Israel/Galilee
Iron Age
Cooking/Food production
Four Iron Age sherds represent three petrographic subgroups. All samples contain ooliths. Ooliths appear in soils that develop on top of lower Cretaceous formations, which occur in the immediate vicinity of the site, near Kfar Hananya, on the Rammim ridge north of Safed, and in the southern Hula near the Chorazin Plateau.
Iron Age Group 3 (sample 24): This group has a ferruginous matrix with some silty quartz but with only small quantities of silty basaltic minerals, larger calcite crystals (0.4–1.0 mm) comprising about 12%
of the sherd’s volume, and one basalt grain. The firing temperature was around 650–675 ºC.
c. 1800 - 500 BCE
Middle Bronze Age II, Middle Bronze Age III, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age
