Israel/Jezreel Valley
Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk
Household/Utility
The fabric is a dark, reddish, single-spaced marl with ~20% voids. Then non-plastic inclusions are: 10% sub-rounded to angular calcareous concretions (40-550 μm), 10% angular to sub-rounded quartz (20-180 μm), 7% sub-angular to sub-rounded shale (80-800 μm); some: elongated feldspar (20-70 μm), sub-angular to sub-rounded siltstone (60-450 μm), sub-angular to elongated mica (30-80 μm), sub-rounded opaque minerals (30-100 μm), angular chert (60-250 μm).
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Calcareous concretions, quartz, shale
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Local group 9 (Gabrieli et al 2014)
Marl
11th c. CE - 20th c. CE
Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman