Iron IIA slag-tempered pottery in the Negev Highlands, Israel

Mario A.S. Martin; Adi Eliyahu-Behar; Michael Anenburg; Yuval Goren; Israel Finkelstein

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.04.024

Iron IIA slag-tempered pottery in the Negev Highlands, Israel

Mario A.S. Martin^*, Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Michael Anenburg, Yuval Goren, Israel Finkelstein

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The article presents results of a petrographic investigation of pottery from Iron IIA settlements in the Negev Highlands in southern Israel. It focuses on a group of almost exclusively handmade wares that are tempered with crushed slag. The polarizing and electron microscopes explicitly identify these inclusions as copper smelting slag. Based on the slag as well as certain rock inclusions, the slag-tempered wares can be sourced to the copper districts in the Wadi Arabah, and hence for the first time provide a link between the Negev Highlands and the Arabah copper production centers in the period under review. More specifically, they demonstrate direct involvement of at least part of the pastoral-nomadic Negev Highlands population in the copper extraction system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3777-3792
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume	40
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.04.024
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013
Externally published	Yes

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