Rishon Le-Ẓiyyon, Winepress Park: Geomorphology and Sedimentology

Authors

Joel Roskin, Department of Environment, Planning and Sustainability, Bar-Ilan University, and Israel Antiquities Authority Analytical LaboratoryFollow
Yotam Asscher, Department of Culture Heritage, School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa, Israel Antiquities Authority Analytical Laboratory and Artifact Treatment and Laboratories DepartmentFollow

Abstract

An extensive brown sandy double-unit sediment, draping large parts of the archaeological remains at the Winepress Park in Rishon Le-Ẓiyyon, is suggested to be associated with the previously reported, undated ʻEn Ha-Qore clay. Based on relative age port-OSL profiling, the depositional mechanism of this unit and the overlying sand is suggested to be related to late Holocene, dune-dammed winter ponds. These aeolian-fluvial dune-damming processes may have been partly triggered by intensive Byzantine human activity that may have led to sand mobilization.

Keywords

coastal dunes, sand, portable-OSL, Holocene, Aeolian-fluvial processes, geoarchaeology

Recommended Citation

Roskin, Joel and Asscher, Yotam (2025) "Rishon Le-Ẓiyyon, Winepress Park: Geomorphology and Sedimentology," Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel: Vol. 1, Article 38.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/3078-8528.1037
Available at: https://publications.iaa.org.il/qadum/vol1/iss1/38