entity · people_pastoral_copper_networks
Pastoral and copper-production networks of the Arabah
Also known as: Arabah mobile-industrial communities
Mobile, semi-mobile, and settled communities participating in mining, smelting, transport, herding, and exchange, without secure uniform ethnonym.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · dates
Archaeomagnetic Dating of Pyrotechnological Contexts: A Case Study for Copper Smelting Sites in the Central Timna Valley — Ian Peters, Lisa Tauxe, Erez Ben-Yosef (2018)Constrains production episodes.
Locator: archaeomagnetic contexts - informs · provides archaeological observation
A New Chronological Framework for Iron Age Copper Production at Timna (Israel) — Erez Ben-Yosef, Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, and collaborators (2010)Supports organized industrial activity.
Locator: production chronology - informs · contextualizes
Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go? — David C. Hopkins (1993)Supports caution about mobile groups.
Locator: pastoral visibility discussion
Research description
Mobile, semi-mobile, and settled communities participating in mining, smelting, transport, herding, and exchange, without secure uniform ethnonym. The record preserves the distinction between source label, archaeological pattern, political formation, and later identity.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological proxy, not ethnicity
A material or biological pattern that may inform social history but is not a direct ethnic label.
Why does this record have this property?
The working label is inferred from production and mobility evidence, not an ancient ethnonym.
- A New Chronological Framework for Iron Age Copper Production at Timna (Israel)
provides archaeological observation · industrial sequence
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
A New Chronological Framework for Iron Age Copper Production at Timna (Israel) — Erez Ben-Yosef, Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, and collaborators (2010)Supports organized industrial activity.
Locator: production chronology - informs · dates
Archaeomagnetic Dating of Pyrotechnological Contexts: A Case Study for Copper Smelting Sites in the Central Timna Valley — Ian Peters, Lisa Tauxe, Erez Ben-Yosef (2018)Constrains production episodes.
Locator: archaeomagnetic contexts - informs · contextualizes
Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go? — David C. Hopkins (1993)Supports caution about mobile groups.
Locator: pastoral visibility discussion
Referenced records
- Negev and Arabah · entity