Metal provenance of Iron Age Hacksilber hoards in the southern Levant

Liesel Gentelli (1) , Janne Blichert-Toft (1) , Gillan Davis , Haim Gitler , Francis Albarède

1 ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon

Hacksilber facilitated trade and transactions from the beginning of the second millennium BCE until the late fourth century BCE in the southern Levant. Here we demonstrate the use of new, data-driven statistical approaches to interpret high-precision Pb isotope analysis of silver found in archaeological contexts for provenance determination. We sampled 46 pieces of

Domaines: Géochimie; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Liesel Gentelli, Janne Blichert-Toft, Gillan Davis, Haim Gitler, Francis Albarède. Metal provenance of Iron Age Hacksilber hoards in the southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2021, ⟨10.1016/j.jas.2021.105472⟩. ⟨hal-03327707⟩