Steven A Rosen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89926 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven A Rosen |
| NOMBRES | Steven A |
| APELLIDO | Rosen |
| FIRMA | ROSEN S A |
| AFILIACIONES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2792-8610 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 247 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Lithic Assemblage from ‘Uvda Valley Site 917 and its Spatial Implications
Computational flint refitting
Cairn fields and other megaliths as cultural markers in the southern Levantine deserts
Large cairn fields are outstanding features of the southern Levantine deserts, marking a shared set of burial practices in the proto-historic periods across the region spanning the Sinai Peninsula, the Negev, and the deserts of southern Jordan and north Arabia. Recent studies place the initial construction of the fields in the 6th millennium BCE, and stratigraphic excavation of the internal cists suggests continued use over the course of roughly …
Nomads in the Classical and Byzantine Near East
Mobile pastoralism in classical times in the Near East is a well-developed phenomenon, incorporating the basic domesticates of modern pastoral nomads in the region, including camels, goats, sheep, horses, and donkeys. Residential mobility in peripheral environments to exploit seasonally available resources (water, grazing) to support herds and distant markets structure the yearly cycle. Tribal organization characterizes most of these groups, alth…
Nabatean Tent Sites on the Ruhot Plain, Central Negev, and Nomadic Visibility
Nabatean campsites, reflecting the desert nomadic pastoral component of Nabatean society, constitute part of the larger and better-known Nabatean system of caravan routes and associated sites, in addition to village and urban centers dating between the late 4th century b.c.e. and the early 3rd century c.e. Campsites have rarely been explored in depth, although numerous small Nabatean camps and campsites have been registered in many surveys in the…
Shiqmim II
Cultic Activities at Mitzpe Shalem, Judean Desert
Analysis of the chipped stone assemblage from the late 4th-early 3rd cult site at Mitzpe Shalem in the Judean desert, with special focus on the lithic waste, offers insight into protohistoric cult practices. Specifically, special tools—tabular scrapers—were imported from the desert periphery, incised with symbolic markings, utilized most likely as ritual butchering knives, and then either deliberately shattered or resharpened and reused. However,…
A Tumulus with a View
Roy Galili, רועי גלילי, روعي جاليلي, Marie Anton, מארי אנטון, وماري أنطون, Julian Andrews, ג'וליאן אנדרוס, وجوليان أندروز, Rachel Mackel, רייצ'ל מקל, وراشيل ماكيل, Eliyahu Cohen-Sason, אליהו כהן ששון, وإلياهو كوهين ساسون, Steven A Rosen, סטיב רוזן, ستيف روزين, A Tumulus with a View - רגמים ונופיהם, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך נ"ד (2024), pp. 123-152
Pastoral diversities
The Constructed Desert
Past and present cultures perceive their natural landscape as an integral and vital component of their complex worlds, while particular landscape features and associated monuments built in selected locales become sacred and revered through stories, legends and rituals embedded in mundane and ceremonial events. The hyper-arid Har Tzuriaz area in the southern Negev, Israel, offers a case study of culture-geographic continuities over a chronological…
Changing Identity in a Changing World
The Petrographic Study of the Pottery Assemblage from Naḥal Tsafit and Its Implications for Chalcolithic Copper Production Systems
Petrographic analysis of ceramics from the Naḥal Tsafit (ca. 4000 b.c.e.) campsite located in the Rotem Plain of the eastern Negev reflects pottery origins both in the Hebron Hills and environs, and most notably in the Faynan region. Attributed to the Chalcolithic Middle Timnian pastoral culture, mostly in deserts and contemporary with the Ghassulian culture, the analysis indicates connections to the copper source region in Faynan. Given the noma…
Before God
Archaeological remains are a trove of potential data which, together with the study of ritual, enable reconstruction and evaluation of social and religious structures and complexity. Concentrating on the Timnian culture (sixth to late third millennium BCE) of the Southern Levant deserts, we review the changes that took place with the adoption of the domesticated goat, noting the contrast between habitation sites and ritual related megalithic monu…
After 1918
With the explicit and specific focus on the British Mandate period in Palestine, the eight articles in this issue of JEMAHS explore a period little investigated in the archaeology of the region. The explanation for this dearth of study is probably best found in the historical origins of archaeological practice in the region, motivated first by biblical connections and later by state building and the construction of identity, to neither of which t…
Nomads in the Near East
Heat treated or not heat treated
Technological Insights on Philistine Culture
More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their material culture. Concurrently, our understanding of the origins, developmental processes, and socio-political matrix of this fascinating culture has undergone major changes. Among other facets, Philistine technology has been discussed, but in our opinion, a broad view of its importance for understanding Philistine culture is still lacking. The more than twenty…
