TY - BOOK
T1 - An investigation into early desert pastoralism
T2 - Excavations at the Camel Site, Negev
AU - Rosen, Steven A
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - Negev focuses on two primary purposes, one theoretical/methodological and the second substantive. Briefly stated, the book comprises a case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasonal encampment from this early period in the evolution of desert pastoral societies. It thus both demonstrates the feasibility of an archaeology of early mobile pastoralism and grapples with the basic anthropological and methodological issues surrounding the subject. Substantively, both the architectural and material culture assemblages uncovered constitute the first detailed analysis of this early desert culture and include materials previously unreported for the region and period. Historically, the Camel Site is placed in a larger perspective of the beginnings of multiresource nomadism in relation to the rise of complex societies.
AB - Negev focuses on two primary purposes, one theoretical/methodological and the second substantive. Briefly stated, the book comprises a case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasonal encampment from this early period in the evolution of desert pastoral societies. It thus both demonstrates the feasibility of an archaeology of early mobile pastoralism and grapples with the basic anthropological and methodological issues surrounding the subject. Substantively, both the architectural and material culture assemblages uncovered constitute the first detailed analysis of this early desert culture and include materials previously unreported for the region and period. Historically, the Camel Site is placed in a larger perspective of the beginnings of multiresource nomadism in relation to the rise of complex societies.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhhhfv6
DO - https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhhhfv6
M3 - Book
SN - 9781931745840
VL - 69
T3 - UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press Monographs
BT - An investigation into early desert pastoralism
PB - Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
CY - Los Angeles
ER -