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See R.D. Ballard and Lawrence E. Stager et al., “Iron Age Shipwrecks in Deep Water Off Ashkelon, Israel,” American Journal of Archaeology (2002), pp. 151–168 and Lawrence E. Stager, “Phoenician Shipwrecks and the Ship Tyre (Ezekiel 27),” in J. Pollini, ed., Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005), pp. 238–254.
On mining see K.A. Yener, “The Archaeometry of Silver in Anatolia: The Bolkardağ Mining District,” American Journal of Archaeology (1986), pp. 469–472; on the old Assyrian Caravan Trade, see the summary by K.R. Veenhof, “Kanesh an Assyrian Colony in Anatolia,” in J.M. Sasson, ed., Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (New York: Scribner, 1995), pp. 859–871.
