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Oct 4, 2020 · The team isn’t asserting that furnace smelting was invented in the Be’er Sheva Valley or even the southern Levant, but that their find, a fixed (immovable) furnace made of clay built into the ground, is one of the earliest of its kind.
Oct 4, 2020 · “The surprising finds include a small workshop for smelting copper with shards of a furnace – a small installation made of tin in which copper ore was smelted — as well as a lot of copper...
Oct 12, 2020 · Israeli researchers have uncovered what could be the oldest furnace found to date—a nearly 6,500-year-old forge they say helped to stratify the ancient economy at the time.
- Caroline Delbert
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Oct 4, 2020 · It was a type of charcoal-based mobile furnace. Here, at the Neveh Noy workshop that the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered, we show that the technology was based on real furnaces.
The first stage of ironworking was smelting iron-rich stone, known as ore, to extract metallic iron. Historically, iron smelting has been associated particularly with the Weald, the Forest of Dean and Northamptonshire.
Oct 5, 2020 · Israeli archaeologists have discovered an ancient, advanced metal furnace near Beersheba that shatters the timeline for early copper smelting and metalwork. Evidence of a “leap forward” in metallurgy has been discovered at a 6,500 years old site in Beersheba in the Negev Desert of southern Israel.
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Feb 19, 2019 · Not one single ancient facility to make iron has been discovered in Israel. One theory is that this is because the ancient furnaces were used exactly once: they would be destroyed in order to extract the purified iron from their insides.
