42• Probable link between the northern Arabah copper production and the Old Kingdom of 43 Egypt is presented.
44• Key issues in establishing absolute chronology for desert sites are discussed.
45• First mapping and dating of the recently discovered unique cultic/smelting site of
Excavations at the Camel Site, in the Negev, provide evidence of desert cottage industries making (and probably trading) beads and millstones in the Early Bronze Age. But these were people for whom nomadism was the ‘default lifestyle’.
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