Provenience research on Mycenaean IIIC:1b and Philistine bichrome wares offers objective data regarding the origins of the Sea Peoples and their pattern of settlement in 12th-century BC Canaan. 44 ceramic specimens from the 1981 and 1982 excavations at Tel Miqne-Ekron were subjected to instrumental neutron activation analysis. The main interest of this study was Mycenaean IIIC: 1b wares found at Miqne. Iron Age I plain wares were analyzed because if they were made locally their composition could be a reference for other wares. It was deduced that all of the Mycenaean IIIC:1b pottery was made locally. Three of five pieces of Philistine ware from Miqne were locally made; the other two came from the Coastal Plain. Pottery of a foreign style, Mycenaean IIIC:1b, appearing at Miqne at the beginning of the Iron Age, was locally made. -- AATA