Article Title：Historic dead sea level fluctuations calibrated with geological and archaeological evidence
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. (C) 2002 University of Washington.
Keywords: Dead Sea; lake levels; radiocarbon dating; archaeology; Biblical chronology; closed lake; Jordan River; Sodom; Mount Sedom; Holocene environment
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2002.2330
Source：QUATERNARY RESEARCH
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