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DOI	10.1186/s40494-022-00652-2
	Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the 'Christmas Cave' of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, West of the Dead Sea
	Rasmussen, Kaare Lund; van der Plicht, Johannes; Degano, Ilaria; Modugno, Francesca; Colombini, Maria Perla; de la Fuente, Guillermo; Delbey, Thomas; Frumkin, Amos; Davidovich, Uri; Porat, Roi; Shamir, Orit; Sukenik, Naama; Doudna, Greg; Taylor, Joan; Popovic, Mladen
通讯作者	Rasmussen, KL (corresponding author)，Univ Southern Denmark, Inst Phys Chem & Pharm, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
来源期刊	HERITAGE SCIENCE
ISSN	2050-7445
出版年	2022
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	The present study reports a series of interdisciplinary archaeometrical analyses of objects found in the Christmas Cave, which was discovered by John Allegro and his team in 1960 on the West Bank of the Dead Sea and assumed to be inhabited only in the Chalcolithic era and by Jewish refugees of the second century CE, at the end of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Like many other Judaean desert caves, there was an abundance of organic material, especially textiles, surviving in the dry environment. In the absence of clear stratigraphy and even a proper publication of the finds, the present study shows how archaeometry can provide important insights. We analysed food crusts on ceramics by gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection (GC-MS), made petrographic descriptions to estimated provenance of the ceramics, produced new radiocarbon dates from organic material and thermoluminescence (TL) dates from the pottery. It appears from the data that the Christmas Cave has been briefly inhabited or visited intermittently over a very long time, starting ca. 4000 BCE (the Chalcolithic period), and extending all the way to the Medieval period, even though there is also a concentration of dates near the period of the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-136 CE). We argue, through a detailed analysis of the radiometric and TL-datings and by the artefactual evidence, that there was likely another refuge episode connected with the First Jewish Revolt during which people fled to this cave. However, we see no material connection to Qumran and nearby caves. Overall, our study demonstrates the importance of archaeometric studies in cave environments where stratigraphy is veritably absent.
英文关键词	Christmas Cave Judean Desert Bar Kokhba Revolt Radiocarbon dating TL-dating Ceramic analyses Organic residue analyses Textiles
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E ; AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000751613400001
WOS关键词	FT-IR ; FIRING TEMPERATURE ; LIPID RESIDUES ; POTTERY ; SPECTROSCOPY ; CERAMICS ; LUMINESCENCE ; VESSELS ; QUMRAN ; RAMAN
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary ; Chemistry, Analytical ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Spectroscopy
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics ; Chemistry ; Materials Science ; Spectroscopy
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376327
作者单位	[Rasmussen, Kaare Lund] Univ Southern Denmark, Inst Phys Chem & Pharm, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark; [van der Plicht, Johannes] Univ Groningen, Ctr Isotope Res, Nijenborgh 46, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands; [Degano, Ilaria; Modugno, Francesca; Colombini, Maria Perla] Univ Pisa, Dept Chem & Ind Chem, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 3, I-56124 Pisa, Italy; [de la Fuente, Guillermo] Univ Nacl Catamarca, CONICET, Lab Petrol & Conservac Ceram, Escuela Arqueol, Campus Univ,Belgra 300, RA-4700 Catamarca, Argentina; [Delbey, Thomas] Cranfield Univ, Def Acad United Kingdom, Cranfield Forens Inst, Shrivenham SN6 8LA, England; [Frumkin, Amos] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Inst Earth Sci, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel; [Davidovich, Uri; Porat, Roi] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Inst Archaeol, IL-91905 Jerusalem, Israel; [Shamir, Orit; Sukenik, Naama] Israel Antiqu Author, Jerusalem, Israel; [Doudna, Greg] Dr Teol Univ Copenhagen, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA; [Taylor, Joan] Kings Coll London, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NR, England; [P...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rasmussen, Kaare Lund,van der Plicht, Johannes,Degano, Ilaria,et al. Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the 'Christmas Cave' of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, West of the Dead Sea[J],2022,10(1).
APA	Rasmussen, Kaare Lund.,van der Plicht, Johannes.,Degano, Ilaria.,Modugno, Francesca.,Colombini, Maria Perla.,...&Popovic, Mladen.(2022).Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the 'Christmas Cave' of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, West of the Dead Sea.HERITAGE SCIENCE,10(1).
MLA	Rasmussen, Kaare Lund,et al."Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the 'Christmas Cave' of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, West of the Dead Sea".HERITAGE SCIENCE 10.1(2022).