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Area M, excavated in 2002 and 2006, was a sounding into one of the large slag mounds at Khirbat en-Nahas. This slag mound was selected for excavation based on its possible association with small stone installations visible on the surface and its proximity to Area S. Excavations totaled six meters in depth, discovering virgin soil below the slag mound. Most of the mound represents an accumulation of deliberately dumped production waste from nearby copper smelting, composed of interchanging horizons of various slag types and sediment layers mixed with tuy�re (clay tubes used to blow air into a furnace) and furnace fragments. Area M provides information concerning the copper production history at the site as well as technological transitions through time. Twenty four radiocarbon dates collected from Area M indicate production beginning in the Late Bronze Age and abandonment at the end of the 9th century BCE. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
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