Dynamics of Change in Flint Sickles of the Age of Metals
Flint sickle blades are traditionally considered significant hallmarks of the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Their morpho-typological transformations over time have been differently interpreted, but the idea that each sickle type would have been substituted by the following because of more effectiveness, permitting development and intensification of agricultural practices, is still dominant. Without denying the importance of these f…
From Stone to Metal
Trade Through the Desert
Caravan trade in the Near East, and in the Negev, is the culmination of millennia of cumulative social and technological development, essentially an expression of complex economy societies with large-scale markets. The origins of caravan trade systems are to be sought in the specifics of their historical circumstances. For example, Nabatean trade developed in the wake of the rise of market demand in the Classical Mediterranean for such goods as s…
Nomads in the Near East
The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist Economies in Jordan
The Archaeology of Agro-Pastoralist Economies in Jordan is comprised of three excellent analyses of botanical and faunal materials: (1) “Telling Seeds: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Tall al-‘Umayri, Jordan,” by Jennifer Ramsay and Natalie Mueller (1–26); (2) “Crop Storage and Animal Husbandry at Early Iron Age Khirbat al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya (Jordan): A Paleoethnobotanical Approach,” by Alan Farahani, Benjamin W. Porter, Hannah Huynh, and Bruce…
The Decline and Disappearance of Chipped-Stone Tools
Technological analyses of the lithic assemblage recovered from the excavations at Qubur el-Walaydah offer new insights into the nature of the specialized production system of sickle blades during the Late Bronze-Iron Age, and provide new data sets concerning the decline of chipped-stone technologies. Although the knapping technology used for the production of flint sickle segments was relatively simple, the spatial distribution of this system, th…
The Ecology of Pastoralism
Excavations in the Western Negev Highlands
Lithics after the Stone Age
chapter 1 Preface chapter 2 Lithic Analysis in the Metal Ages: A Preview chapter 3 Analytic Approaches chapter 4 A Typology of Stone Tools chapter 5 The Organization of Production and Distribution chapter 6 Function chapter 7 Style chapter 8 The End of the Stone Age chapter 9 References chapter 10 Index
Dung in the Desert
Dating the Ramat Saharonim Late Neolithic desert cult site
Absolute Dating of the Late Bronze to Iron Age Transition and the Appearance of Philistine Culture in Qubur el-Walaydah, Southern Levant
The Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age transition involves profound cultural and political changes in the southern Levant. The transition is dated to the 12th century BC, based on archaeological artifacts and historical documents. A more precise absolute date for this transition for the southern Levant based on radiocarbon is difficult since the 14 C calibration curve reduces precision significantly due to wiggles that form an approximately 200-yr-l…
The Adoption of Metallurgy in the Levant
The Early Bronze Age Blade Workshop at Titriş Höyük
An Early Date for Gaza Ware from the Northern Negev
La presence de potteries de la guerre de Gaza sur les sites archeologiques recents du Neguev sont un element de datation assez precis de cette guerre pour laquelle nous avons peu tres peu d'information. Etude et datation de deux tessons contemporains de la guerre de Gaza provenant du site de Beer Sheva. La couche de sediments dont ils sont issus a ete datee par analyse d'epimerisation aminoacide (amino acid epimerization analysis) des escargots q…
Notes on the Origins of Pastoral Nomadism
Long distance trinket trade
Early multi-resource nomadism
Excavations at the Camel Site, in the Negev, provide evidence of desert cottage industries making (and probably trading) beads and millstones in the Early Bronze Age. But these were people for whom nomadism was the 'default lifestyle
Flint Sickle-blades of the Late Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods in Israel
Although the analysis of lithic implements in the proto historic and early historic periods in the Levant has usually been relegated to appendices of monographs or to footnotes in reports, the study of these implements can make a genuine contribution to the archaeology of these periods. The typology of flint sickle blades presented below is intended to establish the basic chronology of sickle types, and hopefully to eliminate some of the confusio…
From Stone to Metal
The Camel and the Tent
A Roman-period Pastoral Tent Camp in the Negev, Israel
Giv'ot Reved is a pastoral camp of the Roman period located on the SE periphery of the Roman Empire. Excavation and analysis demonstrate both the legitimacy of an archaeology of nomadism and the efficacy of such studies. On a more specific level, although pastoral nomads are mentioned in numerous contemporary (and biased) texts, the archaeology of such sites provides an important and little exploited complement to such historical sources
