The Tel Aviv University professor proposes that just because early Israelite kings were nomadic doesn't mean they didn't control complex societies. Look at Genghis Khan

Scientific study of early copper smelting shows necessity was not the mother of invention, but rather human intellectual curiosity and the desire to show off

Advances in copper mining in southern Israel's Arava Valley in 11th century BCE, after infusion of Egyptian know-how, help explain emergence of Edomite kingdom, study finds