Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology - (Volume 16) - Sturt W. Manning
15. Mariners’ Cuisine? Cypriot Cook ware from the Late Bronze II Age from the Tell Abu Hawam Anchorage
Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology - (Volume 16) - Sturt W. Manning
Michal Artzy [+]
University of Haifa
Michal Artzy heads the Hatter Laboratory in the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa. At present she co-directs the excavations at Tel Akko and previously those at Tell Abu Hawam and Tel Nami. In addition to long involvement in coastal and underwater archaeology, she has worked extensively on ceramic provenience and trade in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Jóse M. Martín-García [+]
Pompeu Fabra University
José Maria Martín-García has recently finished a PhD focused on the history and archaeology of the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean exploring how trade and geography shaped the economic system of the period. He has worked at excavations at several archaeological sites in Israel from the Chalcolithic to Roman period. He received an MA degree in the Dept. of Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa.
Description
Among the ceramics excavated at the Tell Abu-Hawam Late Bronze anchorage was an unusual group at first identified as part of the enigmatic ‘Barbarian Ware’ family. Eventually it became clear that it is a member of the Cypriot cooking ware tradition. While the Eastern Mediterranean coastal cooking wares tend to be of the Canaanite tradition, those of the Cypriot tradition were also a substantial group of ceramics in the Domestic Quarter at Ugarit/Ras Shamra. The ware is identified, discussed and compared to materials observed at other coastal Eastern Mediterranean sites and Cyprus.