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Decorated Philistine Pottery: An archaeological and archaeometric study
David Ben-Shlomo
This study concentrates on Philistine decorated pottery, its production centres and trade patterns. These issues are examined by both archaeological and archaeometric approaches. Over recent years, a considerable amount of data has been accumulated on Philistine sites, especially from the excavations at Tel Miqne-Ekron, and the new excavations at Ashkelon and Tell es-Safi. Thus, although a vast literature already exists on the Philistines, their material culture and related issues, there has been very little study that systematically combines all this data. This work examines the Iron Age Philistine material culture in general and the Philistine pottery in particular, from a holistic approach. The Philistine phenomenon is defined and described in Part 1 from its various aspects: the historical background, the archaeological evidence and its social and ethnic aspects. Part 2 describes and discusses the updated archaeological evidence of pottery production and workshops in the southern Levant during the end of the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Ethnographic research is utilized to describe the pottery production sequence, technological aspects and modes of production and distribution of pottery. As this work is a provenance study of a geographically andgeologically limited area a methodological discussion was called for presented in Part 3. In Part 4 the archaeometric results are presented. Part 5 combines the archaeological and archaeometric results and evaluates them from a broader cultural, technological and historical perspectives.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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List of figures
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part 1 Iron Age Philistia and the Philistine Pottery Wares
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Part 2 Technological Aspects of Iron Age Pottery Production
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Part 3 Archaeometric Methods and the Methodology of Provenance Studies of Ceramics
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Part 4 The Archaeometric Results and their Interpretation
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Part 5 Philistine Pottery Production and the Iron I/Iron IIA Transition: Present Schemes and Suggestions for Future Research
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Conclusions
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Appendix A: Precision and accuracy of the Bristol ICP laboratory
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Appendix B: Comparison of INAA and ICP results
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Appendix C: List of samples taken and the archaeological data
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Appendix D: Chemical compositions of samples according to ICPMS/ICP-AES
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Appendix E: Petrographic descriptions of thin sections of the samples
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Abbreviations
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References
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Published: 2006
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407329987 (ebook)
- 9781841719733 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1541