The Development of Tin Bronze in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Age

Ilana Peters; Yotam Asscher; Naama Yahalom-Mack

doi:10.70967/2948-040X.2315

The Development of Tin Bronze in the Southern Levant during the Bronze Age

Ilana Peters, Yotam Asscher, Naama Yahalom-Mack

Institute of Archaeology

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Abstract

The paper surveys the development of the use of tin bronze in the Southern Levant, outlining its emergence in the late Early Bronze Age until its eventual predominance in the Late Bronze Age. As there are no tin or arsenical copper sources in the region, the paper discusses the potential sources based on archaeological and textual evidence, including recent analytical data, reflecting a possible correlation between the changes in metal sources and the shift from arsenical copper to tin bronze.

Original language	English
Article number	3
Journal	Atiqot
Volume	118
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.2315
State	Published - 2025

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Keywords

arsenical copper
Bronze Age
Southern Levant
tin bronze

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