Tell es-Safi/Gath

3500 BCE - 2000 BCE

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Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Early Bronze Age

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A highly calcareous rendzina-type clay rich in microfossils, tempered with various materials: as grog, limestone and calcite. Low quantities of silty angular quartz. Provenance possiblt from the southern shephelah near Safi but could come from other location in the southern Levant.

Israel-Palestinian Authority/Galilee, Jezreel Valley, Central Highlands, Shephelah/calcareous/foraminiferous/rendzina soil