Crossing the Rift: Resources, Settlements Patterns and Interaction in the Wadi Arabah

edited by P. Bienkwoski and Katharina Galor

Council for British Research in the Levant, 2006
Cloth: 978-1-84217-209-4 | eISBN: 978-1-7397302-2-2
Library of Congress Classification DS110.A683C76 2005

ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Most of the papers published in this volume were originally presented at a conference of the same name, organised by the editors, and held in Atlanta, Georgia, in November 2003. The Wadi Arabah falls between the two areas of southern Jordan and Negev, and has traditionally been seen as a barrier and border. This book (and the conference it came out of) is an attempt to look at this neglected area anew: bridge, rather than barrier.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of contributors

Introduction | Piotr Bienkowski and Katharina Galor

1. The Wadi Arabah: Meanings in a Contested Landscape | Piotr Bienkowski

2. Desert Environment and Geoarchaeology of the Wadi Arabah | Hendrik J. Bruins

3. The Archaeological Surveys in the Arabah Reconsidered: Data and Metadata | Moti Haiman

4. Settlement Patterns in the Wadi Arabah and the Adjacent Desert Areas: AView from the Eilat Region | Uzi Avner

5. The Southern Ghors and North-east Arabah: Resources, Sites and Routes | Burton MacDonald

6. Cultural and Geological Influences on Prehistoric Site Distributions in the Wadi Arabah | Donald O. Henry

7. Aspects of an Early Bronze Age II–III Polity in the Dead Sea Region | Yuval Yekutieli

8. Mining Archaeology and Archaeometallurgy in the Wadi Arabah: The Mining Districts of Faynan and Timna | Andreas Hauptmann

9. Copper Trading Networks Across the Arabah During the Later Early Bronze Age | Russell Adams

10. The Emergence and First Development of the Arabian Trade Across the Wadi Arabah | Michaël Jasmin

11. The Wadi Arabah in the Hebrew Scriptures | John R. Bartlett

12. ‘Down to the Sea’: Nabataean Colonization in the Negev Highlands | Tali Erickson-Gini

13. The Nabataean Presence South of the Dead Sea: New Evidence | Yizhar Hirschfeld

14. Textiles, Basketry, Cordage and Fruits from ‘En Tamar: Preliminary Report | Orit Shamir

15. The Rujm Taba Archaeological Project (RTAP): Results of the 2001 Survey and Reconnaisance | Benjamin J. Dolinka

16. Roman Organization in the Arabah in the Fourth Century AD | Benjamin Isaac

17. Roman Aila and the Wadi Arabah: An Economic Relationship | S. Thomas Parker

18. Were There Gold Mines in the Eastern Arabah? | Ze’ev Meshel

19. Land behind Aqaba: the Wadi Arabah During the Early Islamic Period | Donald Whitcomb

20. Nineteenth-century Travellers in the Wadi Arabah | Eveline J. van der Steen

21. Relations between Bedouin Tribes on Opposite Sides of the Wadi Arabah, 1600–1950 | Clinton Bailey

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