Petrographic Characteristics of several key Southern Levantine Ceramic Materials
Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims to characterise and provenance a number of common ceramic types from the Southern Levantine region. The aim of this paper is to present several of the common petrographic groups that were defined in the course of four decades of mineralogical examinations of Palestinian pottery assemblages. An understanding of these fabrics is particularly important, in view of the interest in early trade in ceramics in the Levantine region. In the Levantine ceramic repertoire, two classes of clay (in the ceramological sense of the term) were constantly in use: clays derived from geological clay formations, and clay derived from soils and loams. In the discussion, the key petrographic groups will be divided according to these two principal criteria.
Source: Internet Archaeology
DOI: 10.11141/ia.9.5
Author: Y. Goren
Institution: Tel Aviv University
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2327367585