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ARCHAEOMETRY
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 576-597Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00429.x
Keywords
ARCHAEOMETALLURGY; LEAD ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; BRONZE AGE; RED SEA; ARABIA; YEMEN; COPPER; CORROSION
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- Buffalo State University
- University of Nottingham
- Bryn Mawr College
- University of Southampton
- Royal Ontario Museum
- NERC [bgs04003, nigl010001] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs04003, nigl010001] Funding Source: researchfish
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The results of the lead isotope analysis (LIA) of 15 copper-base artefacts from the Bronze Age site of al-Midamman, Yemen, are reported. The LIA data suggest the existence of an indigenous Bronze Age metal production and exchange system centred on the southern Red Sea region, distinct from those in neighbouring regions of Arabia and the Levant. These preliminary results are highly significant for the archaeology of the region, suggesting that local prehistoric copper extraction sites have thus far gone unrecorded, and highlighting the need for systematic archaeometallurgical fieldwork programmes in the countries surrounding the southern Red Sea.
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