Israel/Carmel Mountains
Iron Age IIA, Iron Age IIB
Transport/Storage
The bulk fabric consists from mostly light grey to yellow (almost orange) color in plain polarized light (PPL). Furthermore, the fabric consists of poorly sorted fine sand to silt, with subangular to subrounded grains. In PPL view, It is highly calcareous, with low sphericity of some of the clearer calcareous minerals. Slit is comprising most of the fabric's matrix (approx. 50%). In PPL, the fabric's texture is mainly sandy loam to loamy sand, with sporadic "flashes" of clay loam to silty clay loam. Inclusions include limestone, quartz and calcite minerals. Foraminifera debris are also clearly evident in the fabric composition. Additionally, In several instances, blue to grey colored mineral is evident through examination.
Due to the decrease process of grain size as a byproduct of grain transverse in space, some of the calcareous grains are noted as subangular to subrounded, which alludes to the possibility of an available source in the vicinity of the site as part of the Carmel coastal plain. Nonetheless, the best equivalent to said petrographic info in the vicinity of Shiqmona can be traced to Tel Keisan.
Haifa Bay/Akko Coast /
Limestone, quartz, calcite minerals, Foraminifera debris
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