Endnote 8 – The Rise and Fall of the Dead Sea

Rapid canyon downcutting also occurred in surface channels along the eastern Dead Sea shore such as Wadi Kerak, causing partial erosion of the Early Bronze Age city of edh-. See Jack Donahue, “Hydrologic and Topographic Change During and After Early Bronze Occupation at Baµb edh-Dhraµ and Numeria,” Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, ed. Adnan Hadidi, (Amman: Department of Antiquities, 1985), pp. 131–140. Thus, a falling Dead Sea level, rather than a tectonic event, could have caused the incision on both sides of the lake.