The Timna Valley
is one of the oldest and best-preserved copper mining areas in the
world. Since the late 1950s, it has served as a "field laboratory" for
the study of ancient metallurgy and human activity in hyper-arid
regions. Since 2012, a comprehensive archaeological study has been
carried out by the Central Timna Valley (CTV) Project on behalf of Tel Aviv University and led by Prof. Erez Ben Yosef.
This research, which includes extensive surveys and excavations,
focuses on the application of new dating methods and analysis of
technological and social processes from the genesis of human activity in
the region during the Neolithic period
until the modern era.
The extensive data collected in the current study as well as from the
previous archaeological missions, namely the “Arabah Expedition” led by
Prof. Beno Rothenberg,
includes thousands of digital files, photos, maps, field report tables,
results of laboratory analyses, etc., most of which are associated with
a specific site inside the valley. Currently, the CTV Project is
working on producing a GIS of the valley and its archaeology as well as
publishing the final reports of its excavations as a printed monography.
Since the published material will be very limited, the Project wishes
to develop a digital database that will contain all the archaeological
data collected in Timna by the current and past expeditions, which will
be available to other researchers and the public. Together with the TAD
team [[1]],
we have been examining various options for building such a database,
including the use of Wiki platforms like Wikibase and Wikidata.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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