Around 1700 BC, Tall el-Hammam was destroyed. The published radiocarbon result places the destruction horizon within a 93.1% probability range of 1773–1627 BCE, consistent with an approximate 1700 BC date. More than 100 radiocarbon determinations support that Middle Bronze Age horizon, but they do not confirm an exact year. The Middle Bronze Age was generally a period of regional urban prosperity. Several Kikar sites have destruction horizons from this period; the video argues that they form a single regional catastrophe, but the dating does not show that every site was destroyed simultaneously in 1700 BC.
Radiocarbon dates place Tall el-Hammam's destruction around 1700 BC
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- The published radiocarbon result gives a 93.1% probability range of 1773–1627 BCE, consistent with an approximate 1700 BC destruction date.
- More than 100 radiocarbon determinations support the site's Middle Bronze Age destruction horizon, but do not confirm 1700 BC as an exact year.
- The Middle Bronze Age was a period of widespread prosperity across much of the region; claiming that every surrounding civilisation was thriving is too absolute.
- Many sites in the Kikar have Middle Bronze Age destruction horizons. The video interprets these as a broadly simultaneous regional catastrophe; the radiocarbon evidence does not establish that every site was destroyed at exactly the same time.
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Tell el-Hammam - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
... el-Hammam was destroyed cataclysmically by an airburst. Two-thirds of the authors are members of the Comet Research Group, which also claims that ...
Tunguska-Sized Impact Destroyed Jordan Valley City 3,670 Years Agosci.news
Archaeologists have found evidence that in 1650 BCE (Middle Bronze Age), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, an ancient walled city in the Jordan ...
Uncovering the Biblical City of Sodom | ArmstrongInstitute.orgarmstronginstitute.org
The date of Tall el-Hammam's destruction has been a major point of contention. ... Generally speaking, Tall el-Hammam was destroyed within the 18th to 17th ...
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle ...zenodo.org
Excavations reveal that more than 12 m of a palace complex and a massive mudbrick rampart were leveled, and widespread fatalities occurred, with ...
Dodgy radiocarbon modelling at Tell el-Hammam (not-Sodom)joeroe.io
A recent paper in the Nature Group's Scientific Reports claimed that Tell el-Hammam, a prehistoric site in Jordan, was destroyed by a “Tunguska-sized airburst” ...
Reports & Publications - Tall el-Hammam Excavation Projecttallelhammam.com
This volume presents an overview of the site, with a period-by-period overview of Tall al-Hammam and its relationship to other sites in the vicinity in the ...
Tall El-Hammam 2008: A Personal Perspectivebiblearchaeology.org
Dating as far back as the beginning of the Early Bronze Age (3000 BC), they may have served as a sort of family shrine or funerary monument for the departed.
Buried secrets of the Bible, Jordan | Our Workwessexarch.co.uk
One of these sites is Tel el-Hammam, a large tell with archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. The site is located north-east of ...
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