Technological Insights on Philistine Culture
More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their material culture. Concurrently, our understanding of the origins, developmental processes, and socio-political matrix of this fascinating culture has undergone major changes. Among other facets, Philistine technology has been discussed, but in our opinion, a broad view of its importance for understanding Philistine culture is still lacking. The more than twenty…
Beyond Milk and Meat
Analysis of chipped stone assemblages from the Camel Site In the Central Negev, Israel, shows evidencefor semi-specialized production ojbeads (as rejlected In mlcrollthlc drills and other waste) and grinding stones (as rejlected In a full complement of sandstone reduction waste). The association of a non-lntenslve production system with a peripheral nomadic encampment, along with evidence for trade In these goods with the urban systemfarther nort…
Byzantine Nomadism in the Negev
Recent intensive and systematic survey in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel, has revealed the existence of numerous archaeological sites dating to the Byzantine period. Unlike most previous discoveries and studies of this period in the Negev that relate to urban systems and their associated sophisticated desert agricultural technologies, the sites discussed here appear to be unrelated to agricultural exploitation. It is suggested that they refl…
Dynamics of Change in Flint Sickles of the Age of Metals
Flint sickle blades are traditionally considered significant hallmarks of the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Their morpho-typological transformations over time have been differently interpreted, but the idea that each sickle type would have been substituted by the following because of more effectiveness, permitting development and intensification of agricultural practices, is still dominant. Without denying the importance of these f…
Basic Instabilities? Climate and Culture in the Negev over the Long Term
Settlement systems in the Negev, Israel's southern desert, over the past 15,000 years show cycles of demographic rise and decline. Examining site frequency graphs based on systematic survey of 100 km 2 grids in different areas and at different geographic scales, these demographic cycles should be tied to patterns of geographic expansions and contractions deriving from different culture‐geographic sources. Together this variability suggests instab…
Arrowheads, Axes, Ad Hoc, and Sickles
Analyses of chipped stone industries in the Near East in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the past two decades have addressed major issues of evolving economic specialization, technological and functional evolution, and geographic variability. In spite of this, significant questions remain open, including explanations of geographic/functional variability between regions (especially in the distribution of projectile points), the nature and diffusion of…
The Origins of the Food-producing Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The formation of the productive economy is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Of this set of problems, the author addresses one that has received comparatively little attention, the socioeconomic prerequisites for agriculture. He is interested primarily in the processes occurring within a community of hunter-gatherers during the transition to agricuture, in other words, in the social aspects of this phenomenon. The sources of the productive …
The Constructed Desert
Past and present cultures perceive their natural landscape as an integral and vital component of their complex worlds, while particular landscape features and associated monuments built in selected locales become sacred and revered through stories, legends and rituals embedded in mundane and ceremonial events. The hyper-arid Har Tzuriaz area in the southern Negev, Israel, offers a case study of culture-geographic continuities over a chronological…
Heat treated or not heat treated
What Mean These Stones
The Decline and Disappearance of Chipped-Stone Tools
Technological analyses of the lithic assemblage recovered from the excavations at Qubur el-Walaydah offer new insights into the nature of the specialized production system of sickle blades during the Late Bronze-Iron Age, and provide new data sets concerning the decline of chipped-stone technologies. Although the knapping technology used for the production of flint sickle segments was relatively simple, the spatial distribution of this system, th…
Flint Sickle-blades of the Late Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods in Israel
Although the analysis of lithic implements in the proto historic and early historic periods in the Levant has usually been relegated to appendices of monographs or to footnotes in reports, the study of these implements can make a genuine contribution to the archaeology of these periods. The typology of flint sickle blades presented below is intended to establish the basic chronology of sickle types, and hopefully to eliminate some of the confusio…
Flint Sickle-blades of the Late Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods in Israel
Flint Sickle-blades of the Late Protohistoric and Early Historic Periods in Israel
Tabular Scraper Trade
The Adoption of Metallurgy in the Levant
