Clay derived from brown soils or grumusol, rich with calcareous fragments, silty quartz. It is characterized by a dark, optically inactive matrix with silty angular quartz grains well- to moderately sorted. Most quarttz is angular and silt-sized, while sand-sized rounded quartz (up to 0.5 mm) appears in smaller quantities. Limestone, chalk, nari and other calcareous inclusions are also common, both silt and sand-sized. The clay is usually derived from alluvial and fluvial soils in the shephelah.
dark optically inactive matrix with silty angular quartz grains with some sand-sized rounded quartz. Limestone, chalk, nari and other calcareous inclusions are common in silt and sand size. This clay is probably derived from dark brown soil, possibly with some mixture of grumusol type of soil
Clay derived from brown soils or grumusol, rich with calcareous fragments, silty quartz. It is characterized by a dark, optically inactive matrix with silty angular quartz grains well- to moderately sorted. Most quarttz is angular and silt-sized, while sand-sized rounded quartz (up to 0.5 mm) appears in smaller quantities. Limestone, chalk, nari and other calcareous inclusions are also common, both silt and sand-sized. The clay is usually derived from alluvial and fluvial soils in the...
5th-2nd BCE
Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic
3400 BCE - 2200 BCE
Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age I, Early Bronze Age III
Khirbet Qeiyafa (Israel/Shephelah)
Khirbet er-Rasm (Israel/Shephelah)
Sochoh (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel 'Eton (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel Azekah (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel Halif/Lahav, Halif Terrace, Site 101 (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel Miqne/Ekron (Israel/Shephelah)
Tell Qasile (Israel/Central Coastal Plain)
