Lebanon/Southern Coast
Iron Age IIB, Iron Age IIC,...
Transport/Storage
Samples belonging to Fabric 1A (Schmitt et al 2019) generally contain roughly 25–30% non-plastic inclusions and voids. The samples are dominated (12–18%) by fine and medium sand-sized grains of quartz that are generally sub- to well-rounded and equant. A few elongate grains can also be observed. The quartz grains are sometimes polycrystalline and often exhibit an undulose extinction. Rounded pieces of medium sandsized grey micritic limestone also occur (5–9%), along with infrequent highly rounded fine sand-sized grains of calcite (1–3%). Large rounded coarse sandsized argillaceous bodies are found rarely (1–3%). These commonly contain silt-sized grains of quartz and are often surrounded by shrinkage voids. Their texture show...
Southern Coastal Lebanon /
Quartz grains, micritic limestone fragments
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Fabric 1A (Schmitt et al 2019)
Alluvial soils