The southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age IV: the petrographic perspective.

The result of petrographic analyses of pottery assemblages from Early Bronze Age IV sites in southern Israel are presented. The writer discusses the lithological and technological properties of each group of findings in detail. He discusses pottery production sites, suggesting that the ceramic assemblages of the central Negev sites indicate that most of the vessels were made in Transjordan or Judaea and imported. He discusses the Har Yeruham site, which was the only place where evidence for local production of pottery in the central Negev was discovered. He goes on to look at specific groups in detail.