I am pleased to invite you to a one-day conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, preceded by two days of excursion in the Arabah (organized in collaboration with the French Research Center in Jerusalem). Please see the program below. I will be happy to provide additional information.

Merry Christmas to you and to yours

Naama Yahalom-Mack

Dr. Naama Yahalom-Mack

Institute of Archaeology

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Metal Provenancing in the Southern Levant and Beyond

February 2-4, 2019

Hosted by the Laboratory for Archaeological Materials and Ancient Technologies (LAMAT), The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and The French Research Center in Jerusalem (CFRJ)

 

Saturday-Sunday, February 2-3

Excursion to mines and smelting camps in the Arabah (Timna Valley and Wadi Amram)

 

Monday, February 4

Barbara Mandel Auditorium, Mandel Building, Mount Scopus, HUJI

 

9:30-13:00 First Session: Sourcing Iron

Chair: Prof. Yigal Erel (Institute of Earth Sciences, HUJI)

Provenance of Iron: A New Approach! (Michael Brauns, Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum Archäometrie, An-Institut der Universität Tübingen)

Potential Iron Sources of the Iron Age Southern Levant; Survey, Analyses and Experiments (Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Ariel University)

Hematite Objects from Iron Age Sites as a Proxy for Iron Sourcing (Adi Shulman, The Program of Environmental Sciences, HUJI)

 

Coffee Break

 

Understanding the Earliest Iron Artifacts in South Eastern Arabia (Ivan Stepanov, Ariel University)

Iron Economy during the Early Iron Age in Northern France and Western Germany: Approaching the Origin and Circulation of Iron (Sylvain Bauvais, CNRS, Paris)

Local or Foreign Iron during the 2nd Millennium AD in Coastal Countries of West Africa?" (Caroline Robion-Brunner, CNRS, Paris)

 

Lunch Break

 

14:00-17:00 Second Session: Non-Ferrous Metals

Chair: Prof. Sariel Shalev (University of Haifa)

Inscribed Lead Ingots from Caesarea (Naama Yahalom-Mack, Institute of Archaeology, HUJI, Assaf Yasur-Landau and Ehud Galili, University of Haifa)

The Source of Levantine Silver in the Iron Age I: The Problem of Cu-Ag Alloys (Tzilla Eshel, University of Haifa and HUJI)

 

Coffee Break

 

Mining Referentials for Metal Tracing in Ancient Times (Sandrine Baron, CNRS, Paris)

Remarks on the Provenancing of Copper from Cyprus (Vasiliki Kassianidou, University of Cyprus)

 

17:30   Dinner Reception at the French Research Center in Jerusalem, 3 Shimshon St.

 

To confirm your participation in the conference and/or excursion please contact Naama Yahalom-Mack ([log in to unmask]).

           

 

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