Mining for ancient copper. Essays in memory of Beno Rothenberg

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Monograph series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology 37. Eisenbrauns, University Park, PA, 2018. First edition. In-4, xviii & 566 pages. Original hardcover, new. Contents: Preface / Erez Ben-Yosef. Section I. Timna Valley. Stratigraphy and Structure of the Timna Valley and Adjacent Ancient Mining Areas / Michael Beyth, Amit Segev, and Hanan Ginat -- Beno Rothenberg and the Chronology of Copper Smelting at Timna / James D. Muhly -- The Central Timna Valley Project: Research Design and Preliminary Results / Erez Ben-Yosef -- The Diet of Ancient Metal Workers: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Arabah Valley (Timna and Faynan) / Lidar Sapir-Hen, Omri Lernau, and Erez Ben-Yosef -- The Sinai-Arabah Copper Age Early Phase (Chalcolithic) Mine T Excavations / Tim Shaw and Alexandra Drenka -- The Inscription of Ramessesmpere in Context / Deborah Sweeney -- A Preliminary Archaeomagnetic Investigation of the Yotvata Fortress / Ilana Peters, Lisa Tauxe, and Erez Ben-Yosef -- Who was the Deity Worshipped at the Tent-Sanctuary of Timna? / Nissim Amzallag -- Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant / Laura M. Zucconi. Section II. Nahal Amram. Ancient Copper Mines at Nahal Amram, Southern Arabah / Uzi Avner, Hanan Ginat, Sariel Shalev, Sana Shilstine, Boaz Langford, Amos Frumkin, Rachamim Shem-Tov, Sagi Filin, Reuma Arav, Uri Basson, Omer Shamir, and Linda Scott-Cummings -- Volume and Mass Estimation of Mine Dumps and Slag Piles Using High-Resolution Terrestrial Laser Scans / Reuma Arav, Sagi Filin and Uzi Avner -- Evidence of Past Flood Intensities in the Nahal Amram Copper Mines / Hanan Ginat, Dagan Meeshly, Uzi Avner, and Boaz Langford -- Miners' Meals at the Copper Mines of Nahal Amram, Southern Israel / Liora Kolska Horwitz, Uzi Avner, and Omri Lernau -- Nahal Amram, Southern Arabah Valley: A Survey of Underground Copper Mines / Boaz Langford, Amos Frumkin, Uzi Avner, and Hanan Ginat -- A Preliminary Study of Copper Slag in the Southern Arabah Valley / Sana Shilstein and Sariel Shalev. Section III. Faynan, the Negev and Beyond. Intensive Surveys, Large-Scale Excavation Strategies and Iron Age Industrial Metallurgy in Faynan, Jordan: Fairy Tales Don't Come True / Thomas E. Levy, Erez Ben-Yosef, and Mohammad Najjar -- Key Features for Deducing Technological Innovations and Organizational Structures in the Bronze Age Mining District of Faynan, Jordan / Ingolf Lo_ffler -- Copper Trade and the Settlement Rise in the South Levantine Deserts in the EB IV / Moti Haiman -- Extractive Metallurgy in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant: Assessment of Copper Ores from Abu Matar / Aaron N. Shugar -- Bronze Chisel at Horvat Haluqim (Central Negev Highlands) in a Sequence of Radiocarbon Dated Late Bronze to Iron I Layers / Hendrik J. Bruins, Irina Segal, and Johannes Van der Plicht -- The Discovery of the Sinaitic Site Kuntillet Ajrud / Ze'ev Meshel -- The Origin of the Copper Used in Canaan During the Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition / Naama Yahalom-Mack and Irina Segal -- The Arabah Copper Industry in the Islamic Period: Views from Faynan and Timna / Ian W.N. Jones, Mohammad Najjar, and Thomas E. Levy. Section IV. Beyond the Southern Levant: Cyprus, Oman, Greece and Britain. Apliki Karamallos on Cyprus: The 13th Century BCE Miners' Settlement in Context / Vasiliki Kassianidou -- King Herod and the Cyprus Copper Mines / Shimon Dar -- Archaeometallurgical Research on Iron Age (1250-300 BCE) Copper Production in the Northern Al-Hajjar Mountains (Oman Peninsula) / Julie Goy, Michele Degli Esposti, Ce_cile Le Carlier de Veslud, and Anne Benoist -- Ancient Mining and Metallurgical Activity at the Gold-Silver-Copper Ore Deposits in Mavrokorfi Area, Mount Pangaeon (Northeast Greece) / Markos Vaxevanopoulos, Michail Vavelidis, Vasilios Melfos, Dimitra Malamidou, and Spyros Pavlides -- The Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine in North Wales: Opportunities to Link Ore to Metal / Robert Alan Williams -- Copper Mining and Smelting in the Briti. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M9643

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