Distribution of period-sensitive ceramics from survey data (22 quadrants: 5 × 5 m) in the Elusa trash mounds. (Lower right) The P values of period to period differences of sherd occurrence from logistic regression analysis, showing a clear and significant peak in the early–middle Byzantine followed by a decline into the late Byzantine and continuing into the early Islamic period. (* = Hellenistic). (Image: Guy Bar-Oz et al / PNAS)
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