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The Negev in the Intermediate Bronze Age: Questions of Subsistence, Trade, and Status

The Negev in the Intermediate Bronze Age: Questions of Subsistence, Trade, and Status AbstractThe northern Negev—a region both geographically peripheral and environmentally marginal for human habitation—experienced increased settlement and activity in the Intermediate Bronze Age in the southern Levant (ca. 2500–2000/1950 BCE). Most interpretations link this phenomenon with Egyptian demand for copper and the accompanying development of trade networks that transported this valuable resource. However, the function of these networks, the subsistence of the peoples who operated them, and the social and economic systems that supported them remain unclear. This paper examines the means of subsistence and sustenance of the populations of these sites in the northern Negev, together with their role in supporting connections between Egypt and the southern Levant, and suggests that while their location may have been marginal, their identity and role in the social and economic system of the Intermediate Bronze Age southern Levant was not. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History de Gruyter

The Negev in the Intermediate Bronze Age: Questions of Subsistence, Trade, and Status

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History , Volume 9 (2): 21 – Nov 1, 2022

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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2328-9562
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2328-9562
DOI
10.1515/janeh-2021-0012
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Abstract

AbstractThe northern Negev—a region both geographically peripheral and environmentally marginal for human habitation—experienced increased settlement and activity in the Intermediate Bronze Age in the southern Levant (ca. 2500–2000/1950 BCE). Most interpretations link this phenomenon with Egyptian demand for copper and the accompanying development of trade networks that transported this valuable resource. However, the function of these networks, the subsistence of the peoples who operated them, and the social and economic systems that supported them remain unclear. This paper examines the means of subsistence and sustenance of the populations of these sites in the northern Negev, together with their role in supporting connections between Egypt and the southern Levant, and suggests that while their location may have been marginal, their identity and role in the social and economic system of the Intermediate Bronze Age southern Levant was not.

Journal

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Historyde Gruyter

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: southern Levant; Negev; Intermediate Bronze Age; copper; subsistence; marginality

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