[Avodah] Archaeologists discover 7, 000-year-old Jerusalem settlement

[Lisa Liel via Avodah]

On 2/19/2016 6:41 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> : On 02/19/2016 06:29 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> :> Tin is too ductile, it would have to be a tin alloy.
>
> : Tin is less ductile than gold, and yet they had gold keilim.
> : And pewter for tableware was 99% tin and 1% copper.
>
> I could accept that bedil means pewter, which I hadn't realized was that
> old.
>
> We need to do something with the etymology, though.

Why?  What's the etymology of barzel?

Lisa