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Author Rosen, Steven

Title Revolutions in the Desert : the Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Southern Levant
Published Walnut Creek : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Beyond History: The Importance of an Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism; An Introductory Mythology; The Role of Archaeology; The Goals of This Study; A Note on the Chronological Framework; 2 The Problem of Domestication; The Range of Domesticates; Identifying Domestication; Herd Animals in the Near East: A Preview to the Archaeological Sequence; 3 The Problems of Definition: Variability in Pastoral Adaptations; Introduction; Herds, Other Animals, and Their Exploitation; Economy; Migrations and Seasonality
The Structures of Pastoral Nomadic SocietyThe Problem of Definition over Time; General Notes on Origins; Baselines, Fission, Adoption, and Economics; Issues of Causality; Summary; 4 Invisibility and Visibility: A Background to the Archaeology of Pastoral Nomadism; Why We Have Not Seen the Nomads; The Structure of the Discipline; The Misapprehension of Mobile Pastoralism; How to See Nomads; Ancient Texts and Nomads; Ethnography, Ethnology, and the Study of Ancient Nomads; The Implications of Archaeological Methods; Integrating Texts, Ethnography, and Archaeology
5 The Environmental Background to the Rise of Pastoral Nomadism in the Southern Levantine DesertsIntroduction; Paleoenvironments and Climatic Change; The Early Holocene; The Middle Holocene; The Chalcolithic Period/Middle Timnian; The Bronze Age (Late Timnian, Terminal Timnian, and Second Millennium BCE); The First Millennium BCE; The First Millennium CE; The Implications of Climatic Fluctuations; 6 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Baseline: The Last Hunter-Gatherers in the Desert; Goats in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Heartland; The Origins of the Negev PPNB; Subsistence in the Desert in the PPNB
Architecture and Material CultureSociety in the Desert PPNB; Summary; 7 The Earliest Herder-Gatherers: The Adoption of Domesticated Animals in the Desert Periphery; Introduction; The Chrono-Cultural Framework; The Earliest Evidence; The First Desert Pastoralists: A Review Discussion; 8 Revolution in the Desert: The Timnian Culture Complex and the Implications of Systematic Herding; Introduction; The Timnian Culture Complex; Definitions; Domestic Architecture and Settlement; Subsistence; Cult and Mortuary Sites; Material Culture; Rock Art
Revolution in the Desert: Integrating Processes in the Timnian Culture ComplexConclusions: The Rise of Desert Tribal Society; 9 Another Revolution: The Late Timnian, the Early Bronze Age, and the Rise of Economic Asymmetry; Introduction; The Late Timnian: A Description; Domestic Architecture and Settlement; Subsistence Systems; Cult and Mortuary Sites; Mobility and Seasonality; Material Culture; Pastoral Nomadism and the Rise of Economic Asymmetry; Demography and Social Organization; Economy; Multi-Resource Nomadism, Core and Periphery, and the Rise of Economic Asymmetry
Notes Epilogue: The Terminal Timnian and Collapse in the Desert
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1315399938