Haaretz reports on a new study on division of labor at Early Bronze Age Tell es-Safi/Gath: fingerprints indicate pottery-making was mostly a male occupation. https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-making-bowls-in-biblical-gath-was-man-s-work-fingerprints-indicate-1.8786719">https://www.haaretz.com/archaeolo...

Here& #39;s the academic article, published 4 days ago in Plos One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231046">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...

As @ymrowan and @cwjones89 have pointed out -- and as is linked in the Haaretz piece -- a 2015 article by Akiva Sanders on Tell Leilan ceramics showed that making pottery became male-dominated only with the rise of urbanism.
https://leilan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publications/article-specific/sanders_2015_archaeological_science.pdf">https://leilan.yale.edu/sites/def...

Another point:
The article has a photo of the now (in)famous "Goliath sherd" with the caption "A sherd featuring a name like Goliath".

Note that the sherd has *two* words, apparently names, and each shares just 2 of 4 consonants w/"Goliath"
It seems this silly claim won& #39;t die.

The excavator, who originated the claim of similarity, then co-authored an article on the sherd which undermined that claim.
See this thread and the linked article for more: https://twitter.com/MichaelDPress/status/1052548005499416576">https://twitter.com/MichaelDP...