3445
Editor
Pernicka, Ernst; Wagner, Günter A.
Title Of Article Chaper
Neutron activation analysis and the origin of some Mycenaean IIIC:1 and Philistine bichrome ware pottery from the eastern Mediterranean during the 12-11th century B.C.
Title Of Journal Book
Archaeometry '90
Pages
405-412
Publisher
Birkhäuser Verlag; Birkhauser Boston, Inc.
Publisher City
Therwil; Cambridge
ISBN
3764325224 (Basel);0817625224 (Boston)
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph : Proceedings
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
International Symposium on Archaeometry (27th : 1990 : Heidelberg, Germany)
Meeting City
Heidelberg
Meeting Country
Germany
Abstract
A provenance study has started on more than 600 odd samples of Mycenaean IIIC:1, Philistine Bichrome, and red-and-black ware pottery from 30 sites in the eastern Mediterranean. From the 15 samples discussed in this study, Mycenaean IIIC:1 pottery from Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, and Philistine Bichrome Ware are distinguishable in chemical composition by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). The reults are interpreted in terms of trade and travel routes of Sea Peoples and Philistines of the 12th-11th centuries BC. In the present case, the MYC IIIC:1b pottery originated in Mycenae, while Philistine Bichrome ware found at Tell en-Nasbeh was locally made at the latter.
Keywords
Mycenaean;Philistine;ceramics;Mediterranean;provenance; excavations; Greece;Kyrenia;Gezer ruins (Israel); instrumental neutron activation analysis; routes;Greece (Mycenae)
pub_id
3445
Meeting Date
19900000