Radiocarbon Dates from Iron Age Strata at Tel Beth Shean and Tel Rehov

Radiocarbon Dates from Iron Age Gordion Are Confounded

K. DeVries et al. recently presented 14C dates from Iron Age Gordion.1 They claimed that those dates require a destruction date for the site during 827–803 BC (95%-confidence range), which is a century or more earlier than the dates previously proposed. Herein, their claim is examined. (DeVries et al. also claimed artefactual support for their earlier date. O. Muscarella, however, has argued th...

Tel-Aviv University

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Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

We all have strong intuitions about a connection between Coordination and the notion of "equivalence" (Hebrew: , תוליקש). This is reflected by the fact that researchers often use terms like ‘parallelism’, ‘similarity’, or ‘symmetry’ when providing structural definitions of coordinated constructions (e.g., Azar 1977; Haspelmath, 2007; Van Valin 1990). Certain questions, such as the following, re...

UniNE at CLEF 2008: TEL, and Persian IR

In our participation in this evaluation campaign, our first objective was to analyze retrieval effectiveness when using The European Library (TEL) corpora composed of very short descriptions (library catalog records) and also to evaluate the retrieval effectiveness of several IR models. As a second objective we wanted to design and evaluate a stopword list and a light stemming strategy for the ...