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far away in the Middle East a revolution
 was starting which would end this vision

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of community forever

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human identity would never be the same 
again in the Wadi Hanan in southern Jordan

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green malachite was exposed by flash
 flooding in a river bid

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it's one of the sources of copper

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the thing that's fairly clear about 
Malicard Wall is that there was a lot of

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it around in places like what you find 
in

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it's one of the predominant rocks anyone 
that might fire a place and what we find

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in and out of the green rocks was going 
to realize that this stuff melted at a

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pretty low temperatures and it wouldn't 
have been too long and i had a fashion

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this melted stone into a variety of
forms and better steal you could do it

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over and over again

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the miners were inspired by the color they grounded it into peace for jewelry

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without smelting it but they had 
customers from the other side of the

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Dead Sea who wanted huge quantities 

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they have a monopoly that is the people 
living in the Bear Shovel Valley about a

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hundred and fifty kilometers from here 
over there on metal production ie they

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would send their miners their traders 
over here to procure the ore to mine the

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ore and then put it on the donkeys and
 sort of schlep it back across the desert

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- the Bear Shovel Valley
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but these traders had a secret

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the exact way of heating the ore to
 create something fabulous by

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superheating with blown pipes they 
created the first true smelted metal

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copper was used to make everything from 
ornaments to daggers

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not only that it could be inversely
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we are actually finding copper objects abandoned which
 is very strange

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copper and crucibles and the nozzles of 
bellows which shows that they're

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actually making those objects on that 
site and they're a long way from any

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copper the nearest copper is over in the
 Wadi Arab in Jordan

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the other side of the Dead Sea 
and the other side of the Wadi Arab and

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there we've got people who are
apparently mining and smelting copper

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and it's hardly anybody living there to
use the stuff so presumably again we've

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got networks and people living in 
southern Israel know how to get the

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materials they need from people who live 
in what is today inside Jordan and

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people inside Jordan were sitting on 
the top of metal resources know that

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there are people living over to the west 
of them quite a long way away 

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several days walk

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but does there is a market as 
we would say in terms of our modern

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economics that they know that those
people over there who

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who want the stuff

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smelted copper was the first metal and
 very exotic

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it was a prime trade item and the prime
 traders were the rustle dealers

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they love the chance to show off and copper
could be cast to such wonderful shapes