Author : Erez Ben-Yosef
Release : 2014-12-31
Genre : Social Science
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New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan write by Erez Ben-Yosef. This book was released on 2014-12-31. New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Situated south of the Dead Sea, near the famous Nabatean capital of Petra, the Faynan region in Jordan contains the largest deposits of copper ore in the southern Levant. The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP) takes an anthropological-archaeology approach to the deep-time study of culture change in one of the Old World's most important locales for studying technological development. Using innovative digital tools for data recording, curation, analyses, and dissemination, the researchers focused on ancient mining and metallurgy as the subject of surveys and excavations related to the Iron Age (ca. 1200-500 BCE), when the first local, historical state-level societies appeared in this part of the eastern Mediterranean basin. This comprehensive and important volume challenges the current scholarly consensus concerning the emergence and historicity of the Iron Age polity of biblical Edom and some of its neighbors, such as ancient Israel. Excavations and radiometric dating establish a new chronology for Edom, adding almost 500 more years to the Iron Age, including key periods of biblical history when David, Solomon, and the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I are alleged to have interacted with Edom. Included is a 7 gigabyte DVD with over 55,000 files of additional data and photographs from the project.