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Ceramics in Transition: Production and Exchange of Late Byzantine-Early Islamic Pottery in Southern Transjordan and the Negev (Paperback)
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Ceramics in Transition: Production and Exchange of Late Byzantine-Early Islamic Pottery in Southern Transjordan and the Negev (Paperback)
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Ceramics in Transition 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 reorganisation 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 categorised and subjected to geochemical and
micro-structural characterisation 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 inter-regional, 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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