text: Extensive research has been carried out on the metallurgical material from Tell Hammeh. Both excavation and archaeometric analyses were carried out by Dr H.A. Veldhuijzen, first at Leiden University, then since 2001 at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, as a part of the joint excavations conducted by Yarmouk University and Leiden University and co-directed by Prof. Dr. Zeidan Kafafi and Dr. Gerrit Van der Kooij.