Chronological Conundrums : Egypt and the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 13 contains papers given at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in 2016. Integrates Egyptology with the Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and African Studies, and discusses Middle Bronze Age in the Levant and Egypt. 10 col and 20 b&w illus and tables.

This new volume brings together papers given at the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Levant Revisited: Chronology and Connections session of the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in San Antonio, Texas, in November 2016. The goal of the session was to stimulate a renewed discussion on Middle Bronze Age chronology for the southern Levant and its connections with Egypt, as several recent radiocarbon sequences from several sites challenge current chronological assessments and, thus, correlations with the historical chronology of Egypt. Changing the chronology of the Middle Bronze Age would have significant impact on current views on history and development of Near Eastern societies during the first half of the second millennium BCE. The articles assembled here give a first impression of this debate about historical trajectories, absolute chronology, and how discussion might develop in the future.