Typological Dating and Chronology
Goals for the Day
Stratigraphy and ceramic typology
Our Goal: identify pottery in strata
Step 1: pottery is cleaned
Step 2: pottery is sorted and labeled
Step 3: pottery is analyzed & drawn
Step 4: complete forms are studied
Step 5: comparison is made to other sites
Ceramic Typology (Late Bronze pottery)
Evolution of the Cooking Pot
Philistine Pottery
Form
Form Variant
Decoration
Ware
Manufacture
Case Study: Hazor and Ceramic Typology
Aharoni and Amiran’s Chronology
Comparison of different sites
Cooking pots: a clear distinction
Early Shallow Types
Late Shallow Types: Tell Beit Mirsim, Stratum A1
Late Shallow Type: Hazor Strata VIII and later
Deep Type: Tell Beit Mirsim
Comparing Strata: conclusions
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Other information: Lecture on pottery typology