Edomite cooking pots were found in Strata of the 8th- 7th century BCE in sites in Beersheba valley. Because they resemble similar cooking pots found at Edom, they are considered in research to be of Edomite origin and imported from Edom.  This assumption is reconsider on the basis of petrographic analyses of such cooking pots from Tel Malḥata, Ḥorvat Uza and Ḥorvat Qitmit conducted by Prof. Yuval Goren at the Laboratory for Comparative Microarchaeology and Metal Conservation at the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University. The results indicate that the same clay was used for the manufacture of Edomite cooking pots, as well as for other vessels and cooking-pot types of the 8th-7th  centuries BCE  from the sites mentioned above and from Tel Beersheba. Aroer, and Kadesh-Barnea. This fact attests to a long tradition of local manufacture probably utilizing raw material from the vicinity of the Northern Negev  rather than the Edomite plateau.

 It is now clear from the relative frequencies at Tel Malḥata and Qitmit, that Edomite cooking pots comprise the majority of the cooking-pot assemblage. We must change our preconception that all the Edomite cooking pots were produced in Edom and imported to the Negev sites, and consider that many were locally made in the southeastern Beersheba Valley.

Finely, Based on the fact that Edomite cooking-pots are common  at Tel Malhata already in in  the 8^th century BCE, and based on resemblance in figurines style, and  and some pottery types , a date of the first half of the 7^th century  BCE,  is suggested for  the Edomite shrine of Horvat Qitmit.