Early Bronze Age blade production workshop in Israel

(JNS) - A 5,500-year old workshop for the production of stone blades has been unearthed in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.

Evidence of an advanced industry was found, including long flint blades and the stone cores from which the blades were made, according to the IAA statement.

The findings were uncovered in a large IAA salvage excavation at the Naẖal Qomem site (also known as Gat-Govrin, Zeita), funded by the Israel Lands Authority, before the construction of a new Kiryat Gat neighborhood named Carmei Gat.

"Although evidence of t...