Herbivore livestock dung has been identified in archaeological sites around the world.
Focusing on dung from the ubiquitous Old World herbivorous domesticates–sheep, goats …

A key question in archaeobotany concerns the role of herbivore dung in contributing plant
remains to archaeobotanical assemblages. This issue has been discussed for at least 40 …

In this paper, we present a history of pastoralism in the ancient Near East from the Neolithic
through the Bronze Age. We describe the accretional development of pastoral technologies …

Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

The Negev Highlands (southern Israel) is an arid zone characterized by settlement
oscillations. One settlement peak occurred in the early Iron Age IIA (late 10th and early 9th …

Eurasian mobile pastoralists living in semiarid environments focus on specific locations on
the landscape where pasture resources and water are available. Ecotones–or intermediary …

Dung, macroscopically recognisable as such or not, can more commonly be found in
archaeological contexts than is perhaps realised. Up to now, identification of dung to the …

Spread throughout the deserts of the southern Levant are numerous triangular-shaped
stone structures known as kites. Ancient kites are built of two long converging low stone …

This paper presents preliminary results from an ethnoarchaeological study of animal
husbandry in the modern village of Bestansur, situated in the lower Zagros Mountains of …

Since the early days of biblical archaeology, the prevailing perception of nomads has been
of people incapable of forming strong political entities, whose influence upon the course of …