Abstract
The use of cliff caves in the Judean Desert during the Late Chalcolithic period (c. 4500-3800 BCE) is worldly renowned since 1961. In that year, a hoard containing over 400 metal objects was found in a cave in Wadi Mahras (Mishmar Valley, Heb. Nahal Mishmar), one of the deep dry ravines draining into the Dead Sea (Bar-Adon 1980). The Cave of the Treasure, as it came to be known, and the circumstances that led to the caching of the hoard, gained growing scholarly interest in the following decades (e.g., Garfinkel 1994; Goren 2008; Moorey 1988; Sebbane 2016; Tadmor 1989; Tadmor
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research |
| Editors | Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, Anne Jörgensen-Lindahl, Mikkel Sørrensen, Tobias Richter |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Archaeopress |
| Pages | 175-188 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781789694789 |
| State | Published - 2022 |