Foreign ceramic tradition,local clays: the Handmade Burnished Ware of Tell Kazel (Syria) |
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Authors: | Marie-Claude Boileau Leila Badre Emmanuelle Capet Reinhard Jung Hans Mommsen |
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Affiliation: | 1. Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, 52 Souidias, Athens 10676, Greece;2. Museum of the American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236/9, Lebanon;3. UPR 76 du Centre national de recherche scientifique, Villejuif 94801, France;4. Universität Salzburg, Fachbereich Altertumswissenshaften, Residenzplatz 1/II, Salzburg 5010, Austria;5. Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen-und Kernphysik, Universität Bonn, Nussalle14-16, Bonn 53115, Germany |
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Abstract: | Late Bronze Age Handmade Burnished Ware (HMBW) from Tell Kazel was studied by thin-section petrography and neutron activation analysis in order to investigate its manufacturing technology and origin of production. Results show that the majority of the HMBW fabric groups point to a local area of production while a few petrographic loners might have been produced elsewhere in the Akkar Plain or imported. The manufacturing technique, in terms of clay paste recipe, forming and finishing techniques, is however new in the Tell Kazel pottery assemblage, hinting at the work of foreigners present at the site. The historical and archaeological contexts further suggest that these foreigners were some of the Sea Peoples and the stylistic and analytical data further reinforce the link between the northern Levant and the western Mediterranean. |
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Keywords: | Handmade Burnished Ware Syria Late Bronze Age Petrographic analysis Neutron activation analysis Technology Provenance Sea Peoples |
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