Footnotes

1.

For an explanation of the carbon-14 method of dating, see the box above.

2.

However, the carbon-14 test tells us when the wood was cut. Some of the wood on this boat may have been reused from hulls of earlier boats.

3.

See “Gamla: The Masada of the North,” BAR 05:01 and Flavius Josephus, “The Fall of Gamla,” BAR 05:01.