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By Thomas E. Levy,Mohammad Najjar,Erez Ben-Yosef

ISBN-10: 1931745994

ISBN-13: 9781931745994

positioned south of the lifeless Sea, close to the recognized Nabataean capital of Petra, the Faynan sector in Jordan includes the biggest deposits of copper ore within the southern Levant. The Edom Lowlands local Archaeology undertaking (ELRAP) takes an anthropological archaeology method of the deep-time research of tradition switch in a single of the outdated World’s most crucial locales for learning technological development. Using cutting edge electronic instruments for info recording, curation, analyses and dissemination, the researchers concentrated on ancient mining and metallurgy because the topic of surveys and excavations with regards to the Iron Age (ca. 1200–500 BCE), whilst the 1st neighborhood, ancient state-level societies seemed during this a part of the japanese Mediterranean basin. This complete and significant quantity demanding situations the present scholarly consensus about the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and a few of its buddies, similar to old Israel. Excavations and radiometric courting determine a brand new chronology for Edom, including nearly 500 extra years to the Iron Age, together with key sessions of biblical background while David, Solomon, and the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I are imagined to have interacted with Edom.

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