The Rural Hinterland of the Jezreel Valley in the Late Bronze Age III and Iron Age I A Petrographic Perspective

Abstract

Most provenance studies carried out in the southern Levant are based on pottery uncovered in urban sites. Hinterland settlements are almost completely neglected as excavations and publications of countryside sites are relatively rare in the archaeology of the Bronze and the Iron Ages in this region. This article presents the result of a petrographic study of Late Bronze Age III and Iron Age I pottery assemblages at four rural sites from the Jezreel Valley.