The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues
Abstract
Between 2013–2017 Yosef Garfinkel and his colleagues conducted excavations at the northern side of Tel Lachish/Tell ed-Duweir. Their conclusions regarding the character and date of the site’s fortifications, and their conclusions regarding the date of Palace C, the last stage of the Palace–Fort, radically differ from the conclusions of the British excavations headed by James Starkey and the renewed excavations of Tel Aviv University headed by me. The interpretations and dates made by Garfinkel and his colleagues regarding the fortifications and the Palace-Fort (Palace C) cannot be accepted. The fortifications uncovered by them on the northern side fit what was known before about the fortifications and their date in other parts of the site.
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The nature and fortification of Lachish V is disputed and its start date is not well-defined by 14C, but probably falls in the 10th century BC.
“The nature and fortification of Lachish V is disputed [91, 155–157] and its start date is not well-defined by 14C, but probably falls in the 10th century BC [2, 91].”
From 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 (2023) · cites this paper as [156]
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- Authors
- Ussishkin, D.
- Affiliations
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Ussishkin, David
- ORCID
- Ussishkin, David
- Venue
- Palestine Exploration Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2022-02-01
- Volume
- 155
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 91-110
- ISSN
- 0031-0328 (ISSN-L)
- 1743-1301
- OpenAlex
- W4210347852
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 12.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Palestine Exploration Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Keywords
- Lachish, city walls, fortifications, archaeological dating, Iron Age
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