Negevite pottery is the name given to a hand-made ware found in Iron Age sites of the Negev

Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region, refer to the desert as al-Naqab. The origin of the word Neghebh is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'...

 desert and southern Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

. It was produced from coarse clay containing straw and other organic materials. It was discovered by C. Leonard Woolley

Leonard Woolley

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia...

 and T.E. Lawrence in the northeastern Sinai, found again by Nelson Glueck

Nelson Glueck

Nelson Glueck was an American rabbi, academic and archaeologist. Dr Glueck served as president of Hebrew Union College from 1947 until his death, and his pioneering work in biblical archaeology resulted in the discovery of 1,500 ancient sites....

 in Tell el-Kheleifeh (who misunderstood the wares as crucibles for the Solomonic metallurgical activities there), and at last identified by Y. Aharoni as the wares manufactured and used by the people of the desert. Negevite wares show some similarities with Midianite pottery

Midianite pottery

Midianite pottery, also known as “Qurayya ware” is a ware type found in the Hejaz , southern and central Jordan, southern Israel and the Sinai, generally dated to the 13th-12th centuries BCE, although later dates are also possible...

 bowls (in form) and with Edomite pottery

Edomite pottery

Edomite pottery is the name given to several ware types found in archaeological sites in southern Jordan and the Negev dated to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.It is attributed to the Biblical people of the Edomites....

(in decoration).