Dendrinos is a moderately well-known guy by ancient near-eastern peeps and he's not regarded well. He doesn't really know what he's talking about and his paper

Dendrinos is a moderately well-known guy by ancient near-eastern peeps and he's not regarded well. He doesn't really know what he's talking about and his paper makes that pretty obvious. Here are some random issues I can quickly point out from a skim: 1. Doesn't understand how typological classification works 2. Kind of offhandedly acknowledges, but doesn't actually cite the PPNA plaster dating that Dietrich and Schmidt did 6 years prior, negating the entire fill argument. 3. Starts comparing things to Natufian and other levant material cultures. 4. Just randomly starts assuming his urban planning hypotheses, which are neither well-accepted in the field nor well-regarded by people who specialize in that stuff as it applies to the ancient near-east. All of this is fine because he's essentially retired and simply getting into internet fights to avoid boredom. Nothing wrong with that, but let's avoid bringing him up as an authority.