Up the Wadi: Development of an Iron Age industrial landscape in Faynan, Jordan
Liss, Brady Howland, Matthew D. Lorentzen, Brita Smitheram, Craig Najjar, Mohammad Levy, Thomas E.
Liss, Brady
Howland, Matthew D.
Lorentzen, Brita
Smitheram, Craig
Najjar, Mohammad
Levy, Thomas E.
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2020-04-28
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Khirbat al-Jariya,Edom,Levant,Metallurgy,Copper production
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Liss, B., Howland, M. D., Lorentzen, B., Smitheram, C., Najjar, M., & Levy, T. E. (2020). Up the Wadi: Development of an Iron Age Industrial Landscape in Faynan, Jordan. Journal of Field Archaeology, 45(6), 413–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2020.1747792
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In 2014, the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project renewed excavations at Khirbat al-Jariya (KAJ), an Iron Age copper smelting site in Faynan, Jordan. Located roughly 3 km from the prominent smelting center Khirbat en-Nahas (KEN), KAJ was an integral component of Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–800 b.c.) copper production in Faynan, one of the largest copper ore deposits in the southern Levant. To date, the site had only been investigated by surveys and limited excavation; the 2014 excavations opened two areas (the largest extant building and a slag mound sounding) to explore the social dynamics and temporal intricacies of copper production. The excavation results, detailed site remapping, paleobotanical analysis, and new radiocarbon dates suggest KAJ more rapidly developed into a large-scale copper production center than previously believed, likely as a strategic expansion to the industry at KEN. This reinterpretation sheds new light on the development of the Iron Age industrial landscape in Faynan.
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Article published online: 2020-04-28. Article published in issue: 2020-08-17.
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Taylor & Francis
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Journal of Field Archaeology
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0093-4690
2042-4582
2042-4582