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

Antiquity

Volumn 77, Issue 298, 2003, Pages 749-760

  Rosen, Steven A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Early Bronze Age; Negev; Nomadism; Pastoralism; Periphery; Southern Levant

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; NOMADIC PEOPLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 0346334171     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0006169X     Document Type: Article

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