Yellin, J. and Gunneweg, J. 1985, The Provenience of Pottery from Tel Qasile, in Tel Qasile II (A. Mazar, ed), Qedem Series 20, Jerusalem, 111-118 The many cult vessels found in the tempels of Philistine Qasile whose ancient name is unknown. Since Qasile is not considered to be part of Pileshet (the Land of the Philistines), the vessels were considered interesting enough to start a provenience study on their origin. The samples for a total of 69 specimens of pottery, were subjected to instrumental neutron activation analysis in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Unit of Archaeometry. Most of the Philistine pottery was of a local manufacture, whereas a minority was imported from Pileshet (the Land of the Philistines). The outcome of this study is of more than local interest. One of the points has to do with the settlement and the relations of the Philistines (and perhaps other Sea Peoples) with other peoples who inhabited Canaan in the 12th-10th centuries B.C.E. Other important secondary benefits for having reliable provenance assignment are, for example, to probe whether it is possible, to reclassify pottery not to style but according to chemical provenance; and by so doing, ambiguities in chronological assignements could be removed. Incense burner stand Comments? Please write: Jan Gunneweg To return, click Archaeometry abstracts of our work or click "BACK" or click the Homepage . Jan Gunneweg Ph.D., The Hebrew University, revised November 2005