Book Chapter
Early Bronze Age refining of copper
CJ Davey
Mining for Ancient Copper: Essays in Memory of Professor Beno Rothenberg | Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University. | Published : 2018
Abstract
The 37 chapters of this volume, dedicated to the memory of Beno Rothenberg, present a variety of new studies related to copper in antiquity, with case studies spanning from the British Isles to Oman, Cyprus, and Greece. Special emphasis is given to Timna and other copper ore districts of the Arabah Valley, which have been subjected to a surgeof research in recent years. This new research is a direct continuation of Rothenberg’s pioneering work at Timna, and similarly takes advantage of the extraordinary preservation of archaeological sites there to shed new light on copper production technologies and the societies behind them.