15. Testing the Statistical EB IV Ceramic Study: New Excavations in Area C at Khirbat Iskandar
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 15. Testing the Statistical EB IV Ceramic Study: New Excavations in Area C at Khirbat Iskandar - Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Stanley Holdorf; Khirbat Iskandar Expedition |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Archaeology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Early Bronze Age; Southern Levant; Suzanne Richard; interconnectivity in the Levant; Chalcolithic; Middle Bronze Age; first urban period in Palestine |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Early Bronze Age; Southern Levant |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This paper focuses on a quantitative study of the Khirbat Iskandar Area C EB IV ceramics. The original statistical probability study, published in Volume 1 of the Expedition (Holdorf 2010), demonstrated a correlation between three ceramic phases and three stratigraphical phases excavated in Area C. In a second application, the innovative study was able to link the chronology of the tombs in the vicinity with the site’s three-phase typo-chronology. Further, the quantitative results, when applied to Bab adh-Dhra‘, both the site and the cemeteries, offered a first-time quantitative correlation between the phasing of two regionally separated EB IV sites. Renewed excavations in Area C in 2016 and 2019, intended to recheck the critical three-phase EB IV stratigraphic/ceramic chronology of the area, allows us to test hypotheses put forth in the quantitative study of the area. This paper represents a preliminary study of the 2016 and 2019 ceramics, using the methods of the previously published quantitative analysis and phasing in Area C. Although a relatively small sample, this analysis, nevertheless, provides an opportunity to test some of the conclusions drawn previously. The paper offers a summary of previous work along with a first glimpse at the new discoveries in Area C, with a discussion of the process and lessons learned from the previously published quantitative study. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 08-Nov-2021 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/37736 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.37736 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Levant, late 4th to early 2nd millennia BCE |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |