'He Went Down to Joppa and Found a Ship Going to Tarshish' (Jonah 1:3): Landscape Reconstruction at Jaffa and a Potential Early Harbour. (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wachsmann, Shelley; Burke, Aaron A.; Dunn, Richard K.; Avnaim-Katav, Simona
• Is Part Of: International journal of nautical archaeology. Volume 51:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 267
• Page End: 303
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Israel -- geoarchaeology -- maritime archaeology -- harbours -- palaeogeography -- ports; Israel -- geoarqueología -- arqueología marítima -- puertos -- paleogeografía -- puertos; 以色列 -- 地质考古学 -- 海洋考古学 -- 港口 -- 古地理学 -- 码头; 以色列 -- 地質考古學 -- 海洋考古學 -- 港口 -- 古地理學 -- 碼頭; إسرائیل -- عِلم الآثار الجیولوجیة -- عِلم الآثار البحریة -- المَوانئ -- الجُغرافیا القدیمة -- مَراسٍ; Underwater archaeology -- Periodicals; 930.102804
• DOI: 10.1080/10572414.2022.2148819
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1057-2414

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Recent excavations of Tel Yafo (Jaffa), Israel, underscore its role as an historically important Mediterranean port. In 2014, the Ioppa Maritima Project conducted a geological investigation determining that from ca. 5000–2000 years BP, a small estuarine system existed east and north of Tel Yafo that could have served as a harbour. The marine re-entrant formed through sea-level rise and flooding of a small valley, and the stream mouth was probably also partially blocked by coastal sands. Sediment aggradation, wetland development, and anthropogenic activity largely filled the embayment leaving only a depression east of Tel Yafo in the area of Bloomfield Stadium and Groningen Park.