Biblical Archaeology Review

Josephus, The Jewish War 3.41 S-416, 422–427.

AP story by Frank Baker, dateline Concord, N.H., Sept. 17, 1990, AP document 107880; letter from Cross to author, June 21, 1989.

E.S. Rosenthal, “The Giva’t ha-Mivtar Inscription,” Israel Exploration Journal (IEJ) 23 (1973), pp. 72–81; Naveh, “An Aramaic Tomb Inscription Written in Paleo-Hebrew Script,” IEJ 23 (1973), pp. 82–91. See also Naveh, Early History of the Alphabet pp. 120–121. fig. 15A.

Frank M. Cross, letter to Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., dated June 19, 1989, copy in the author’s possession.

Robert C. Mainfort and Mary L. Kwas, “The Bat Creek Stone: Judeans in Tennessee?” TA 16 (1991), pp. 1–19. An extensive reply by the author is forthcoming in TA, to which the reader is referred for further details.

Charles Hudson, “Juan Pardo’s Excursion Beyond Chiaha,” TA 12 (1987), p. 79.

Beta Analytic, Inc. (Coral Gables, FL), Test #24483, for the preparation of the specimen: Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule (Zurich, Switz.), Test #3677 (report of May 2, 1988), for the radiocarbon dating.

William C. Mills, “Exploration of the Mound City Group,” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications 31 (1922), pp. 423–584. reports cupreous preservation of leather, fur, thread, fabric, wood and bark matting in a Hopewellian mound site in Ohio (pp. 452, 494, 550, 552, 557, 559–560).

Emmert, letter to Cyrus Thomas dated March 7, 1889 (Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives, MS 2400, Tennessee).