Israel/Shephelah/ferruginous clay/calcareous sand quartz silt
Israel/Shephelah
terra rossa
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This fabric has a reddish ferruginous non-calcareous matrix, with clay containing mainly limestone, nari fragments chalk and quartz silt. This clay is derived from Mediterranean terra rossa soil ; non-calcareous reddish clay rich with silty quartz (lower quantities of sand-sized quartz up to 0.5 mm appear), as well as limestone/nari fragments and clay pellets.
Characterized by a dark to opaque matrix under cross polarized light and reddish under regular polarized light, single-spaced particles and usually 15% voids (c:f:v 20μm is: 40–45:40–45:15). Main non-plastics are well sorted silty angular dust quartz (15–30% of slide area), usually up to 0.15 mm in size, limestone fragments, poorly sorted up to 1 mm in size (1–10% usually), as well as opaque minerals, clay pellets, and rare dolomite and feldspar. This fabric probably represents clay derived from shephelah terra rosa soils
This fabric has a reddish ferruginous non-calcareous matrix, with clay containing mainly limestone, nari fragments chalk and quartz silt. This clay is derived from Mediterranean terra rossa soil ; non-calcareous reddish clay rich with silty quartz (lower quantities of sand-sized quartz up to 0.5 mm appear), as well as limestone/nari fragments and clay pellets.
c. 1400 BCE - 37 BCE
Late Bronze Age III, Iron Age, Achaemenid Persian, Early Hellenistic, Middle Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic
8th - 6th centuries BCE
Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC
Ashkelon (Israel/Southern Coastal Plain)
Maresha/Marisa (Israel/Shephelah)
Sochoh (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel Azekah (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel Miqne/Ekron (Israel/Shephelah)
Tel Qiri (Israel/Jezreel Valley)
Tell Keisan (Israel/Northern Coastal Plain)
Tell Megiddo (Israel/Jezreel Valley)
Tell Qasile (Israel/Central Coastal Plain)
