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The Sea Peoples, from cuneiform tablets to carbon dating

David Kaniewski, Elise Van Campo, Karel Van Lerberghe et al., 2011. PLOS ONE 6(6), e20232.

A stratified radiocarbon sequence from Gibala-Tell Tweini on the Syrian coast, anchored to texts and astronomical observations, dates the terminal destruction there and the collapse in the northern Levant to 1192–1190 BC.

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The best-dated destruction horizon in the northern Levant.

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Kaniewski, D., Van Campo, E., Van Lerberghe, K., Boiy, T., Vansteenhuyse, K., Jans, G., Nys, K., Weiss, H., Morhange, C., Otto, T., & Bretschneider, J. (2011). The Sea Peoples, from cuneiform tablets to carbon dating. PLOS ONE 6(6), e20232. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020232
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