Title
Beyond the Desert and the Sown: Settlement Intensification in Late Prehistoric Southeastern Arabia
Document Type
Article
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Title
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Volume
347
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
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.
Publisher's Statement
© 2007 American Schools of Oriental Research. All rights reserved. Republished here by permission of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Citation
Magee, Peter. 2007. Beyond the Desert and the Sown: Settlement Intensification in Late Prehistoric Southeastern Arabia. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 347:83-105.
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