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For overviews of the Nabatean kingdom in the Negev and Hijaz, see M. Babelli, Mada’in Saleh (Riyadh: M. Babelli, 2007) and M. Evenari, L. Shanan and N. Tadmor, The Negev—The Challenge of a Desert, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982).

D. Mattingly, P. Newson, O. Creighton, R. Tomber, J. Grattan, C. Hunt, D. Gilbertson, H. el-Rishi and B. Pyatt, “A Landscape of Imperial Power: Roman and Byzantine Phaino,” in G. Barker, D. Gilbertson and D. Mattingly, eds., Archaeology and Desertification—The Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, Southern Jordan, vol. 6 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007), pp. 305–348.

See D.J. Mattingly, Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2011) and H.A. Friedman, “Industry and Empire: Administration of the Roman and Byzantine Faynan” (University of Leicester: unpublished PhD, 2008).

H. Kind, D.K.K.J. Gilies, A. Hauptmann and G. Weisgerber, “Coins from Faynan, Jordan,” Levant 37 (2005), pp. 169–195.

T.E. Levy, R. B. Adams, A. Hauptmann, M. Prange, S. Schmitt-Strecker and M. Najjar, “Early Bronze Age Metallurgy: A Newly Discovered Copper Manufactory in Southern Jordan,” Antiquity 76 (2002), pp. 25–37.

T.E. Levy, and S. Shalev, “Prehistoric Metalworking in the Southern Levant: Archaeometallurgy and Social Perspectives,” World Archaeology 20 (1989), pp. 353–372.

A. Hauptmann, The Archaeo-metallurgy of Copper—Evidence from Faynan, Jordan (New York: Springer, 2007), p. 43.

T.E. Levy, Journey to the Copper Age—Archaeology in the Holy Land (San Diego: San Diego Museum of Man, 2007).

For a “global snapshot” of the beginning of Old World metallurgy, see D. Wengrow, What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Eilat Mazar, Preliminary Report on The City of David Excavations 2005 at the Visitors Center Area (Jerusalem and New York: Shalem Press, 2007), pp. 38–39.