See M. Artzy, F. Asaro and I. Perlman, “The Origin of the ‘Palestinian’ Bichrome Ware,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 93 (1973), pp. 446–461. The significance of bichrome ware for B&L’s argument has been underscored by D. Merling, in an unpublished study, “An Evaluation of John Bimson’s Redating the Beginning of Late Bronze Age.” On the Cypriot imports generally, see Eliezer D. Oren, “Cypriot Imports in the Palestinian Late Bronze I Context,” Opuscula Atheniensia 9 (1969), pp. 127–150.