Biblical Archaeology Review

William G. Dever, “The MB II C Stratification in the Northwest Gate Area at Shechem,” BASOR 216 (1974), pp. 45, 48.

Kathleen M. Kenyon, “Palestine in the Time of the Eighteenth Dynasty,” in Cambridge Ancient History, ed. I. E. S. Edwards et al., 3rd ed. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1973), vol. 2, part 1, pp. 541–542.

Bietak, “Avaris and Piramesse,” pp. 232–237. Bietak has refined and supported his revision in “Problems of Middle Bronze Age Chronology New Evidence from Egypt,” American Journal of Archaeology 88 (1984), pp. 471–485.

Shea, “The Conquests of Sharuhen and Megiddo Reconsidered,” IEJ 29 (1979), pp. 1–4; see also Bimson, Redating, pp. 125–126, 151.

Redford, “Contact Between Egypt and Jordan,” p. 117.

A multiple burial on the eastern side of the hill contained pottery from the end of LB II, i.e., just before the beginning of the Iron Age. However, the burial alone need not indicate occupation of the site at that time since burials often occurred away from settlements during the Late Bronze Age. The only other pottery that could be classed as Late Bronze would appear to be from the MB–LB transitional period. It is therefore in harmony with our suggestion that the site was destroyed and abandoned at the very end of MB II.

The results of the first six seasons are now being prepared for publication by Livingston.