Ceramics in transition : production and exchange of late Byzantine-early Islamic pottery in southern Transjordan and the Negev /
This book focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the late Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad and Abbasid periods, c. 6th-9th centuries CE in southern Transjordan and the Negev. These regions belonged to the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tert...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,
[2019]
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| Series: | Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Summary: | This book focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the late Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad and Abbasid periods, c. 6th-9th centuries CE in southern Transjordan and the Negev. These regions belonged to the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tertia, before Islamic administrative reorganization in the mid-7th century. Cooking ware and ceramic containers were investigated from five archaeological sites representing different socio-economic contexts, the Jabal Harun monastery, the village of Khirbet edh-Dharih, the port city of `Aqaba/Aila, the town of Elusa in the Negev and the suburban farmstead of Abu Matar. The ceramics were typo-chronologically categorized and subjected to geochemical and micro-structural characterization via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) to geochemically 'fingerprint' the sampled ceramics and to identify production clusters, manufacturing techniques, ceramic distribution patterns and material links between rural-urban communities as well as religious-secular communities. The ceramic data demonstrate economic wealth continuing into the early Islamic periods in the southern regions, ceramic exchange systems, specialized manufacture and interregional, long-distance ceramic transport. The potters who operated in the southern areas in the formative stages of the Islamic period reformulated their craft to follow new influences diffusing from the Islamic centres in the north. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 193 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-158). |
| ISBN: | 9781789692242 1789692245 |