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TEL AVIV-JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 208-236Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03344355.2020.1820040
Keywords
Iron production; Copper; bronze working; Metal crafts; Philistia; Iron IIA; Tell es-Safi; Gath
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- Israel Science Foundation [1047/17, 911/18]
- Azrieli Foundation
- RIAB Minerva Center
- ISF [1047/17]
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An iron and bronze workshop in the lower city of Tell es-Safi/Gath, dated to the mid-late Iron IIA, contributes new data on the chronology, organization, and practice of metal production in the urban Philistine setting. Analyses show that iron objects were likely produced and maintained on a large scale, alongside bronze, employing regionally unique forms of crucibles and tuyeres. The material culture of metalworking is discussed in relation to contemporaneous iron production sites in the region, building a more robust picture of the adoption of iron metallurgy in the Levant versus the status of bronze and iron.
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