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

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.)

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