The Dawn of Iron Smelting in Palestine
The Late Bronze Age Smelter at Tel Yin'am, Preliminary Report
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11074352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold Liebowitz, Robert L Folk, Robert Folk |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-280 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Field Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-4690 • E-ISSN: 2042-4582 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/009346984791535458 |
| OpenAlex | W2026877223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Room 1 of a large Late Bronze II building at Tel Yin'am in the eastern Lower Galilee of Israel yielded remains of an industrial installation. On the basis of the data furnished in this report, we suggest the possibility that the industrial installation served as a primitive, perhaps not successful, iron smelter datable to the 13th century B.C. This discovery contributes to our knowledge of early iron technology and has significance for the history of the coming of iron. Broader implications of this discovery are that attempts at ironworking in the land of Israel antedate the Philistines and that the impetus for iron technology did not necessarily come from the Aegean but may have come from Syria and Anatolia. The purpose of this report is to present the data and the current state of our interpretation of it
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Geography · Iron Age · Metallurgy · Palestine · Smelting · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2015 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |