Ceramic studies and petrographic analysis in Levantine archaeology, the limitations of current approaches

• Published in: Levant (London) Vol. 52; no. 1-2; pp. 5 - 14
• Main Authors: Badreshany, Kamal, Philip, Graham
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 03.05.2020
• Subjects: ceramics; geochemical fingerprinting of ceramics; large-scale data integration; northern and central Levant; petrography

By way of an introduction to this volume, we look to provide a brief review of recent approaches to ceramic studies in Levantine archaeology, and to the way that the results of laboratory-based investigations have been integrated within these. As we are interested in using ceramic data to address qu...