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 …
In social, economic, and cultural terms, the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire was vastly complex, which has fueled considerable debate among scholars concerning the nature of …
Author contribution: the idea for this article emerged from extensive discussions at the twiceyearly International Mediterranean Survey Workshops. Bintliff and Attema took the lead …
Gully incision has been eroding the alluvial sediments and loess soils deposited and developed along the valleys in the arid and semiarid regions of Israel. This phenomenon is …
The Negev Highlands in southern Israel are currently under an erosive regime causing degradation of soil and vegetation; a process which has often been attributed to land …
Animals have been used to human advantage for thousands of years.'Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel'presents an analysis of caprines and cattle husbandry in the Southern …
Y Tepper, N Porat, G Bar-Oz - Journal of Arid Environments, 2020 - Elsevier
Ancient agricultural systems in the Negev Desert preserves abundant evidence of dryland farming from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. These systems consist of …
DH Butler, ZC Dunseth, Y Tepper, T Erickson-Gini… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Sustainable resource management is of central importance among agrarian societies in marginal drylands. In the Negev Desert, Israel, research on agropastoral resource …
KW Butzer - Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World …, 1997 - Springer
Between about 2300 and 2000 BCE there was widespread sociopolitical devolution in the Near East. Tell Leilan, the particular case in point, was abandoned after deposition of …