Trends of innovation in the Levantine storage jars and pithoi (13th-11th centuries BC)

Abstract

This paper offers a brief discussion of the main trends of innovation in the typology and function of storage jars (amphorae) and pithoi, during the Late Bronze II-Iron I transition (13th-11th centuries BC), providing further insight into trade networks, cultural exchange, food storage strategies, and lastly into how Levantine societies responded to the crisis of the Late Bronze Age