TY - JOUR
T1 - Ceramics in the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
T2 - Evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Israel
AU - Biton, Rebecca
AU - Goren, Yuval
AU - Goring-Morris, A. Nigel
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - This paper summarises typological and technological research on a small assemblage of pottery containers recovered at Kfar HaHoresh (KHH), a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in the Southern Levant. The majority of the sherds belong to a distinguishable fabric, composed of local marl matrix tempered with vegetal material originating from herbivore manure. Based on the scarcity and properties of the sherds, we propose that the pottery containers at KHH were rare vessels possibly produced for personal use or for use by distinctive individuals for very limited purposes.
AB - This paper summarises typological and technological research on a small assemblage of pottery containers recovered at Kfar HaHoresh (KHH), a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in the Southern Levant. The majority of the sherds belong to a distinguishable fabric, composed of local marl matrix tempered with vegetal material originating from herbivore manure. Based on the scarcity and properties of the sherds, we propose that the pottery containers at KHH were rare vessels possibly produced for personal use or for use by distinctive individuals for very limited purposes.
KW - Ceramics
KW - Kfar HaHoresh
KW - Optical mineralogy (OM)
KW - Petrography
KW - Pottery
KW - Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886620625&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jas.2013.10.005
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AN - SCOPUS:84886620625
SN - 0305-4403
VL - 41
SP - 740
EP - 748
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science
ER -