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Archaeologists find an ancient blade workshop in Southern Israel
Recent excavations near Kiryat Gat have revealed a 5,500-year-old blade workshop dating from the Early Bronze Age. Led by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in preparation for a new housing development, the workshop served as a major production centre for specialised flint Canaanite blades. According to a press statement by the IAA, “These long, razor-sharp tools were created using large stone flint cores—an especially rare find in archaeolo…
Cut into the rock more than five millennia ago, precision technology emerges in southern Israel, questioning the usual chronology of artisanal specialization. In Kiryat Gat, a team of the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) has uncovered a Cananeian workshop for the manufacture of flint blades, dated about 3500 B.C. This is the first site of this type discovered in the region. The analysis of the equipment reveals a complex operating chain, cent…
An ancient blade manufacturing workshop was uncovered - The first ever discovered in southern Israel!
A salvage excavation in the Carmei Gat area, conducted before neighborhood construction, uncovered a remarkable Early Bronze Age site at Naḥal Qomem, also known as Gat-Govrin or Zeita. The discovery offers a rare window into the technological prowess and societal complexity of this period, revealing an advanced flint industry with significant implications for understanding early urbanization.The excavation, led by Dr. Martin David Pasternak, Shi…
Ancient Blade Manufacturing Workshop Uncovered in Kiryat Gat
In an archaeological excavation conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority prior to building a new Kiryat Gat neighborhood -Carmei Gat, an advanced flint industry dating back approximately 5,500 years was uncovered – evidence of specialization in a unique technology.
Under the grounds where a new neighborhood is to be built in the city of Carmei Gat, south of Israel, archaeologists have found a workshop specialized in the manufacture of silica blades during the early Bronze Age about 5000 years ago, the first of its kind discovered in [...]
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