Beyond the Desert and the Sown

Settlement Intensification in Late Prehistoric Southeastern Arabia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15914945
AutoresPeter Magee (0000-0003-2986-426X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen347
Páginas83-105
Fecha de publicación2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-097X • E-ISSN: 2161-8062
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/basor25067023
OpenAlexW1570769537
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas10

Arabia lies outside the focus of most archaeologists working in western Asia and is considered to have been a periphery in the past and therefore peripheral to contemporary research interests. The reasons for this include generalized assumptions about human-environmental dynamics and a belief in the necessity of foreign intervention as a spur for innovation and change in arid environments. In this paper, these two assumptions are examined, and a case study from southeastern Arabia is presented which details evidence for indigenous adaptation and a concomitant emergence of political and economic complexity in the early first millennium B.C

Adaptation (eye · Ancient history · Archaeology · Arid · Desert (philosophy · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Human settlement · Indigenous · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Prehistory · Settlement (finance · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History