By Bryant G. Wood
This basic learn bargains a reconstruction of the social international within which pottery was once synthetic, disbursed and utilized in historical Palestine. half I concludes that ceramic wares within the Bronze and Iron a long time have been heavily produced for advertisement sale via small workshops, most likely kin owned and operated. The technological point used to be excessive, with potters' wheels and everlasting kilns getting used. half II argues that ceramic types have been quickly unfold all through Palestine, basically via itinerant retailers who offered traditional family wares over nice distances.
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A pottery workshop in modern-day Palestine has been described by M. Dothan (1971:90-92). It consisted of a courtyard containing two kilns and a basin for preparing the clay, and a number of adjacent rooms for turning, drying, and storing the vessels (1971:91). The shop was operated by two male potters who produced six types of vessels, each type being produced in two or three sizes (store jars, plates, drums, children's saving boxes, jugs, and bowls). Xanthoudides observed a group of potters from Thrapsanos, Crete, who fabricated vessels very similar to those of antiquity (1927:120).
There are between 40 and 70 shops, all located in the homes of their owners (Vossen 1984:346, 348). The smallest shop, which produces a little under 100,000 vessels in a season, has one kiln and two wheels and employs four men. The largest shop, producing some 300,000 vessels per season, has three kilns and 12 wheels and employs 20 men. Pottery making is a full-time occupation for the potters of Bail^n. 1 Foster has investigated the pottery industry of Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, a town of 1200 people (in 1945) specializing in the production of utilitarian ceramic wares.
2, 3). The Str. IVb kiln was c. 9 m and was constructed of one course of stones with a clay lining. Fired bricks found in the ruins may have 1. Muhly earlier pointed out that the Beth Shemesh 'furnaces' were in fact pottery kilns (1982:53). 32 The Sociology of Pottery come from the superstructure (Grant 1934:20, 42, pis. XII. 1, XIII; Grant and Wright 1939:39, pi. 2). The Str. Ill kiln, also constructed of field stones, was c. 8 m and slightly wider in the front than in the back. So as to facilitate temperature equalization throughout the kiln, the floors of both kilns were lower in the front than in the back (Grant 1934:52; Grant and Wright 1939:56, pi.