The synchronisation of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. III : proceedings of the SCIEM 2000-- 2nd EuroConference Vienna, 28th of May-1st of June 2004

M. Wiener's key-lecture entitled "Times The current state of the Debate in Old World Chronology" provides the volume's introduction, followed by the section "Science and Chronology", which includes, among others, several controversial studies on the results of carbon-14 dating. An important point for the ongoing discussion on Aegean chronology is made by Pearce et al., who demonstrate that certain traces in Greenland ice-core layers, previously taken to be stemming from the Minoan eruption of Thera, in fact originate from eruptions of the Aniakchak volcano in Alaska. The volume next includes articles that deal with historical chronology and archaeological evidence, arranged in the sections "Egypt", "The Levant and Syria" and "The Aegean, Cyprus and adjacent regions". In addition to reports and analyses dealing with many aspects of the chronology and archaeology of these regions, this part also contains M. Bietak's study on all wall-paintings from Egypt, Israel, Syria and the Levant considered to be Minoan. Preliminaries......Page 3 Contents......Page 7 Abbreviations......Page 11 011 Preface......Page 13 013 High and low chronology......Page 15 025 Times Change - The Current State of the Debate in Old World Chronology......Page 27 049 Distinction of Pre-Minoan Pumice from Santorini, Greece......Page 51 059 Project Thera Ashes – Pumice Sample from Knossos......Page 61 065 Charcoal Radiocarbon Dates of Tell el-Dab'a......Page 67 079 The End of the 2nd Millennium BCE and the Transition from Iron I to Iron IIA - Radiocarbon Dates of Tel Rehov, Israel......Page 81 101 Clarifying the 'High' v. 'Low' Aegean/Cypriot Chronology for the Mid Second Millennium BC - Assessing the Evidence, Interpretive Frameworks, and Current State of the Debate......Page 103 139 Reinterpretation of Greenland Ice-core Data Recognises the Presence of the Late Holocene Aniakchak Tephra (Alaska), not the Minoan Tephra (Santorini), at 1645 BC......Page 141 149 14C and the Early Iron Age of Israel - Where are we really at? A Commentary on the Tel Rehov Radiometric Dates......Page 151 157 First Lunar Crescents for Babylon in the 2nd Millennium B.C.......Page 159 163 Egyptian and Related Chronologies - Look, no Sciences, no Pots!......Page 165 173 An Egyptian Chronology for Dynasties XIII to XXV......Page 175 191 Some Ornamental Scenes on the Wall Paintings from Tell el-Dab'a: Iconography and Context......Page 193 207 Kom Rabi'a, Ezbet Helmi, and Saqqara NK 3507. A Study in Cross-Dating......Page 209 249 A Tale of Two Cities......Page 251 269 Bronze Age Paintings in the Levant - Chronological and Cultural Considerations......Page 271 301 Tell el-Dab'a - Some Remarks on the Pottery from 'Ezbet Helmi......Page 303 317 A Habitation Site at Karnak North Prior to the New Kingdom......Page 319 325 Some Remarks on the Egyptian kernoi......Page 327 337 Intra moenia Middle Bronze Age Burials at Tell es-Sultan......Page 339 357 Tell Abu Hawam - News from the Late Bronze Age......Page 359 367 Syrian Trade Routes of the Mari Age and MB II Hazor......Page 369 375 A Collection of Egyptian and Egyptian-style Pottery at Beth Shean......Page 377 389 Mittani Empire and the Question of Absolute Chronology - Some Archaeological Considerations......Page 391 403 Late Old Syrian Fortifications and Middle Syrian Re-Occupation on the Western Rampart at Tell Mardikh-Ebla......Page 405 423 New Research on Middle Bronze Age Chronology of Western Syria......Page 425 431 A Seldom Used Parameter in Pottery Studies - the Capacity of Pottery Vessels......Page 433 439 The Foundation of Enkomi......Page 441 451 Early and Middle Bronze Age Stratigraphy and Pottery from Aegina Kolonna......Page 453 473 New Perspectives on Troia VI Chronology......Page 475 479 The Amenhotep III 'Plaques' from Mycenae......Page 481 495 A New Pumice Analysis from Knossos and the End of Late Minoan I A......Page 497 501 Section 'Mycenaeans and Philistines in the Levant' - Introduction......Page 503 505 Sinda and the Absolute Chronology of Late Cypriote IIIA......Page 507 509 Coexistence and Impermeability......Page 511 517 Is the Philistine Paradigm Still Viable?......Page 519 525 The Impact on Correlations to the Levant of the Recent Stratigraphic Evidence from the Argolid......Page 527 537 The Mycenaean Pottery from Tel Aphek - Chronology and Patterns of Trade......Page 539 547 The Public Face of the Absolute Chronology for Cypriot Prehistory......Page 549 551 Tell Kazel and the Mycenaean Contacts with Amurru (Syria)......Page 553 571 Myc IIIC in the Land Israel......Page 573 583 The Dating of the Early LC IIIA Phase at Enkomi......Page 585 595 Exchange Between Cyprus and Crete in the 'Dark Ages'?......Page 597 601 Lachish and the Date of the Philistine Settlement in Canaan......Page 603 609 Let's Do the Time Warp again: Migration Processes and the Absolute Chronology of the Philistine Settlement......Page 611 621 Dating the Destruction of Canaanite Hazor without Mycenaean Pottery?......Page 623 bm......Page 633 Edited By Manfred Bietak And Ernst Czerny ; Editorial Committee: Irene Kaplan And Angela Schwab. Internat. Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References.