Potters in Transition
Ceramic Traditions and Innovations in the Shephelah at the Dawn of the Iron Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21486067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Kleiman (0000-0002-6841-8281, Lehrstuhl für Altes Testament I , Eberhard Karls Universität , Liebermeisterstr. 14 , Tübingen Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-249 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Altorientalische Forschungen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0232-8461 • E-ISSN: 2196-6761 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/aofo-2021-0016 |
| OpenAlex | W3216783327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
For many years, the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition in the southern Levant has been the subject of intense debates concerning chronological matters and cultural developments. Ceramic studies were often the focal point of the discussion, but they usually concentrated on the appearance of Aegean-style pottery in the southern Coastal Plain and the nearby Shephelah, while largely disregarding the indigenous pottery tradition. In this paper, I study the processes of continuity and change in ceramic shape morphology and decoration techniques of three important tell-sites in the Shephelah: Lachish, ʿAzẹqȧ (Tel Azekah) and Ekron. It will be shown that marked innovations took place during the transition to the Iron I. These were most likely triggered by the appearance of foreign potters who produced local Aegean-style wares and seem to have influenced the traditions of the indigenous ceramic workshops. Such insights not only allow a fine-tuning of the relative chronology of the region at the end of the second millennium BCE, but also illuminate the transmission of professional knowledge and cultural traits through the ages
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Chronology · Geography · Indigenous · Iron Age · Pottery · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |