Visitors
to the San Diego Museum of Man can travel back 6,000 years to the
pre-Biblical Middle East. Their time machine is a new exhibition
called "Journey to the Copper Age," curated by UC San Diego
archaeology professor Tom Levy. The show features relics uncovered
by Levy and other archaeologists on digs in Israel and Jordan since
the 1960s. Many of the items were uncovered at a site in Jordan,
Khirbat an-Nahas, where Levy and a team of UCSD graduate students
return every summer and fall to excavate the ruins of the largest,
ancient copper factorydating
back 3,000 years to the time of King David (see
May 2005 issue of @UCSD).
A 30-minute documentary also showcases the use
of a specific technique called the "lost wax" method to create
elaborate metal pieces such as a twin-headed ibex mace head found
in the Cave of the Treasure in the Negev desert. "Journey
to the Copper Age" is on display until February 2008. 
Contributors to Making Waves: Mario Aguilera, '89, Rex Graham, Raymond Hardie, Robert Monroe, Neda Oreizy, '08, Doug Ramsey
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