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- Title
Historic Dead Sea Level Fluctuations Calibrated with Geological and Archaeological Evidence
- Authors
Frumkin, Amos; Elitzur, Yoel
- Abstract
The Dead Sea, the Holocene terminal lake of the Jordan River catchment, has fluctuated during its history in response to climatic change. Biblical records, calibrated by radiocarbon-dated geological and archaeological evidence, reinforce and add detail to the chronology of the lake-level fluctuations. There are three historically documented phases of the Dead Sea in the Biblical record: low lake levels ca. 2000–1500 B.C.E. (before common era); high lake levels ca. 1500–1200 B.C.E.; and low lake levels between ca. 1000 and 700 B.C.E. The Biblical evidence indicates that during the dry periods the southern basin of the Dead Sea was completely dry, a fact that was not clear from the geological and archaeological data alone.
- Subjects
DEAD Sea (Israel &; Jordan); CHRONOLOGY
- Publication
Quaternary Research, 2002, Vol 57, Issue 3, p334
- ISSN
0033-5894
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1006/qres.2002.2330