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Jüngling, Johannes; Höflmayer, Felix (2023)
Early Dynastic/Old Kingdom Egypt and the Early Bronze Age Levant: The History of the 3rd and 4th
Dynasties and New Radiocarbon Dates in Dialogue
In: Karin Sowada, Matthew J. Adams (edd.), Egypt and the Meditarranean World from the Late Fourth through the Third Millennium BCE. Proceedings of the Conference Held 18–27 May 2021, Amman, Cairo, Jerusalem, Sydney, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 37, Phoenix, AZ, 191–222.
Lengths of the embargo period: Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1553/ERC_StG_757951_Jüngling_Höflmayer_JAEI_37
Abstract
This paper aims to give an overview of the current state of research on (contemporaneous) inscriptional evidence for a historical chronology of the 3rd and 4th dynasties, to explore the impact of different modes of interpreting this evidence on radiocarbon dates from Egypt, and to consider possible synchronizations between Egyptian history and the transitions from Early Bronze Age III to IV in the Southern Levant.
Therefore, the currently available data are re-evaluated, and a model for a biennial cattle count in the early Old Kingdom is proposed. In order to specify the EB III–IV transition, recent radiocarbon sequences from nine different sites in the Southern Levant are surveyed.
Project
Challenging Time(s)´ – A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology ( CT)
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 757951 and is hosted at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The results published are solely within the author’s responsibility and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Research Council or the European Commission who must not be held responsible for either contents or their further use.
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