The Camel and the Wheel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5069296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Von Sivers |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163 |
| Publication date | 1978-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The camel and the wheel, Richard W Bulliet, 1975 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/600974 |
| OpenAlex | W2120692490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel husbandry, Bulliet explores the implications for the region's economic and social development during the Middle Ages and into modern times
Animal Diversity and Health Studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History
Conquest and commercial space
Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages
Introduction
Conclusion A changing world
“Accepting all comers”
Camels, Copper and Donkeys in the Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant
‘When elephants battle, the grass suffers.’ Power, ivory and the Syrian elephant
Xenophon's Arabia
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Camels in the Assyrian Bas-Reliefs
The political economy of technology adoption
The pencil, the pin, the table, the bowl and the wheel
Totemic Views in the Anthroponomical Picture of the World
Mapping the history of sailing
Contracting caravans
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
From Polis to Madina” Revisited – Urban Change in Byzantine and early Islamic Palestine
Knowledge of the Art of Governance
The Arabs and the Colossus
Hemispheric Integration, 500-1500 C.E
The Somali and the Camel
Adaptations to Climatic Variability
Priests, soldiers, and administrators
The camel remains from site HD-6 (Ra's al-Hadd, Sultanate of Oman)
Caravans, camel wrestling and cowrie shells
Pre- and Early-Roman Roads of Asia Minor. The Persian Royal Road
Lactose malabsorption reconsidered
Imperial Roads Across and Trade Routes Beyond the Roman Provinces of Judaea-Palaestina and Arabia
The Iron Age "Fortresses" of the Negev Highlands
The Introduction of Domestic Camels to the Southern Levant
Epidemic disease in central Syria in the late sixth century Some new insights from the verse of Ḥassān ibn Thābit
Bactrians and dromedaries
Mixed results of seven methods for organic residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known foodstuff
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A very large camel from the upper pleistocene of the Negev desert
The Camel in Arabia—A direct radiocarbon date, calibrated to about 7000 BC
The Changing Role of Camels among the Bedouin of the Negev
Incense, Camels and Collared Rim Jars
The Emerging Picture of Prehistoric Arabia
Crossing the Euphrates in antiquity
The secondary exploitation of animals in the Old World
From Baghdad to London
A Passion for Cultural Difference. Archaeology and Ethnicity of the Southern Levant
Recent archaeological research and radiocarbon dates from Eastern Africa
Environment and Culture
Class Structure and Political Power in Iran Since 1796
Camels, Wagons, and the Ottoman State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Uneven Age of Speed
Cultural Imperialism and Nationalism
A New Perspective on Rome's Desert Frontier
Peasants, Pastoralists, and Pax Romana
Processes of Sedentarization and Nomadization in the History of Sinai and the Negev
Nomads in Archaeology
Genetic variation in the enigmatic Altaian Kazakhs of South‐Central Russia
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World
Crusader Castles and Modern Histories
Africa
Armenia and the eastern marches
Regional study
The late Sasanian Near East
Conclusion
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Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
Modern approaches to early Islamic history
Trade and Geography in the Spread of Islam
Bibliography of Periodical Literature
The Role of Technology in the African past
Wheeled transport in pre-colonial West Africa
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Rats, Communications, and Plague
Material Culture and Geography
Odum's concept of the Technicways
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |