Tag Archive for 'Metallurgy'

Copper slag from Horvat Beter, Beer Sheva, southern Israel. Image credit: Anat Rasiuk, Israel Antiquities Authority.

Archaeologists Unearth 6,500-Year-Old Copper-Smelting Workshop in Israel

Oct 6, 2020 by News Staff

Archaeologists from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Geological Survey of Israel have excavated a Chalcolithic-period (5th...

Main features of the organization of production and detailed chaîne opératoires for the copper industry in Edom during the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages. Image credit: Ben-Yosef et al, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221967.

Biblical Edomite Kingdom was ‘Copper Powerhouse,’ Study Reveals

Sep 19, 2019 by News Staff

Edom, an ancient kingdom of the southern Levant mentioned in the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) as well as in Assyrian and Egyptian sources, experienced...

Slaves’ Hill in the center of the Timna Valley (looking east); the black slag mounds on the hilltop are visible, as well as the only access path to the site; the arrow indicates the gatehouse complex. Image credit: Erez Ben-Yosef et al.

King Solomon-Era Fortification Unearthed in Israel’s Timna Valley

Jan 26, 2017 by News Staff

A team of Tel Aviv University archaeologists has uncovered a gatehouse and associated livestock pens — dating to the reign of Kings Solomon and David...

Wadi Faynan, where J.P. Grattan et al found evidence of ancient pollution caused by bead making and/or repeated combustion of copper ores in hot fires. Image credit: University of Waterloo.

World’s Very First Polluted River? Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Metallurgical Activity in Jordan

Dec 6, 2016 by News Staff

A research team led by Liverpool John Moores University scientists has discovered what could be the world’s very first polluted river, contaminated 7,000...

Location of Cape Espenberg. Image credit: Rand McNally.

Asian Metals were Traded in Alaska Centuries before Sustained Contact with Europeans

Jun 10, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Two artifacts found at Cape Espenberg on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska are the first evidence that Asian metal alloys reached North...

Norsemen Landing in Iceland by Oscar Wergeland, published in 1909.

Scientists Find Evidence of Viking Presence in Arctic Canada

Dec 16, 2014 by News Staff

A small stone artifact recovered from a Paleo-Eskimo site on Baffin Island is important evidence of a Viking presence in Arctic Canada around 1000 CE,...

The 7,000-year-old metal awl from Tel Tsaf upon discovery. Image credit: Yosef Garfinkel.

7,000-Year-Old Metal Artifact Unearthed at Tel Tsaf, Israel

Aug 23, 2014 by News Staff

A 7,000-year-old copper awl unearthed at the archaeological site of Tel Tsaf, Israel, is the earliest metal artifact found to date in the Middle East,...