Article ID: CBB001422058

The Socioeconomic Status of Iron Age Metalworkers: Animal Economy in the “Slaves” Hill, Timna, Israel (2014)

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The popular image of metalworking sites in desert settings envisages armies of slaves engaged in back-breaking labour. This is in conflict with ethnographic evidence indicating that skilled specialist metalworkers are often accorded high social status. This study approaches that contradiction directly by studying the remains of domesticated food animals from domestic and industrial contexts at Timna in southern Israel. The authors demonstrate that the higher-value meat cuts come from industrial contexts, where they were associated with the specialist metalworkers, rather than the `domestic' contexts occupied by lower status workers engaged in support roles. It is suggested that the pattern documented here could also have been a feature of early metalworking sites in other times and places.

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Authors & Contributors
Charlton, Mike
Armada, Xosé-Lois
Nicholas D. Cahill
Bennerhag, Carina
Stilborg, Ole
Grandin, Lena
Concepts
Archaeology
Domestication
Animals
Metals and metallic compounds
Metallurgy
Cattle
Time Periods
Ancient
Iron age
Prehistory
Bronze age
Medieval
19th century
Places
Middle and Near East
Ottoman Empire
Great Britain
Sardis (Turkey)
Lydia (Turkey)
South Asia
Institutions
Yorkshire Antiquarian Club (1849-1860)
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