A collection of new studies dedicated to Professor Beno Rothenberg, focused on copper in antiquity in the Near East, the eastern Mediterranean, and the British Isles.
Contents
Contributors
“Preface,” Erez Ben-Yosef
SECTION I: TIMNA VALLEY
1. “Stratigraphy and Structure of the Timna Valley and Adjacent Ancient Mining Areas,” Michael Beyth, Amit Segev, and Hanan Ginat
2. “Beno Rothenberg and the Chronology of Copper Smeltig at Timna,” James D. Muhly
3. “The Central Timna Valley Project: Research Design and Preliminary Results,” Erez Ben-Yosef
4. “The Diet of Ancient Metal Workers: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Arabah Valley (Timna and Faynan),” Lidar Sapir-Hen, Omri Lernau, and Erez Ben-Yosef
5. “The Sinai-Arabah Copper Age Early Phase (Chalcolithic) Mine T Excavations,” Tim Shaw and Alexandra Drenka
6. “The Inscription of Ramessesmpere in Context,” Deborah Sweeney
7. “A Preliminary Archaeomagnetic Investigation of the Yotvata Fortress,” Ilana Peters, Lisa Tauxe, and Erez Ben-Yosef
8. “Who was the Deity Worshipped at the Tent-Sanctuary of Timna?,” Nissim Amzallag
9. “Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant,” Laura M. Zucconi
SECTION II: NAḪAL ʿAMRAM
10. “Ancient Copper Mines at Naḫal ʿAmram, Southern Arabah,” Uzi Avner, Hanan Ginat, Sariel Shalev, Sana Shilstine, Boaz Langford, Amos Frumkin, Rachamim Shem-Tov, Sagi Filin, Reuma Arav, Uri Basson, Omer Shamir, and Linda Scott-Cummings
11. “Volume and Mass Estimation of Mine Dumps and Slag Piles Using High-Resolution Terrestrial Laser Scans,” Reuma Arav, Sagi Filin and Uzi Avner
12. “Evidence of Past Flood Intensities in the Naḫal ʿAmram Copper Mines,” Hanan Ginat, Dagan Meeshly, Uzi Avner, and Boaz Langford
13. “Miners’ Meals at the Copper Mines of Naḫal ʿAmram, Southern Israel,” Liora Kolska Horwitz, Uzi Avner, and Omri Lernau
14. “Naḫal ʿAmram, Southern Arabah Valley: A Survey of Underground Copper Mines,” Boaz Langford, Amos Frumkin, Uzi Avner, and Hanan Ginat
15. “A Preliminary Study of Copper Slag in the Southern Arabah Valley,” Sana Shilstein and Sariel Shalev
SECTION III: FAYNAN, THE NEGEV AND BEYOND
16. “Intensive Surveys, Large-Scale Excavation Strategies and Iron Age Industrial Metallurgy in Faynan, Jordan: Fairy Tales Don’t Come True,” Thomas E. Levy, Erez Ben-Yosef, and Mohammad Najjar
17. “Key Features for Deducing Technological Innovations and Organizational Structures in the Bronze Age Mining District of Faynan, Jordan,” Ingolf Löffler
18. “Copper Trade and the Settlement Rise in the South Levantine Deserts in the EB IV,” Moti Haiman
19. “Extractie Metallurgy in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant: Assessment of Copper Ores from Abu Matar,” Aaron N. Shugar
20. “Bronze Chisel at Horvat Haluqim (Central Negev Highlands) in a Sequence of Radiocarbon Dated Late Bronze to Iron I Layers,” Hendrik J. Bruins, Irina Segal, and Johannes Van der Plicht
21. “The Discovery of the Sinaitic Site Kuntillet Ajrud,” Ze’ev Meshel
22. “The Origin of the Copper Used in Canaan During the Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition,” Naama Yahalom-Mack and Irina Segal
23. “The Arabah Copper Industry in the Islamic Period: Views from Faynan and Timna,” Ian W. N. Jones, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy
SECTION IV: BEYOND THE SOUTHERN LEVANT: CYPRUS, OMAN, GREECE AND BRITAIN
24. “Apliki Karamallos on Cyprus: The 13th Century BCE Miners’ Settlement in Context,” Vasiliki Kassianidou
25. “King Herod and the Cyprus Copper Mines,” Shimon Dar
26. “Archaeometallurgical Research on Iron Age (1250-300 BCE) Copper Production in the Northern Al-Hajjar Mountains (Oman Peninsula),” Julie Goy, Michele Degli Esposti, Cécile Le Carlier de Veslud, and Anne Benoist
27. “Ancient Mining and Metallurgical Activity at the Gold-Silver-Copper Ore Deposits in Mavrokorfi Area, Mount Pangaeon (Northeast Greece),” Markos Vaxevanopoulos, Michail Vavelidis, Vasilios Melfos, Dimitra Malamidou, and Spyros Pavlides
28. “The Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine in North Wales: Opportunities to Link Ore to Metal,” Robert Alan Williams
29. “Copper Mining and Smelting in the British Bronze Age: New Evidence of Mine Sites Including Some Re-analyses of Dates and Ore Sources,” Simon Timberlake and Peter Marshall
SECTION V: METALWORKING
30. “Judah of Iron vs. Israel of Copper: The Metalworking Development in the Land of Israel and its Historical Implications,” Yulia Gottlieb
31. “Tradition and Continuity in Craft Workshops at Tel Dan,” Rachel Ben-Dov
32. “A First Century Jewish Recycling Economy,” Matthew Ponting and Dan Levene
33. “Early Bronze Age Refining of Copper,” Christopher John Davey
34. “Bronze Production in Pi-Ramesse: Alloying Technology and Material Use,” Frederik W. Rademakers, Thilo Rehren, and Edgar B. Pusch
35. “Examples of Copper Harpoons of Naqada Culture in the Eastern Nile Delta,” Marcin Czarnowicz
36. “Bronze Working at Sumhuram: New Data from an Ancient South Arabian Harbor on the Coast of Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman),” Michele Degli Esposti, Carla Martini, Cristina Chiavari, Elena Bernardi, and Gian Luca Garagnani
37. “Observations on Socketed Copper Alloy Arrowheads in the Early First Millenium BCE,” Jamie M. Szudy
