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Major copper deposits in the Arabian Peninsula. (Data Source for Geologic Provinces: (Pollastro, 1998). Copper localities after ArWHO survey and Hauptmann, 2007: 41; Hassan Ahmed, 2022: 464; Hauptmann, 1985: 116; Levy et al., 2014: 18; Pugachevsky et al., 2009; Roberts, 1975: 46. Basemap Credits: Earthstar Geographics; Esri, USGS; World Hillshade)
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From the southern Levant to southeast Arabia, new technologies and social networks shaped metal production and trade in a variety of important ways. In this paper, we review the development of copper metallurgy in Early Iron Age Oman ca. 1300–800 BCE and compare it with development in the southern Levant. Settlement intensification, innovations in...
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... Arabian Peninsula as a whole, extending from the southern portions of modern Iraq and Jordan to Yemen, the Sultanate of Oman and the Persian Gulf, occupies an immense region rich with metal deposits ( Figs. 1 and 2), yet empirical data concerning metal industries, in particular primary copper smelting, is poorly known outside of the Levant. Precambrian basement rocks, which extend as part of the Arabian-Nubian shield from the Sinai through the Hijaz and Yemen, host numerous major deposits of copper, gold, silver, lead and iron that have archaeological significance (Hassan Ahmed, 2022a). ...
