Schmit, A. and Badreshany, K. and Tachatou, E. and Sader, H. (2018) 'Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland : a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak.', Levant., 50 (1). pp. 52-90.
Abstract
This paper details the results of a large-scale multi-disciplinary analysis of Iron Age pottery from a settlement in the core of the Phoenician homeland. The research presented is centred upon a large corpus of Phoenician carinated-shoulder amphorae (CSA) from the later Iron Age II and Persian period contexts at the coastal site of Tell el-Burak. Traditional typological investigations are combined with a focused archaeometric approach including a new quantitative method for the morphometric analysis of amphorae, thin-section petrography, geochemistry and organic residue analyses, aimed at gaining a more detailed understanding of the organization of the Phoenician economy. Despite gradual, but marked typological changes, very little change in the fabrics of these amphorae was noted over the 400-year Iron Age occupation of the site. The research, thus, demonstrates that the production of Iron Age amphorae from Tell el-Burak was highly organized, and was undertaken by long-lived, sustained and centralized modes. The establishment of Tell el-Burak and this new pottery industry coincides with the proliferation of the world’s first great imperial powers, the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian and Persian empires; the outcomes of this research provide new insights into socio-economic strategies adopted in the Phoenician homeland during this pivotal time.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (7613Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2018.1547004 |
Publisher statement: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Levant on 24 January 2019 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00758914.2018.1547004 |
Date accepted: | 11 September 2018 |
Date deposited: | 17 September 2018 |
Date of first online publication: | 24 January 2019 |
Date first made open access: | 24 July 2020 |
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