BU Research Blog

Last week saw the publication of a new paper entitled: Dating WF16: Exploring the Chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement in the Southern Levant in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (London). This was published by BU staff member Emma Jenkins who is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and colleagues from the University of Reading and Oxford Brookes University. This is a significant paper which presents 46 AMS Radiocarbon dates from the site and utilizes Bayesian methods to try and establish a chronology for WF16, one of the earliest settlements in the world which is located in southern Jordan. The excavation was unique in its size and scope for a site of this time period and in the number of AMS dates obtained. This paper makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Neolithic in the Levant-a time and place which saw the transition from mobile hunter-gatherers to settled farming communities. The paper is published Gold Open access and is available here: http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23519/