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Revision as of 10:30, 6 October 2024
Fictive item
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| English | Site 034 fictive |
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Frank/Glueck
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CTV_2014
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CTV_2013, CTV_2014, CTV_2015, CTV_2016, CTV_2018
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Site 34 has been the central site of the Central Timna Valley Project and has been excavated between 2012 and 2023 in more seasons than any other site in Timna. The site is located on a sandstone plateau (ca. 30,000 sqm) surrounded by sheer cliffs averaging 20 m high. On their edge and were the remains of a man-made wall of quarried stones, some of which fell form the cliff and are visible at the
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hill-base. The site has only one access on the northwest, where an access path was cut into the bedrock. Due to its location and the wall surrounding it, the site was interpreted by Nelson Glueck as a “prison camp” and its nickname “Slaves’ Hill” has been popularized until today. Rothenberg’s Arabah Expedition surveyed the hill but decided to leave its excavation to the next generation of archaeol
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ogists. The recent finds of the past 10 years clearly show that the site hosted wealthy individuals, who had expensive textiles, luxurious food and imported painted pottery. The site’s location on top a cliff and its impressive wall was therefore reinterpreted as defensive and its main purpose to keep people out rather than in. The site hosts numerous slag mounds (ca. 1000 tons). Fourteen short-li
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Verify, Rothenberg, 1967; 1972a; Glueck, 1935; Ben-Yosef, 2016; Kleiman et al., 2017; Cavanagh, 2016; Rothenberg & Glass, 1983; Ben-Yosef, 2018; Sapir-Hen et al., 2018; רותנברג, 1967; Yekutieli & sasson, 2010; בן-יוסף וחובריו, 2016; Ben-Yosef et al., 2017; Greener & Ben-Yosef, 2016; Peters et al., 2018
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