{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Webster LC"],"funding":["Austrian Science Fund FWF","American Society of Overseas Research","Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation","Tandy Institute for Archaeology","Lipscomb University"],"pagination":["e0293119"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10651010"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with \"Tell Jezer\" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the firs"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["The chronology of Gezer from the end of the late bronze age to iron age II: A meeting point for radiocarbon, archaeology egyptology and the Bible."],"pmcid":["PMC10651010"],"funding_grant_id":["AP11332","Y-932","Heritage Excavation Fellowship"],"pubmed_authors":["Dee MW","Barbosa M","Arbino GP","Hua Q","Wolff SR","Jacobsen GE","Ortiz SM","Coyle C","Webster LC"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The chronology of Gezer from the end of the late bronze age to iron age II: A meeting point for radiocarbon, archaeology egyptology and the Bible.","description":"The ancient southern Levantine city of Gezer is well-known from Egyptian, Biblical and Assyrian sources, associated with power struggles, conquests, and intriguing tales involving figures such as Milkilu and Amenhotep III, Merneptah, the Philistines, Solomon and his unidentified pharaonic father-in-law, and Shishak / Sheshonq I. Since the identity of Gezer with \"Tell Jezer\" is quite literally 'set in stone' by some dozen boundary inscriptions, along with impressive Bronze and Iron Age remains, research at this site provides a unique opportunity to compare text and archaeology, as well as bring to light the undocumented everyday lives of the city's inhabitants. In this endeavour, independent scientific dating is crucial for anchoring the remains chronologically. This paper presents the firs","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023","modification":"2026-06-18T06:48:56.94Z","creation":"2025-04-19T16:16:24.213Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10651010","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37967047"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0293119"]}}