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Lead object on a wooden shaft in situ at Ashalim Cave in the northern Negev desert, Israel

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Radiocarbon dating of the shaft placed the object within the Late Chalcolithic period, in the late 5th millennium BCE (ca. 4300-4000 BCE). (Source: Yahalom-Mack N, Langgut D, Dvir O, et al. The earliest lead object in the levant. PLoS One 2015;10[12]:e0142948. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)