1st Edition
Revolutions in the Desert The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Southern Levant
By Steven Rosen
Copyright 2017
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left few remains appropriate for analytic study. Few prior studies have approached the deeper past of desert nomadic societies, which have been primarily recognized only as a complement to the study of sedentary... Read more
1. Beyond History: The Importance of an Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism
2. The Problem of Domestication
3. The Problems of Definition: Variability in Pastoral Adaptations
4. Invisibility and Visibility: A Background to the Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism
5. The Environmental Background to the Rise of Pastoral Nomadism in the Southern Levantine Deserts
6. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Baseline: The Last Hunter-Gatherers in the Desert
7. The Earliest Herder-Gatherers: The Adoption of Domesticated Animals in the Desert Periphery
8. Revolution in the Desert: the Timnian Culture Complex and the Implications of Systematic Herding
9. Another Revolution: the Late Timnian, the Early Bronze Age, and the Rise of Economic Asymmetry
10. Text and Relict: An Essay on the Archaeology of Desert Pastoralism in the Historic Periods in the Negev
11. Epilogue: An Archaeology of the End of Pastoral Nomadism
2. The Problem of Domestication
3. The Problems of Definition: Variability in Pastoral Adaptations
4. Invisibility and Visibility: A Background to the Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism
5. The Environmental Background to the Rise of Pastoral Nomadism in the Southern Levantine Deserts
6. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Baseline: The Last Hunter-Gatherers in the Desert
7. The Earliest Herder-Gatherers: The Adoption of Domesticated Animals in the Desert Periphery
8. Revolution in the Desert: the Timnian Culture Complex and the Implications of Systematic Herding
9. Another Revolution: the Late Timnian, the Early Bronze Age, and the Rise of Economic Asymmetry
10. Text and Relict: An Essay on the Archaeology of Desert Pastoralism in the Historic Periods in the Negev
11. Epilogue: An Archaeology of the End of Pastoral Nomadism
Biography
Steven A. Rosen holds the Canada Chair in Near Eastern Archaeology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published five previous books, along with over 150 professional papers, and he is also a member of the scientific board of Paléorient, a member of the board of directors of the Israel Prehistoric Society, and sits on the Archaeological Council of Israel. He has conducted fieldwork in Israel and Turkey, including a number of excavations and surveys in the Negev region.
