Earliest ceramics in Israel (IMAGE)

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Earliest ceramics in Israel

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A Yarmukian juglet, the earliest pottery in Israel (a specimen found in a cave in Samaria); It was manufactured from local redeposited terra rossa clay, the same material that would have accumulated around settlements following the erosion of nearby hills.

 

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Credit: Boaz Zissu et al., 2014

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