{
  "version": "1.0",
  "workingWindow": "~1250–1100 BCE",
  "methodRule": "This is a cross-site comparison of already-ingested independent datasets. It adds zero determinations and does not merge calibrated ranges into a single event.",
  "sites": [
    {
      "site": "Hazor",
      "profileId": "rc-hazor-destruction",
      "evidenceClass": "radiocarbon-integrated stratigraphic synthesis",
      "constraint": "Upper XIII ~1300–1250 BCE; terminal 1A/LB IIB ~1250–1230/1200 BCE",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Competing end-1B vs terminal-1A placement of the principal destruction remains explicit."
    },
    {
      "site": "Jericho",
      "profileId": "rc-jericho-lbii-constraint",
      "evidenceClass": "site periodization / synthesis",
      "constraint": "Sultan Vb LB IIB 1300–1200/1190 BCE",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Broad overlap with Hazor is real; exact same-year destruction is not demonstrated."
    },
    {
      "site": "Megiddo",
      "profileId": "rc-megiddo-high-resolution",
      "evidenceClass": "high-resolution determination-level Bayesian sequence",
      "constraint": "K-9→K-8 1290–1210; K-8→K-7 1245–1170; K-7→K-6 1185–1135; K-6→K-5 1135–1090 BCE (68.2%)",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Independent local transition ladder; no automatic synchronization with Hazor/Jericho."
    },
    {
      "site": "Beth-Shean",
      "profileId": "rc-beth-shean-transition",
      "evidenceClass": "short-lived determination-level transition series",
      "constraint": "N-4 aggregate distribution 1260–1240 / 1220–1120 BCE; modeled intermediate LB/Iron transition begins 1195–1135 BCE (1σ)",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Calibration plateau is broad; Bayesian boundary is site-specific."
    },
    {
      "site": "Qubur el-Walaydah",
      "profileId": "rc-qubur-el-walaydah-transition",
      "evidenceClass": "short-lived determination-level Bayesian sequence",
      "constraint": "LB III 1185–1140; LB→Iron transition 1140–1095 BCE",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Southern regional comparator; does not date Joshua."
    },
    {
      "site": "Tel Miqne-Ekron",
      "profileId": "rc-tel-miqne-ekron-iron",
      "evidenceClass": "short-lived determination-level sequence",
      "constraint": "VIIb sample 4286: 1190–1030 BCE (68%); VIb sample 4283: 1200–1050 BCE (68%)",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Broad plateau-era controls; one disturbed younger sample remains excluded from preferred chronology."
    },
    {
      "site": "Aphek",
      "profileId": "rc-aphek-x12-x8",
      "evidenceClass": "short-lived determination-level controls",
      "constraint": "X12 sample 4510: 1260–1120 BCE (68%)",
      "interpretiveBoundary": "Small two-horizon series; X8 younger result is retained as a regional-model misfit rather than discarded."
    }
  ],
  "conclusion": "Independent sites repeatedly place major Late Bronze / early Iron transitions across the 13th–12th centuries BCE. This makes the project's ~1250–1100 BCE working horizon regionally plausible, but the transitions are demonstrably staggered rather than a single synchronous destruction pulse.",
  "antiOverclaim": "Regional chronological coherence is not evidence that every destruction/transition was caused by the same people or event."
}