{
  "version": "1.0",
  "sourceId": "vaknin-campaigns-2022",
  "studyTitle": "Reconstructing biblical military campaigns using geomagnetic field data",
  "studyCorpus": {
    "burntDestructionLayers": 20,
    "archaeologicalSites": 17,
    "ceramicAssemblages": 2,
    "samples": 144,
    "specimens": 1186
  },
  "dataRepository": {
    "name": "MagIC",
    "contributionId": "19397",
    "url": "http://earthref.org/MagIC/19397"
  },
  "gap2Groups": [
    {
      "id": "pnas-bethsaida-kinneret-732",
      "label": "Bethsaida + Tel Kinnerot 733–732 BCE synchronization",
      "eventWindow": "733–732 BCE",
      "sites": [
        "bethsaida",
        "tel-kinnerot"
      ],
      "evidenceClass": "archaeointensity agreement between independently attributed destruction layers",
      "publishedConclusion": "Agreement between archaeointensity results reinforces concurrent destruction during Tiglath-Pileser III's 733–732 BCE campaign.",
      "numericStatus": "Group-level specimen values not transcribed in this pass because the supplementary tables were not cleanly recoverable from accessible machine-readable text.",
      "chronologyBoundary": "The 733–732 BCE attribution rests on archaeological and historical identification; magnetic agreement reinforces synchrony rather than independently naming the campaign."
    },
    {
      "id": "pnas-lachish-iii-701",
      "label": "Lachish III 701 BCE fixed gate anchor",
      "eventWindow": "701 BCE",
      "sites": [
        "lachish"
      ],
      "evidenceClass": "historically fixed destruction + direction/intensity anchor",
      "publishedConclusion": "The Lachish III destruction provides the 701 BCE chronological anchor against which other late-eighth-century destruction horizons are compared.",
      "numericStatus": "The original 2022 supplementary group values remain pending; the project already contains the independently published 2024 LC08 quantitative comparison dataset.",
      "chronologyBoundary": "701 BCE is fixed by historical and archaeological evidence; archaeomagnetic data characterize the field recorded by the destruction."
    },
    {
      "id": "pnas-judah-701-candidates",
      "label": "701 BCE Judah candidate destruction group",
      "eventWindow": "701 BCE / late eighth century BCE",
      "sites": [
        "beersheba",
        "tel-zayit",
        "tell-beit-mirsim",
        "tel-eton"
      ],
      "evidenceClass": "magnetic comparison to Lachish III anchor",
      "publishedConclusion": "Tel Beersheba, Tel Zayit XI and Tell Beit Mirsim are argued to have been destroyed in 701 BCE; Tel Eton is treated more cautiously because its inclination overlap with Lachish III is marginal.",
      "numericStatus": "Candidate relations recorded; exact group values are deferred until source tables can be transcribed reliably.",
      "chronologyBoundary": "Magnetic compatibility supports contemporaneity but is not equivalent to direct historical attestation."
    }
  ],
  "methodNote": "Vaknin et al. explicitly present archaeomagnetism as especially useful during the Hallstatt radiocarbon plateau, where radiocarbon resolution is limited. The project preserves that division of labor."
}