Abstract
An historical overview of the idea of a Timnian culture is presented, including discussion of early definitions. The final systematization of the Timnian Culture Complex, and the associated synthesis of its material culture corpus, has three primary goals: 1. To establish basic continuities between the protohistoric cultures/assemblages of the Negev, and by extension those of adjacent desert regions, by organizing the archaeological materials into a coherent and consistent sequence; 2. To demonstrate the essential independence of the protohistoric desert cultural trajectory from that of settled zone societies; and 3. To offer an explanatory framework for these two inter-related phenomena by attaching the long-term development of the Timnian Culture Complex to the dynamics of the evolving desert pastoral societies.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 105294 |
Journal | Journal of Arid Environments |
Volume | 226 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2025 |
Keywords
- Negev
- Nomadism
- Protohistory
- Systematics
- Timnian culture
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Ecology
- Earth-Surface Processes