Whenever I see a subject sitting on the margins, I try to create a thread for the lonely souls interested.
Here in the southwest US, pottery is a virtual industry, both modern artists, and archaelogical writings, display, dating, etc. Expert or curious, widely available, and inexpensive to learn about.
Palestine, not so easy. Basically, you're looking at https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Pottery-Holy-Land-Beginnings/dp/0813506344/ which is getting a bit long on tooth, location specific books (eg Qumran), or journal articles in need of organizing.
But if you'd like to get a very nice Logos taste, take a look at https://www.logos.com/product/9398/sociology-of-pottery-in-ancient-palestine-the-ceramic-industry-and-the-diffusion-of-ceramic-style-in-the-bronze-and-iron-ages
Quite interesting and surprising. He works with archaeological data where available, and then more modern data, for fill-in-the-blanks. Deals with the physicality of making pottery, plus how organized and distributed. Quite detailed.
Here's an interesting statement:
"It has been noted that ceramic morphology changes with time and this morphological variation allows the ceramic typologist to date pottery within a fairly narrow time range, usually 25–50 years. It has also been noted that morphological changes seem to occur simultaneously and at the same rate all across Palestine." That has a lot of implications ... the distribution part.
Bonus: Logos is cheaper than Amazon. Tagged too!
