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For a more in-depth discussion of this hypothesis, see T.E. Levy, “‘You shall make for yourself no molten gods’—Some thoughts on Archaeology and Edomite Ethnic Identity” in S. Dolansky, ed., Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion in Honor of R.E. Friedman on His 60th Birthday (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbraun, in press).

The one earlier radiocarbon date came from an earlier piece of charcoal that was mixed in with material from the later stratum.

Nelson Glueck, The Other Side of the Jordan (New Haven: ASOR, 1940), pp. 60–61.

Sixty-four sites along the Wadi al Guwayb and twenty-seven sites along the Wadi Jariyah.

Piotr Bienkowski, “The Edomites: The Archaeological Evidence from Transjordan,” in Diane V. Edelman, ed., You Shall Not Abhor an Edomite for He Is Your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition, Archaeological and Biblical Studies 3 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), pp. 44–45.

Jordanian School Atlas (Amman: Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre, 2001).

For an outstanding guidebook to all the wadis of Biblical Edom, Moab and Ammon, see I. Haviv, Trekking and Canyoning in the Jordanian Dead Sea Rift (Israel: Desert Breeze Press, 2000).