Was the Qumran settlement a mere pottery production center? What instrumental neutron activation revealed

Jan Gunneweg, Marta Balla

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Abstract

New data will be reported regarding the possibility that the flood deposits accumulated in three of the cisterns at Qumran could have been used to produce pottery, i.e. local Qumran pottery. A pottery waster, found in the ashes east of the Qumran kiln provided the ultimate chemical fingerprint of locally made pottery for which we were searching since 1998. The local chemical fingerprint of Qumran will also serve to distinguish between pots of Qumran and those from Engedi, Masada as well as those that are an integral part of the many (+/- 100) animal bone piles that have been found on Qumran's southern plateau.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHolistic Qumran
Subtitle of host publicationTrans-Disciplinary Research of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
EditorsAnnemie Adriaens, Jan Gunneweg, Joris Dik
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Pages39-61
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)9789004181526
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

NameStudies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Volume87
ISSN (Print)0169-9962

Keywords

  • Animal bone heaps
  • Dead sea scrolls
  • Marl/clay
  • Neutron activation
  • Pottery provenance
  • Qumran

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