Dating of Iron Age Agriculture in the Negev Highlands: A Response to Shahack-Gross and Finkelstein

Hendrik J. Bruins; Johannes Van Der Plicht

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Dating of Iron Age Agriculture in the Negev Highlands: A Response to Shahack-Gross and Finkelstein

Hendrik J. Bruins, Johannes Van Der Plicht

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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Abstract

In this response to the reply by Shahack-Gross and Finkelstein (2017), we present additional data of our research at Horvat Haluqim. This includes phytolith percentages and multicellular phytolith stomata in a thin section of a layer in Terraced Field 12, dated by radiocarbon (¹⁴C) to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age. We also show thin-section evidence of aggrading sediment laminations in this terraced field. A new ¹⁴C date is given of the Early Islamic Period in Terraced Field 7, as differences in terrace wall architecture are highlighted. We revisit the interpretation by Shahack-Gross and Finkelstein in relation to herd management. Our ¹⁴C dates attest that terrace agriculture based on runoff/floodwater irrigation occurred in the Negev Highlands during several periods, including the Iron Age.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1233-1239
Number of pages	7
Journal	Radiocarbon
Volume	59
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2017.57
State	Published - 1 Aug 2017

Keywords

AMS dating
Negev Desert
microarchaeology
runoff/floodwater
terrace agriculture

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Archaeology
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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