The Chalcolithic hoard from Nahal Mishmar, Israel, in context

P. R. S. Moorey

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Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies Archaeological and Geological Studies

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The earlier fourth millennium BC hoard of over 400 copper objects and thirteen of other materials discovered in 1961 in a cave in the Nahal Mishmar, west of the Dead Sea in Israel, is of worldwide significance for the earliest history of copper metallurgy. This paper, in seeking to make the hoard's significance more explicit, argues that it is all the product of settlements in the northern Negev of Israel probably obtaining their copper from mines in the Wadi Feinan, Jordan. It may originally have come from a local temple treasury.

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