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The traditional date for the beginning of Iron Age I is c. 1200 BC. and in our paper we did not take issue with this; however, Bryant G. Wood, Palestinian Pottery of the Late Bronze Age: An Investigation of the Terminal LB II B Phase (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1985), shows that a date of around 1150 B.C. is actually required by the evidence.
Dominique Collon, The Seal Impressions from Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Neukirchen: Butzon and Bercker, 1975), p. 169; Marie-Henriette Carre Gates, Alalakh Levels VI and V: A Chronological Reassessment (Malibu, CA: Undena Publications, 1981), pp. 31–39; William G. Dever, “Relations Between Syria-Palestine and Egypt in the ‘Hyksos’ Period” in Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Essays in Honour of Olga Tufnell, ed. Jonathan N., Tubb (London: Institute of Archaeology, 1985), p. 70, Fig. 1.
