S. Shalev, THE CHANGE IN METAL PRODUCTION FROM THE CHALCOLITHIC PERIOD TO THE EARLY BRONZE-AGE IN ISRAEL AND JORDAN, Antiquity, 68(260), 1994, pp. 630-637
Distinctive patterns in the nature and composition of early metal obje
cts in Israel and Jordan make it possible to find a chronological orde
r in the celebrated, and hard-to-date, copper-mining sites of the regi
on.