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A New Chronological Framework for Iron Age Copper Production at Timna (Israel)
Erez Ben-Yosef, Thomas E. Levy, Mohammad Najjar, and collaborators · 2010
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Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article and radiocarbon study
- Publication
- Antiquity, vol. 84, no. 325, 724-746
Records informed by this source
- claim Large-scale Iron Age copper production in the Arabah does not by itself prove control by an early Edomite kingdom.Evidence confidence: very highinforms · dates · production chronology
Establishes early industry.
- causal hypothesis Polycentric Arabah copper-production modelEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · production chronology
Direct test.
- relationship Pastoral and copper-production networks of the Arabah — not automatically controlled by — EdomEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · production chronology
Provides temporal test.
- date assertion Iron Age intensification and reorganization of Arabah copper production — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · radiocarbon production sequence
Constrains timing.
- event Iron Age intensification and reorganization of Arabah copper productionEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · radiocarbon production sequence
Constrains timing.
- date assertion Pastoral and copper-production networks of the Arabah — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · production chronology
Supports organized industrial activity.
- entity Pastoral and copper-production networks of the ArabahEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · production chronology
Supports organized industrial activity.
- property assignment Pastoral and copper-production networks of the Arabah — has property — Archaeological proxy, not ethnicityEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · industrial sequence
Supports assignment.