Aaron J. Koller on the Incomplete Nature of the Archaeological Record in Relationship to Tools and Weapons in the Ancient Near East

  

There is the further complication that the archaeological record is incomplete. Tools are often reused, rehammered, and recast, their materials refabricated into other objects, and only the minority of implements that were produced and used in Iron Age Israel have been recovered. (Aaron J. Koller, The Semantic Field of Cutting Tools in Biblical Hebrew: The Interface of Philological, Semantic, and Archaeological Evidence [The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph 49; The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2013; repr., Eugene, Oreg.: Wipf and Stock, 2023], 3)