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Michael, Noé David: Settlement Patterns in the Northern Negev from the Hellenistic through the Early Islamic Periods, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1121

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https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1121
ISBN 978-3-96929-195-5 (PDF)

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09/02/2022

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Noé David Michael

Settlement Patterns in the Northern Negev from the Hellenistic through the Early Islamic Periods

This research examines the long-term settlement history of the northern Negev, on the edge of the Roman Empire from origins prior to the empire in the Hellenistic period, through times of peak habitation in the Byzantine period, and on to the decline in population at the end of the first millennium CE. The ecological constraints of the semi-desert region are explored, as are issues of geographic variability and climatic change. The book draws on the great potential of Geographic Information Systems to synthesize the numerous large surveys undertaken in the region, calibrated chronologically by reference to excavations with greater chronological resolution.

Noé D. Michael is a research archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority. He received his MA at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and a second MA at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. Later, he completed a doctorate in Archeology at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His areas of interest focuses on settlement patterns, population shifts and settlement archaeology from Classical antiquity to the Early Medieval Period in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
a-IV
Acknowledgments
V
Table of Contents
VII-X
List of Figures
XI-XIII
List of Tables
XV
Abbreviations
XVII
Abstract
XIX-XXVIII
1 Introduction
1-8
2 History of research of the northern Negev
9-12
3 Environmental background
13-21
4 Methodology
23-45
5 Western study area: Nahal Besor
47-82
6 Central study area: Be’er Sheva and its surroundings
85-138
7 Eastern study area
139-169
8 Byzantine population, land use, and the connection between settlements in the northern Negev
171-187
9 The dynamics of settlement patterns in the northern Negev
189-212
10 Conclusions
213-217
Appendix 1-6
219-310
Bibliography
311-339

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