Early multi-resource nomadism: Excavations at the Camel Site in the central Negev

Excavations at the Camel Site, in the Negev, provide evidence of desert cottage industries making (and probably trading) beads and millstones in the Early Bronze Age. But these were people for whom nomadism was the ‘default lifestyle’.

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Published in:Antiquity 2003-12, Vol.77 (298), p.749-760
Main Author: Rosen, Steven A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeological evidence
Archaeological sites
Archaeology
Asia
Bronze Age
Early Bronze Age
Excavations
Historic artifacts
Israel
Metal Ages
Near East
Negev
Nomadism
Nomads
Pastoralism
periphery
Prehistory
Prehistory and protohistory
southern Levant
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Summary:Excavations at the Camel Site, in the Negev, provide evidence of desert cottage industries making (and probably trading) beads and millstones in the Early Bronze Age. But these were people for whom nomadism was the ‘default lifestyle’.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X0006169X