The Timnian culture complex in the southern Levantine deserts: A rationale

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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 languageEnglish
Article number105294
JournalJournal of Arid Environments
Volume226
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2025

Keywords

  • Negev
  • Nomadism
  • Protohistory
  • Systematics
  • Timnian culture

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

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