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Refractory Ceramics From an Iron Age Bronze Melting Workshop at Khirbet Edh-Dharih, Jordan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

S. Klein ,
A. Hauptmann  and
P.B. Vandiver
S. Klein
Affiliation:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Metallurgy Division, Mailstop 223/B164, Gaithersburg, M.D. 20899, USA
A. Hauptmann
Affiliation:
Andreas Hauptmann, Institut für Archäometallurgie, DMT, Postfach 10 27 49, D-44782 Bochum, Germany
P.B. Vandiver
Affiliation:
Pamela B. Vandiver, Smithsonian Institution, MSC Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA
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Abstract

An excavation at Khirbet edh-Dharih implemented by the Institut Français D'Archaéologie du Proche-Orient brought forth a few archaeometallurgical remains such as lumps of bronze, slags, and refractory ceramic fragments. Khirbet edh-Dharih is located in Jordan, near the Feinan area at Wadi Arabah. The Feinan area is well known as a major supplier of copper in the Near East's history from the Chalcolithic to the Roman period. The remains from Khirbet edh-Dharih were dated from the Iron Age II, and they are pointing to a workshop for further treatment of copper from Feinan. Khirbet edh-Dharih is the first bronze melting site excavated in the Feinan copper district.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 462: Symposium DD – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology V , 1996 , 135
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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