Contributed articles on the concept of life according to various religions and sacred works.
Discussing the dawn of the age of metals, this work takes readers from the copper mines of the Aravah in Jordan and Israel where the ore was acquired, to the villages of the northern Negev such as Shiqmim, where copper was produced in household workshops.
Discussing the dawn of the age of metals, this work takes readers from the copper mines of the Aravah in Jordan and Israel where the ore was acquired, to the villages of the northern Negev such as Shiqmim, where copper was produced in household workshops.
"Analyzing evidence from a town site in southeastern Turkey that dates to the third millennium B.C., Patricia Wattenmaker uses patterns in the production of ceramics, stone tools, textiles, and food to explore a fundamental archaeological and anthropological question: why did cr…