Dating the Prehistoric Site Nahalissaron in the Southern Negev, Israel

  • Carmi I
  • Segal D
  • Goring-Morris A
  • et al.
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Abstract

The prehistoric site Nahal Issaron is located on the alluvial fan of Nahal Issaron, a short wadi draining into Biqat Uvda some 50 km north of Eilat. Excavated in the early 1980s, it constitutes a major Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) layer, with continued but sporadic occupation throughout the Late Neolithic to the Chalcolithic period. In the PPNB layer, a dense agglomeration of rounded, polygonal and rectangular structures was found, with courtyards and a variety of features such as hearths and ovens. The upper layer is badly preserved, apart from the hearths and ovens. Thirty samples from the site were 14 C-dated in the Rehovot laboratory and five in the Pretoria laboratory. The results enabled a fine temporal resolution between layers and a refinement of the 7th through 5th millennium bc chronology. The dates also placed the sequence of changes in architecture and lithics within a more robust temporal framework, thus making the site a key chronological anchor in the Neolithic of Southern Israel, Sinai and Jordan.

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Carmi, I., Segal, D., Goring-Morris, A. N., & Gopher, A. (1994). Dating the Prehistoric Site Nahalissaron in the Southern Negev, Israel. Radiocarbon, 36(3), 391–398. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200014569

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