{
  "version": "1.0",
  "gap": "Coverage Gap #2 — Neo-Assyrian / late eighth-century destruction horizons",
  "methodRule": "Exact Assyrian campaign years are treated as historical/stratigraphic anchors where independently justified. Radiocarbon on the Hallstatt plateau is a consistency check, not the source of year-level precision.",
  "anchors": [
    {
      "site": "Hazor",
      "siteId": "hazor",
      "sequenceId": "hazor-iron-ii-upper-city",
      "horizonId": "hazor-v-732-destruction",
      "year": -732,
      "campaign": "Tiglath-Pileser III",
      "status": "secure destruction; strong historical attribution",
      "datingClass": "historical + stratigraphic + archaeomagnetic cross-check"
    },
    {
      "site": "Tel Dan",
      "siteId": "tel-dan",
      "sequenceId": "tel-dan-iron-later",
      "horizonId": "tel-dan-assyrian-partial-destruction",
      "year": -732,
      "campaign": "Tiglath-Pileser III",
      "status": "partial destruction / Assyrian transition",
      "datingClass": "historical + stratigraphic"
    },
    {
      "site": "Samaria",
      "siteId": "samaria",
      "sequenceId": "samaria-acropolis",
      "horizonId": "samaria-assyrian-conquest-horizon",
      "year": -722,
      "campaign": "Shalmaneser V / Sargon II conquest horizon",
      "status": "conquest-era burn/takeover horizon",
      "datingClass": "historical + stratigraphic; exact campaign-year attribution requires caution"
    },
    {
      "site": "Shechem",
      "siteId": "shechem",
      "sequenceId": "shechem-general-strata",
      "horizonId": "shechem-vii-assyrian",
      "year": -724,
      "campaign": "late Northern Kingdom / Assyrian conquest horizon",
      "status": "major destruction; conventional Assyrian-era placement",
      "datingClass": "stratigraphic + historical correlation"
    },
    {
      "site": "Lachish",
      "siteId": "lachish",
      "sequenceId": "lachish-levels",
      "horizonId": "lachish-iii-701",
      "year": -701,
      "campaign": "Sennacherib",
      "status": "secure siege destruction",
      "datingClass": "historical + stratigraphic + iconographic/textual + archaeomagnetic cross-check"
    },
    {
      "site": "Tel Eton",
      "siteId": "tel-eton",
      "sequenceId": "tel-eton-area-a",
      "horizonId": "eton-a4-assyrian-destruction",
      "year": -701,
      "campaign": "Sennacherib-era Judah destruction horizon",
      "status": "massive late-eighth-century destruction; 701 attribution probable",
      "datingClass": "stratigraphic + archaeomagnetic/historical correlation"
    },
    {
      "site": "Arad",
      "siteId": "arad",
      "sequenceId": "arad-fortress",
      "horizonId": "arad-viii-destruction-701",
      "year": -701,
      "campaign": "Sennacherib-era horizon",
      "status": "major late-eighth-century fortress destruction",
      "datingClass": "stratigraphic + historical correlation"
    }
  ],
  "conclusion": "Gap #2 is best resolved with historically fixed and archaeomagnetically cross-checked destruction horizons, because the radiocarbon calibration plateau limits year-level discrimination in the eighth century BCE.",
  "antiOverclaim": "A destruction aligned to 732, 722 or 701 BCE is not assigned to an Assyrian campaign solely because its date overlaps; attribution must be independently supported.",
  "evidenceHierarchy": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "class": "historically fixed destruction + direct stratigraphy + archaeomagnetic field record",
      "examples": [
        "Lachish III — 701 BCE",
        "Hazor V — 732 BCE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "class": "historically plausible destruction + archaeomagnetic match to fixed anchor",
      "examples": [
        "Bethsaida / Kinnerot — 733/732 BCE",
        "Tel Beersheba / Tel Zayit XI / Tell Beit Mirsim — 701 BCE cluster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "class": "late-eighth-century destruction with probable Assyrian correlation",
      "examples": [
        "Tel Eton — probable late-eighth-century Assyrian destruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "class": "radiocarbon consistency control on Hallstatt plateau",
      "examples": [
        "short-lived eighth-century samples where available"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "quantitativePassStatus": "Archaeomagnetic anchor framework added; no specimen-level magnetic values fabricated where supplementary tables were not cleanly recovered."
}