Glossary: How to Date a Cooking Pot

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Sir Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) first recognized that lowly potsherds could help pinpoint the date of the archaeological strata in which they were found. Building on Petrie’s insight, William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971) and his students defined the pottery features associated with the ancient Near East’s various chronological periods.

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Footnotes

Bryant G. Wood, “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho?” BAR 16:02; Piotr Bienkowski, “Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not the Late Bronze Age,” BAR 16:05; and Wood, “Dating Jericho’s Destruction—Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts,” BAR 16:05.

Adam Zertal, “Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail,” BAR 17:05.