REGIONAL EFFECT OF RIVER SILTING ON MARITIME TRADE IN THE LATE BRONZE/IRON AGES: THE HAIFA/AKKO BAY AS AN EXAMPLE
Résumé
The gradual silting of the Qishon River on the Haifa/Akko Bay in the 14th-12th centuries BCE affected the maritime trade. Analysis of the geomorphological changes – at the scale of the Bay and at the Qishon mouth – concurrent with the imported ceramic from the ‚The lands of the Sea,‘ Greece, Cyprus, the Levantine coast and Western Anatolia found at Tell abu Hawam and Akko, point to a transformation in the nature of the imported ceramics of the period.
Both sites show a similar record of imported ceramics during the earlier years of the Late Bronze IIb period, namely the 14th and first part of the 13th centuries BCE. Following the silting of the Qishon river, an increase in habitation and imports, albeit slightly varied, on the tops of ramparts of Tel Akko where the backdrop of the coast and the Na‘aman River allowed for the continuation of the maritime trade into the later part of the 13th and early 12th centuries BCE.
Domaines
Archéologie et Préhistoire
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