Qumran Textiles in the Palestine Exploration Fund, London: Radiocarbon Dating Results

Taylor, Joan E.; Rasmussen, Kaare Lund; Doudna, Gregory L.; Plicht, Johannes van der; Egsgaard, Helge

doi:10.1179/003103205x62990

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“…As it was apparent that the bulk of organics had been removed from the sediment as humic acids, radiocarbon dating using the humic acid fraction in the samples was used as an alternative method to standard radiocarbon dating and proved successful. All the remaining sediment samples were therefore treated using a single acid step only (Taylor et al, 2005) and the dating performed on carbon extracted from the bulk organics in the sediment. While it is recognised that bulk organics in sediment can be a mixture from different sources of carbon and therefore may not provide an accurate age for a specific layer, it may enable determination of sedimentation rates (Walker et al, 2007).…”

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The palaeoclimatic rainfall history from Lake Broadwater, southeast Queensland, Australia

Cottrill¹,

Ribbe²,

Maron³

et al. 2014

The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

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A palaeoclimatic Holocene rainfall history is reported for Lake Broadwater in southeast Queensland, Australia. This naturally occurring semi-permanent freshwater lake is part of the Condamine-Balonne Catchment on the Darling Downs. It is an important natural habitat for waterbirds and other wildlife, but it dried-out completely during the Australian Millennium Drought from 2001-2008. Lake sediments were sampled to a depth of about 1.7 m from the centre of the lake in March 2007. A detailed chronology developed from radiocarbon ('*C) dating indicates that sedimentation was fairly constant into the lake and averaged ~0.16 mm year' since about 11 kyr cal B.P. An interpretation of the palaeoclimatic record indicates higher rainfall and moist conditions prevailed from ~11 kyr to ~3.5 kyr cal B.P., followed by lower rainfall, decreasing further from ~2.2 kyr cal B.P to the present day. This change to drier conditions most likely reflects an increase in frequency and/or intensity of El Nifio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles which began in the mid-late Holocene and has been identified from other proxy records elsewhere in eastern Australia. The change to a lower rainfall regime suggests large-scale ocean/atmospheric circulation changes affecting not only coastal regions, but also inland regions of eastern Australia including the northern parts of the Murray-Darling Basin.

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The palaeoclimatic rainfall history from Lake Broadwater, southeast Queensland, Australia

Cottrill¹,

Ribbe²,

Maron³

et al. 2014

The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

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“…This was carefully washed and examined by the textile expert Grace Crowfoot, and published in a preliminary study and DJD 1 (Crowfoot 1951;. Three items of linen from the cave were discovered by one of the present authors over ten years ago stored in the Palestine Exploration Fund, labelled as coming from the 'Ain Feshkha Cave' (Taylor et al 2005), and identified according to Crowfoot gifted to the museum, with an accompanying letter from Harding dated 27 July, 1951(accession no. 1952.…”

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“…Therefore, the linen discovered in the Palestine Exploration Fund, no. 23 in Crowfoot's catalogue, was sent for radiocarbon dating at the Gröningen AMS Laboratory, which yielded a result of 1985+/-30 BP, calibrated to 40 BCE to 50 CE at 1-sigma (68% probability; see Taylor et al 2005).…”

Section: Linenmentioning

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Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Taylor

Mizzi

Fidanzio

2017

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

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Qumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. AbstractQumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. It constitutes preliminary work done as part of the Leverhulme funded International Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Caves Artefacts and Archival Sources.

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“…It is hard to believe that they were made specifically for such a purpose due to their appearance. 78 Further evidence that some of the textiles from Qumran were originally produced as garments, and were found in a state of secondary use, may be adduced from the fact that some of them had been bleached. No.…”

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Qumran Textiles and the Garments of Qumran’s Inhabitants

Sukenik¹,

Shamir²

2011

Dead Sea Discov

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Among the Qumran textiles that were kept at the Rockefeller Museum was a group of textiles that were unusual for Qumran. Most of them were made of wool, and some were dyed or decorated. Their marking QCC-Qumran Christmas Cave indicates their origin. In 2007 the cave was investigated by Porat, Eshel, and Frumkin. The cave is located in the bottom section of Kidron valley and doesn't belong to Qumran caves. It can now be determined that all of the textiles from Qumran are made solely of linen. They were free of any colored decoration, except for scroll wrappers that decorated in blue. This, and the simplicity and whiteness of the textiles from Qumran, is compatible with the literary sources. It appears that the people of Qumran wished to differentiate themselves from the rest of the population also on the basis of their style of garments.

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Qumran Textiles in the Palestine Exploration Fund, London: Radiocarbon Dating Results

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The palaeoclimatic rainfall history from Lake Broadwater, southeast Queensland, Australia

The palaeoclimatic rainfall history from Lake Broadwater, southeast Queensland, Australia

Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its Archaeological Assemblage

Qumran Textiles and the Garments of Qumran’s Inhabitants

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