Historic Dead Sea Level Fluctuations Calibrated with Geological and Archaeological Evidence |
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Authors: | Amos Frumkin Yoel Elitzur |
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Institution: | Geography Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel;Eretz-Israel Studies Department, Herzog College, Alon Shevut, 90433, Israel |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Abbreviations: Dead SeaAbbreviations: lake levelsAbbreviations: radiocarbon datingAbbreviations: archaeologyAbbreviations: Biblical chronologyAbbreviations: closed lakeAbbreviations: Jordan RiverAbbreviations: SodomAbbreviations: Mount SedomAbbreviations: Holocene environment |
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