Abstract
Three excavation areas were opened, exposing terraces, enclosure walls, dams, stone-clearance heaps, cairns, watchman’s booths, roads, winepresses, fence walls, caves or rock shelters, limekilns, cup marks and cisterns. The excavation recovered very little pottery. The site probably began to be intensively farmed in the Iron Age and Persian period. It reached its peak in the Late Hellenistic–Early Roman periods, when almost all the features in the compound were in use. A limited activity in the compound took place during the Byzantine period, continuing into the Early Islamic period.
Keywords
landscape archaeology, industry, carbon 14, charcoal
Recommended Citation
Ad, Uzi
(2016)
"The Agricultural Landscape of the ‘Zippor Compound’ in Modi‘in (Hebrew, pp. 25*–60*; English summary, pp. 123–124),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 84, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1723
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol84/iss1/8
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