Abstract
The Middle Bronze Age II is a period during which there exists a contemporaneous usage of arsenic copper and tin bronze for metal weaponry production. In order to learn more about the alloys used in this period, the blades and rivets from 65 daggers of two significantly different types, which were discovered at the Rishon LeZion (RL) cemetery, Israel, were tested by the non-destructive method of X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The results reveal new knowledge of the alloys selected for dagger and rivet production, both of which represent fine examples of the Middle Bronze Age II Southern Levant in metal industry.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 535-553 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Archaeometry |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 8 Sept 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
Funding
We wish to thank the Israel Antiquities Authority, especially Y. Levi, the excavator of the RL cemetery, R. Kletter, the scientific editor of the RL final report, and Z. Greenhut, head of the IAA conservation laboratory, for their ample help and cooperation in this research; C. Amit photographed the objects shown in Figures 1 – 3. We also thank E. Marcus for his assistance and E. Adama for his help with Figures 4 and 5 and Y. Meron for her help in prepress. Y. Levi headed the excavations in the RL cemetery, T. Kan‐Cipor ‐ Meron undertook the typology of the objects, S. Shilstein and S. Shalev conducted the analyses, and S. Shalev processed the raw data and wrote the archaeometallurgical synthesis.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- History
- Archaeology