Tel Aviv University - 6,500-year-old metalworkers: Humanity’s 1st smelting furnaces found in Israel?

Title:

6,500-year-old metalworkers: Humanity’s 1st smelting furnaces found in Israel?

 

Author:

Amanda Borschel-Dan

 

Published:

The Times of Israel, 4 October 2020

https://www.timesofisrael.com/evidence-of-first-metallurgy-furnaces-from-6500-years-ago-found-in-beersheba/?mc_cid=d648381bcc&mc_eid=28489aa4bd

 

From the article:

A new archaeological study shows that even some 6,500 years ago, Israel was already a start-up nation — complete with a metallurgy R&D hub in Beersheba. Salvage excavations in the Negev Desert capital in 2017 revealed 6,500-year-old copper smelting workshops using the earliest-known evidence of furnaces instead of small portable crucibles for metallurgy.