Did the potter's wheel go out of use in Late Bronze Age Palestine?

From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: MAGRILL, PAMELA; MIDDLETON, ANDREW | Copyright information

Introduction

Throughout the Middle Bronze Age, wheel-thrown pottery(1) was widely produced in ancient Palestine but recently some researchers have suggested that this technique of pottery manufacture went out of use in the region during the Late Bronze Age (see for example Wood 1990: 18; Killebrew 1998: 399). This view is based mainly on the results of two major studies from sites in Jordan, Deir 'Alla (Franken 1969; 1992) and the Baq'ah Valley (Glanzman 1983; Glanzman &...

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