First evidence of bronze production in the Iron Age I southern Levant: A direct link to the Arabah copper polity

• Tzilla Eshel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: teshel@univ.haifa.ac.il

  Affiliations School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0976-0877

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• Yoav Bornstein,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Gal Bermatov-Paz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3382-752X

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• Shay Bar

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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