Abstract Hazor, a key Iron Age II site in the southern Levant, was excavated by Yigael Yadin in the 1950s and subsequently by Amnon Ben-Tor. The Iron Age II stratigraphic sequence established proved very influential and nearly canonical; it was interpreted as representing periodic building-and-destruction cycles. The three superimposed ‘cities’ thus reconstructed were inter-alia understood to reflect alternating Israelite/Aramean domination in this conflict-prone border area before the final Assyrian destruction in the late 8th century BCE. Here we offer an alternative reconstruction for Hazor’s stratigraphic/architectural development, with repercussions for several chronological and political-historic aspects of the Kingdom of Israel and the greater Levant.

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难以捉摸的破坏：重新考虑夏琐铁器时代 II 序列及其年代和历史意义

摘要 Hazor 是黎凡特南部铁器时代 II 的重要遗址，由 Yigael Yadin 在 1950 年代挖掘，随后由 Amnon Ben-Tor 挖掘。所建立的铁器时代 II 地层序列证明非常有影响力，而且几乎是典型的；它被解释为代表周期性的建造和破坏循环。如此重建的三个叠加的“城市”除其他外，被理解为反映了在公元前 8 世纪后期亚述人最终毁灭之前，以色列/阿拉米人在这个容易发生冲突的边境地区交替统治。在这里，我们为夏琐的地层/建筑发展提供了另一种重建，对以色列王国和大黎凡特的几个年代和政治历史方面的影响。