The Origins of the Food-producing Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The formation of the productive economy is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Of this set of problems, the author addresses one that has received comparatively little attention, the socioeconomic prerequisites for agriculture. He is interested primarily in the processes occurring within a community of hunter-gatherers during the transition to agricuture, in other words, in the social aspects of this phenomenon. The sources of the productive …
A Note on Frequencies, Proportions and Diversity
In a recent article based on ethnoarchaeological research in Mesoamerica, Cannon has suggested that presence/absence statistics are generally preferable to percentage statistics. The case presented is weak, and seems only to reflect a specific instance rather than a general rule
Demographic Trends in the Negev Highlands
Recent intensive archaeological reconnaissance in the Negev has provided a new, sound data base for the analysis of human adaptation in desert zones. The apparently cyclic nature of the rise and fall of Negev cultures is the result of basic tensions in man-land relationships in a marginal ecological setting. Other factors, including technological innovation, external cultural influences, and internal social development, are also examined for thei…
Byzantine Nomadism in the Negev
Recent intensive and systematic survey in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel, has revealed the existence of numerous archaeological sites dating to the Byzantine period. Unlike most previous discoveries and studies of this period in the Negev that relate to urban systems and their associated sophisticated desert agricultural technologies, the sites discussed here appear to be unrelated to agricultural exploitation. It is suggested that they refl…
Abstracts — Second Symposium on Upper Paleolithic
Pottery Neolithic Flint Artifacts from Tel Lachish
Notes on the Origins of Pastoral Nomadism
Pottery Neolithic Flint Artifacts from Tel Lachish
(1989). Pottery Neolithic Flint Artifacts from Tel Lachish. Tel Aviv: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 193-196
A History of Archaeological Thought . Bruce G. Trigger
Nomads in Archaeology
In a recent paper, Finkelstein and Perevolotsky (1990) suggest that chronological gaps in the archaeological record from the Negev and Sinai are the result of nomadization and consequential decrease in archaeological visibility. They claim that archaeology as a discipline is ineffective in dealing with the ephemeral remains left by nomads. However, using appropriate field and analytic methods, often derived from prehistoric archaeology, the archa…
A Roman-period Pastoral Tent Camp in the Negev, Israel
Giv'ot Reved is a pastoral camp of the Roman period located on the SE periphery of the Roman Empire. Excavation and analysis demonstrate both the legitimacy of an archaeology of nomadism and the efficacy of such studies. On a more specific level, although pastoral nomads are mentioned in numerous contemporary (and biased) texts, the archaeology of such sites provides an important and little exploited complement to such historical sources
An Early Date for Gaza Ware from the Northern Negev
La presence de potteries de la guerre de Gaza sur les sites archeologiques recents du Neguev sont un element de datation assez precis de cette guerre pour laquelle nous avons peu tres peu d'information. Etude et datation de deux tessons contemporains de la guerre de Gaza provenant du site de Beer Sheva. La couche de sediments dont ils sont issus a ete datee par analyse d'epimerisation aminoacide (amino acid epimerization analysis) des escargots q…
The Chipped Stone Assemblage from Hartuv
The chipped stone assemblage from Hartuv is comprised of three basic components: flake tools and associated waste; blade tools, both locally produced and imported; and tabular scrapers. There is little evidence of on-site manufacture. The sickle tools differ somewhat from most Early Bronze Age assemblages but otherwise the assemblage is functionally, technologically, and typologically typical of the Early Bronze Age
What Mean These Stones
Losing Ground
Lithics after the Stone Age
Natufian Chipped Lithic Assemblage from Sunakh near Petra, Southern Jordan
located on the footslopes of the al-Bara Massif in south central Jordan, not far from Petra. The short monograph reviewed here is a detailed techno-typological study of the roughly 5000 chipped stone artifacts recovered during investigation of the site. The descriptive analysis is exhaustive and undeniably competent. All major indices are presented, as are important technological data like metric distributions of different artifact classes, inclu…
Beyond Milk and Meat
Analysis of chipped stone assemblages from the Camel Site In the Central Negev, Israel, shows evidencefor semi-specialized production ojbeads (as rejlected In mlcrollthlc drills and other waste) and grinding stones (as rejlected In a full complement of sandstone reduction waste). The association of a non-lntenslve production system with a peripheral nomadic encampment, along with evidence for trade In these goods with the urban systemfarther nort…
Book Notes
Early Bronze Age Urban Structure at Tıtrıs Höyük, Southeastern Turkey
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