Ancient Secrets Revealed: Inside the 5,500-Year-Old Canaanite Blade Workshop Unearthed in Southern Israel
“These pits served a variety of purposes,” the excavation directors explained, “storage, dwellings, production crafts, and cultic/social rituals.”
Israel Antiquities AuthorityArchaeologists also uncovered hundreds of pits, which once served a myriad of purposes.
Such discoveries are indications of a highly sophisticated society. And archaeologists believe that this Early Bronze Age society carefully guarded the secrets of their blade-making crafts.
“This is a sophisticated industry — not only because of the tools themselves, but also because of what is not found,” Dr. Jacob Vardi explained. “The waste fragments, the debitage, were not scattered outside the site — perhaps to better protect and preserve the professional knowledge within the group of experts. Today, we understand that this site served as a center, from which Canaanite blades were distributed across broad regions in the Levant.”
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