Radiocarbon Chronology Of The Eb I-Ii And Ii-Iii Transitions At Tel Bet Yerah, And Its Implications For The Nature Of Social Change In The Southern Levant

A closely controlled radiocarbon sequence for the EB I-III, compiled over six seasons of excavations at Tel Bet Yerah, Israel, provides new information on the EB I-II and II-III transitions. These dates support the possibility of a decades-long overlap between some late EB I and early EB II sites and indicate a mid- to late 29th-century cal BC date for the introduction of Khirbet Kerak Ware in the southern Levant. South Levantine EB II is shown to co-extend neatly with the First Dynasty of Egypt.