Early Bronze Age IV Settlement Pattern of the Negev and Sinai Deserts: View from Small Marginal Temporary Sites

Haiman, Moti

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“…The author employs locational analysis to describe the growth of the state and rank-size and span of control (at several scales) to show increasing integration. Haiman (1996) provides a simple but elegant illustration from the Bronze Age Negev and Sinai in which small, temporary, perhaps nomadic sites were not situated or oriented with regard to particular environmental resources but instead to larger permanent sites. In the Philippines Junker (2002a, b) used systematic survey coverage to address controversies about the antiquity of foragers in tropical forests (she shows that foraging is old there) and the relationship of foragers to horticulturalists and the chiefdoms involved in coastal long-distance trade.…”

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Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Kowalewski

2008

J Archaeol Res

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This is a critical review of regional settlement pattern archaeology published in the last decade. The regional approach proves to be highly productive of new ideas and lasting results. Cultural resource/heritage databases are increasingly important. Notable advances have been made in regional studies of Paleolithic and Holocene foragers, the reciprocal relations between Neolithic communities and their regional societies, and in understanding states and empires. There are new research potentials in comparisons, macroregional analysis, long-term change, and alternative pathways. Research designs should specify systematic coverage at the regional scale and carry out spatial analysis in which social groups are the primary focus.

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Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Kowalewski

2008

J Archaeol Res

107

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“…9) do not allow for distinguishing 465 between production phases within the EB IV. The decrease in demand for copper 466 resulting from the demise of the Old Kingdom (contra Haiman, 1996) is reflected in this 467 limited and less integrated phase of production. 468 469…”

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Early Bronze Age copper production systems in the northern Arabah Valley: New insights from archaeomagnetic study of slag deposits in Jordan and Israel

Ben‐Yosef

Gidding

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Hoards of copper ingots found at sites throughout the southern Levant, and the recent discovery of an Intermediate Bronze Age copper production centre in Wadi Faynan, suggest that a developed copper trade economy supported the Negev settlement system (Goren 1996;Haiman 1996;Adams 2000;Levy et al 2002;Hauptmann, SchmittStrecker, Levy and Begemann 2015). These assumptions have been based primarily on macroarchaeological assemblages from a few excavated sites (e.g., mainly Kochavi 1967;Cohen and Dever 1978, 1979, 1981Cohen 1999;Saidel 2002;Saidel et al 2006;Dever 2014) and on ethnographic parallels to pre-modern Bedouin mode of life (e.g., Palmer 1871;Musil 1908;Marx 1967;Ginguld, Perevolotsky and Ungar 1997).…”

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“…They lack courtyards or open features (ibid. : 3), and appear to have no clear settlement plan (Cohen 1992;Haiman 1996contra Dever 1985. The permanency of activity at the central sites is debated (Haiman 1996contra Dever 2014.…”

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Geoarchaeological Investigation at the Intermediate Bronze Age Negev Highlands Site of Mashabe Sade

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Massive settlement activity characterizes the arid Negev Highlands during the Intermediate Bronze Age (ca. 2500(ca. -1950. However, the underlying subsistence basis of this population is poorly understood. Recent microarchaeological work at Iron Age sites in the Negev Highlands has shown the potential for recovering direct evidence for subsistence practices through analysis of the microscopic plant remains in degraded animal dung. Following these methods, this paper reports new macro-and microarchaeological results of two sites near Mashabe Sade: a central Intermediate Bronze Age site, and for comparison, an ephemeral site in the immediate vicinity. At the central site, dated to the Intermediate Bronze Age by pottery and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), evidence is absent for any sort of food production. In contrast, identification of ancient livestock dung at the ephemeral site suggests that it was sustained by animal husbandryyet the OSL results suggest these degraded dung deposits date to the Iron Age. Taken together, the Intermediate Bronze Age results from Mashabe Sade bolster arguments suggesting that central sites were supported mainly by trade and other alternative subsistence practices. Keywords Mashabe Sade, Negev Highlands, Intermediate Bronze Age, MicroarchaeologyAfter nearly a century of research, the Intermediate Bronze Age is still an enigmatic period in the settlement history of the southern Levant. Traditionally dated to ca. 2300-2000 BCE (e.g., Palumbo 2001), the Intermediate Bronze Age is characterized by the cessation of * Co-directors of the Negev Highlands Project. urban activity throughout the region, and a unique wave of settlement in the arid zones, especially the Negev Highlands. The impetus behind this dramatic settlement oscillation is unclear, though scholars have variously associated the phenomenon with changing political (e.g., Kochavi 1967), demographic (e.g., Kenyon 1951;Prag 1985), socio-economic (e.g., Dever 1980), and climatic conditions (e.g., Rosen 1987; Frumkin 2009).Until very recently, debate over the nature of the Intermediate Bronze Age had mellowed into a general consensus that the period was characterized in the north of modern Israel by a shift from urban life to rural agro-pastoralism (Finkelstein 1995: 88), and in the Negev, to subsistence practices characterized by animal husbandry and opportunistic agriculture (Dever 1985;Cohen 1999;Palumbo 2001). Hoards of copper ingots found at sites throughout the southern Levant, and the recent discovery of an Intermediate Bronze Age copper production centre in Wadi Faynan, suggest that a developed copper trade economy supported the Negev settlement system Recently, an analysis of radiocarbon determinations from secure archaeological contexts redated the Intermediate Bronze Age to ca. 2500-1950 BCE (Regev et al. 2012. This changes the equation between the Intermediate Bronze Age and Egyptian history and hence forces a re-evaluation of the Intermediate Bronze Age in general, and the role of Negev settlement systems wi...

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Early Bronze Age IV Settlement Pattern of the Negev and Sinai Deserts: View from Small Marginal Temporary Sites

Cited by 46 publications

References 5 publications

Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Regional Settlement Pattern Studies

Early Bronze Age copper production systems in the northern Arabah Valley: New insights from archaeomagnetic study of slag deposits in Jordan and Israel

Geoarchaeological Investigation at the Intermediate Bronze Age Negev Highlands Site of Mashabe Sade

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