tell el-Dab^ca page 65

Hendrik J. Bruins - Amihai Mazar - Johannes van der Pflicht
The End of the 2nd Millennium BCE and the Transition from Iron I to Iron IIA: Radiocarbon Dates of Tel Rehov, Israel page 79

Start W. Manning
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 101

John A. Westgate - Sheri J. Preece - Warren J. Eastwood - William T. Perkins - Joanna S. Hart - Nicolas J.G. Pearce, author
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 139

Ilan Sharon - Ayelet Gilboa - Elisabetha Boaretto
14C and the Early Iron Age of Israel – Where are we really at? A Commentary on the Tel Rehov Radiometric Dates page 149

Uroš Anderlič - Maria G. Firneis
First Lunar Crescents for Babylon in the 2nd Millennium B.C. page 157

Kenneth A. Kitchen
Egyptian and Related Chronologies – Look, no Sciences, no Pots! page 163

Rolf Krauss
An Egyptian Chronology for Dynasties XIII to XXV page 173

Katherina Aslanidou
Some Ornamental Scenes on the Wall Paintings from Tell el Dabca: Iconography and Context page 191

David A. Aston
Kom Rabi^ca, Ezbet Helmi, and Saqqara NK 3507. A Study in Cross-Dating page 207

Bettina Bader
A Tale of Two Cities: First Results of a Comparison Between Avaris and Memphis page 249

Manfred Bietak
Bronze Age Paintings in the Levant: Chronological and Cultural Considerations page 269

Perla Fuscaldo
Tell el-Dab^ca: Some Remarks on the Pottery from ^cEzbet Helmi (Areas H/III and H/VI, Strata e/1 and d) page 301

Helen Jaquet-Gordon
A Habitation Site at Karnak North Prior to the New Kingdom page 317

Teodozja Rzeuska
Some Remarks on the Egyptian kernoi page 325

Sandra Antonetti
Intra moenia Middle Bronze Age Burials at Tell es-Sultan: A Chronological Perspective page 337

Michael Artzy
Tell Abu Hawam: News from the Late Bronze Age page 357

Frans van Koppen
Syrian Trade Routes of the Mari Age and MB II Hazor page 367

Mario A.S. Martin
A Collection of Egyptian and Egyptian-style Pottery at Beth Shean page 375

Mirko Novák
Mittani Empire and the Question of Absolute Chronology: Some Archaeological Considerations page 389

Luca Peyronel
Late Old Syrian Fortifications and Middle Syrian Re-Occupation on the Western Rampart at Tell Mardikh-Ebla page 403

Uwe Sievertsen
New Research on Middle Bronze Age Chronology of Western Syria page 423

Jean-Paul Thalmann
A Seldom Used Parameter in Pottery Studies: the Capacity of Pottery Vessels page 431

Lindy Crewe
The Foundation of Enkomi: A New Analysis of the Stratigraphic Sequence and Regional Ceramic Connections page 439

Walter Gauss - Rudolfine Smetana
Early and Middle Bronze Age Stratigraphy and Pottery from Aegina Kolonna page 451

Peter Pavúk
New Perspectives on Troia VI Chronology page 473

Jacke Philipps
The Amenhotep III ‘Plaques’ from Mycenae: Comparison, Contrast and a Question of Chronology page 479

Peter M. Warren
A New Pumice Analysis from Knossos and the End of Late Minoan I A page 495

Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy
Section “Mycenaeans and Philistines in the Levant”: Introduction page 501

Paul Åström
Sinda and the Absolute Chronology of Late Cypriote IIIA page 505

Tristan J. Barako
Coexistence and Impermeability: Egyptians and Philistines in Southern Canaan During the Twelfth Century BCE page 509

Israel Finkenstein
Is the Philistine Paradigm Still Viable? page 517

Elisabeth French
The Impact on Correlations to the Levant of the Recent Stratigraphic Evidence from the Argolid page 525

Marta Guzowska - Assaf Yasur-Landau
The Mycenaean Pottery from Tel Aphek: Chronology and Patterns of Trade page 537

Sophokles Hadjisavvas
The Public Face of the Absolute Chronology for Cypriot Prehistory page 547

Reinhard Jung
Tell Kazel and the Mycenaean Contacts with Amurru (Syria) page 551

Amihai Mazar
Myc IIIC in the Land Israel: Its Distribution, Date and Significance page 571

Penelope A. Mountjoy
The Dating of the Early LC IIIA Phase at Enkomi page 583

Constance von Rüden
Exchange Between Cyprus and Crete in the ‘Dark Ages’? page 595

David Ussishkin
Lachish and the Date of the Philistine Settlement in Canaan page 601

Assaf Yasur-Landau
Let’s Do the Time Warp again: Migration Processes and the Absolute Chronology of the Philistine Settlement page 609

Sharon Zuckerman
Dating the Destruction of Canaanite Hazor without Mycenaean Pottery? page 621

Manfred Bietak - Ernst Czerny
Publications page 631