Israel/Carmel Mountains
Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk
Dining/Drinking/Serving
The fabric is a silty and slightly optically active rendzina, single-spaced with ~15% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 15% rounded foraminifera (30-120 μm), 20% sub-angular to rounded chalk/calcareous concretions (50-800 μm), 10% sub-rounded to rounded shale/clay pellets (40-300 μm), 5% sub-angular to rounded quartz (40-180 μm); some: sub-angular limestone (50-200 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded opaque minerals; rare: sub-angular mica (50-150 μm).
Northern Israel /
Foraminifera, chalk/calcareous concretions, shale/clay pellets, quartz
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Local group 3a (Gabrieli et al 2014)
Rendzina/grumusol
11th c. CE - 20th c. CE
Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman