Site details

Tel Mikhal

PK	C6495
TITLE	Tel Mikhal
WGS84	32.160038° N, 34.797776° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	32.160038, 34.797776
LON/LAT	34.797776, 32.160038

DMS

32° 9' 36.1368" N

34° 47' 51.9936" E

W3W	downturn, debating, opposing
UTM	36 S, 669526, 3559591
EGSA87	1520605, 3609455

Elevation m	14
Elevation feet	45.9
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [1999], 144    ' Minoan and Mycenaean pottery from the first part of the Late Bronze Age has been reported from twenty sites in the Levant, ... ' This includes Tel Mikhal.
2.    Pottery.   Herzog et al. [1978], 47    ' ... an ash layer which contained Late Bronze Age sherds, including fragments of bichrome ware and Cypriote "milk bowls."'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [1999]: 522, 'EARLIEST: LH/LMI'

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Herzog et al. [1978]: 47, ' ... Late Bronze Age sherds, ... '

NOTES

1. There is a good site map in Herzog et al. [1978] 44.

2. For additional reading: Herzog, Z., G. Rapp, O. Negbi: Excavations at Tell Michal, Israel, Minneapolis. 1978.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Herzog et al. [1978]: Herzog, Ze'ev with Shmuel Moshkowitz, Ora Negbi, Anson F. Rainey. ‘Tel Michal; A Coastal Site in the Sharon Plain’, Expedition (Summer 1978) 44 - 49. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1978., '', pg. 47. Online here.

2. van Wijngaarden [1999]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery outside Greece; Contexts of LHI - LHIIIB finds in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy. Amsterdam. 1999., ''Differentiation within the repertoire of Mycenaean pottery'', pg. 144. Online here.