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DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Johnston.

This poster reports the results of a systematic examination of composition for 188 ceramic samples from the Bay of Cádiz (Spain), and discusses the socio-economic ramifications of the findings. Petrographic, NAA, and portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) analysis focused on 166 Phoenician and Iberian sherds dating to c. 800-550 BCE. An additional 12 geological and ceramic samples were included as controls for the provenance determination. The findings reveal unexpected relationships between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Van Horn. Adi Eliyahu. Naama Yahalom-Mack. A. E. Killebrew.

Recent excavations (2010 – 2016) at the Mediterranean port city of Tel Akko, directed by A.E. Killebrew and M. Artzy, have uncovered abnormally large quantities of iron slag and remnants of iron working spanning the 6th – 4th centuries BCE. This mid-first millennium smithy, which smelted iron on an industrial scale, is the only known iron working facility in the Levant dating to the Persian period, providing an unparalleled opportunity to explore iron production at a Phoenician maritime center....