RADIOCARBON DATING SHOWS AN EARLY APPEARANCE OF PHILISTINE MATERIAL CULTURE IN TELL ES-SAFI/GATH, PHILISTIA

Yotam Asscher; Dan Cabanes; Louise A Hitchcock; Aren M Maeir; Steve Weiner; Elisabetta Boaretto

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RADIOCARBON DATING SHOWS AN EARLY APPEARANCE OF PHILISTINE MATERIAL CULTURE IN TELL ES-SAFI/GATH, PHILISTIA

Yotam Asscher, Dan Cabanes, Louise A Hitchcock, Aren M Maeir, Steve Weiner, Elisabetta Boaretto

Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research | UNIV ARIZONA DEPT GEOSCIENCES | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.2458/azu_rc.57.18391

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Louise Hitchcock Author Historical and Philosophical Studies

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In The Wake Of The Sea Peoples, In The Footsteps Of Goliath: Excavating The Philistine Site Of Tell Es-Safi/Gath

This project brings Australian research into the current scholarly debates on Philistine identity, a quickly growing sub-discipline in Medit..

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Awarded by European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)/ERC

Awarded by Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca del DIUE de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Funding Acknowledgements

Funding was provided by the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science and D-REAMS Radiocarbon Dating, Weizmann Institute of Science, and the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 229418. We would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous financial help from Mr George Schwartzman. D.C.'s contribution is part of the activities of the Equip de Recerca Arqueologica i Arqueometrica de la Universitat de Barcelona (ERAAUB), Consolidated Group (2014 SGR 845), thanks to the support of the Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca del DIUE de la Generalitat de Catalunya. We would like to thank Shira Kisos for her help in pottery drawings and photographs, and Brent Davis, Erin McGowan, James Stratford, Jill Katz, and Brianna Flynn for their help in determining the stratigraphy. Finally, we thank the staff and team of the Ackerman Family Bar-Ilan University Expedition at Gath for their dedicated work during and after the excavations.