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Lead isotopes in silver reveal earliest Phoenician quest for metals in the west MediterraneanTzilla Eshel, Yigal Erel, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Ofir Tirosh, and Ayelet Gilboa
PNAS published ahead of print February 25, 2019
New research that analyzes the chemical and isotopic composition of caches of silver found in archaeological excavations in Israel offers new answers to the question of the spread of the Phoenician culture, one of the most important civilizations in the Mediterranean region in the first millennium before the Common Era.