Is somebody watching you? Ancient surveillance systems in the southern Judean desert

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-89

  Yekutieli, Yuval ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Israel; Landscape archaeology; Negev; Panoptic surveillance; Roman

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; ROMAN ERA;

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

EID: 33749061111     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/jmea.2006.19.1.65     Document Type: Article

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