This paper aims at highlighting a methodological flaw in current biblical archaeology, which
became apparent as a result of recent research in the Aravah's Iron Age copper production …

One of the most significant aspects of cultural variation that world archaeology has revealed
is the many different forms of social complexity among ancient and more recent premodern …

Site 34 (“Slaves' Hill”) is a large copper smelting camp located on a flat mesa at the center of
the Timna Valley. The first excavations at the site focused on the main slag mounds, related …

In the context of a broad study aimed at examining dyeing technologies in the Timna textiles
collection, three samples of prestigious fibers dyed with murex sea snail were identified. Our …

Since the early days of biblical archaeology, the prevailing perception of nomads has been
of people incapable of forming strong political entities, whose influence upon the course of …

In the 1960s and 1970s, two copper-smelting sites (Sites 2 and 30) and a cultic place (the
'Hathor Shrine', Site 200) were excavated by Beno Rothenberg's 'Arabah Expedition'in the …

The faunal assemblages of the Late Bronze and Iron Age southern Levant reveal a great
complexity of objectives and methods of livestock exploitation. The assemblages come from …

Recent research has provided valuable insights into the identity and social structure of the
local nomadic tribes operating the two main copper production centers in Wadi Arabah …

This study investigates the diet of copper miners at Naḥal 'Amram (southern Negev Desert),
through the examination of the well-preserved remains of plants, mammal and fish bones …

The origins and early history of the pentateuchal prohibition against eating finless and
scaleless aquatic species (Lev 11: 9–12; Deut 14: 9–10) has yet to merit a detailed …