Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)

Assaf Yasur-Landau; Marko Runjajic; Evgeny Shegol; Remi Rosen; Karsyn Johnson; Deborah Cvikel; Shirly Ben Dor Evian; David E. Friesem; Tzilla Eshel; Gunnar Lehmann; Cassandra Donnely; Artemis Georgiou; Harel Shochat; Meir Edrey; Dafna Langgut; Thomas E. Levy

doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.71

Iron Age ship cargoes from the harbour of Dor (Israel)

Assaf Yasur-Landau, Marko Runjajic, Evgeny Shegol, Remi Rosen, Karsyn Johnson, Deborah Cvikel, Shirly Ben Dor Evian, David E. Friesem, Tzilla Eshel, Gunnar Lehmann, Cassandra Donnely, Artemis Georgiou, Harel Shochat, Meir Edrey, Dafna Langgut, Thomas E. Levy

University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

Connectivity and trade dominate discussions of the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Ages, where artefacts travelled increasing distances by land and sea. Much of the evidence for the means through which such networks operated is necessarily indirect, but shipwrecks offer direct insights into the movement of goods. Here, the authors explore three Iron Age cargoes recently excavated at Tel Dor on the Carmel Coast, the first from this period found in the context of an Iron Age port city in Israel. Spanning the eleventh–seventh centuries BC, these cargoes illuminate cycles of expansion and contraction in Iron Age Mediterranean connectivity and integration.

Original language	American English
Journal	Antiquity
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.71
State	Accepted/In press - 1 Jan 2025

Keywords

Iron Age
Levant
Mediterranean trade
South-west Asia
port archaeology
underwater archaeology

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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