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      The provenance of Late Bronze Age Transport Amphorae found in Egypt

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          This study, which forms part of a larger project on Canaanite amphorae, illustrates the use of ceramic petrography in refining the visual classification of the fabrics of imported New Kingdom amphorae excavated from Memphis and Amarna in Egypt. Provenances for the Canaanite amphorae are suggested which contradict previous assumptions.

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            Quaternary Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Galilee Coastal Plain, Israel

            The Quaternary deposits in the Galilee coastal plain comprise alternating calcareous sandstone, red loam, dark clay, and uncemented sand. The calcareous sandstone in the lower part of the sequence represents a Pliocene to early Pleistocene marine transgression, and is covered unconformably by the late Quaternary sequence. The base of this sequence has an estimated age of ∼500,000 yr. It is covered unconformably by marine calcareous sandstone in the west, which represents the global high sea-level stand of isotope stage 7.1, and is known as one of the “Tyrrhenian” events in the Mediterranean area. The overlying members represent the low sea-level stand of stage 6, the first a red paleosol indicating a relatively wet phase and the second an eolianite unit representing a drier phase. The eolianite forms longitudinal, subparallel ridges that formed contemporaneously. The overlying marine sandstone, which contains one of the diagnostic fossils of the “Tyrrhenian” events, the gastropod Strombus bubonius LMK, accumulated during the global high stand of stage 5.5. The last glacial period left no sedimentary record. The Holocene is represented by a marine clay unit that is covered by sand. The present study establishes a complete and detailed chronostratigraphic sequence for an eastern Mediterranean beach, which contains the gastropod S. bubonius LMK. S. bubonius on the Galilee coast is attributed to stage 5.5 and therefore, establishes an east–west Mediterranean correlation, which can be used for linking Mediterranean events to paleo-sea levels and global climate changes.
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              The Levantine Countries: The Geology of Syria and Lebanon (Maritime Regions)

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                Journal
                Internet Archaeology
                IA
                Council for British Archaeology
                13635387
                2000
                2000
                :
                : 9
                Article
                10.11141/ia.9.6
                7f0314e5-4399-49ff-97ae-70abe2ee8896
                © 2000

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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                Pre-history,Early modern history,Archaeology,Anthropology,Ancient history,History
                Pre-history, Early modern history, Archaeology, Anthropology, Ancient history, History

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