This paper deals with the chronology of Palestine during Iron Age II, i. e., the tenth and ninth centuries B. C. The author evaluates the development of the conception of Solomonic archaeology from the 1920s to the present at Lachish, Ashdod, and Tel ʿIraʾ, and concludes that this conception is based primarily on intuitive guesses and untested assumptions. He calls for revisions in the stratigraphic sequences at sites like Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. The author presents a lower chronology for Iron Age II, based largely on the data from Samaria.