Abstract
The wider implications of change in the ceramic tradition in Palestine over the last five hundred years are considered. During this period, the ceramics changed from the refined glazed ware common in the Mamluk period to crude hand-made wares. This study is based on the ceramics recovered from Ticinnik, during the 1985–1987 excavation. The first part of the paper includes a discussion of the aims, logic and problems related to the ceramics of the late Islamic periods. The second half includes a catalogue of 81 forms found in strata dating from the Ottoman period to the present.