A Note on the Earliest Appearance of the Hand-Made, Straight-Sided Cooking Pot in the Southern Levant

Yitzhak Paz, Naama Walzer

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Abstract

The straight-sided, flat-based, hand-made cooking pot has long been considered one of the hallmark vessels of the early south Levantine Middle Bronze Age(MB), dated to the beginning of the second millennium BCE. A growing body of evidence, however, now points to an earlier appearance of this vessel type in the Intermediate Bronze Age (IB) (mid-late third millennium BCE). This article outlines the phenomenon, places its geographic origin along the eastern side of the Jordan Valley and portrays, in general terms, its cultural implications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInterdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages443-451
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameInterdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Volume2023
ISSN (Print)1568-2722

Keywords

  • Ceramic typology
  • Cooking ware
  • Intermediate Bronze Age
  • Jordan Valley
  • Middle Bronze Age
  • Spatial distribution
  • Straight-sided cooking pot

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Archaeology
  • Archaeology

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