A history of pottery and potters in ancient Jerusalem2005

"A History of Potters and Pottery in Ancient Jerusalem surveys four thousand years of pottery production and presents fresh, totally unexpected information, using technical and analytical methods. It provides a study of ancient pottery of Jerusalem from the earliest settlement to the medieval city and brings to light important aspects that cannot be discovered by the commonly accepted morphological pottery descriptions." "New insights include the discovery that third millennium B.C.E. pottery appears to have been produced by nomadic families, Middle Bronze Age ceramics were made by professional potters in the Wadi Refaim, the pottery market of the Iron Age II pottery cannot be closely dated and was still produced during the first centuries after the exile, and the new shapes were made by Greek immigrant potters." "This book also contains a chapter on the systematics of ceramic studies and numerous notes about the potters themselves."--Jacket.