Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Levant
Angaben zur Quelle:
50,3 (2018) 363-386
Keywords:
Yadin, Yigael,
;
Iron age
;
Hatsor (Extinct city) (Israel) Antiquities
;
Hatsor (Extinct city) (Israel) History
Abstract:
Hazor, a key Iron Age II site in the southern Levant, was excavated by Yigael Yadin in the 1950s and subsequently by Amnon Ben-Tor. The Iron Age II stratigraphic sequence established proved very influential and nearly canonical; it was interpreted as representing periodic building-and-destruction cycles. The three superimposed ‘cities’ thus reconstructed were inter-alia understood to reflect alternating Israelite/Aramean domination in this conflict-prone border area before the final Assyrian destruction in the late 8th century BCE. Here we offer an alternative reconstruction for Hazor’s stratigraphic/architectural development, with repercussions for several chronological and political-historic aspects of the Kingdom of Israel and the greater Levant.
DOI:
10.1080/00758914.2019.1669337
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