Settlements and Borders in the Shephelah from the Fourth to the First Centuries BCE (original) (raw)

2021

Abstract

In the article I deploy an approach based on the specifics of settlement patterns, by analyzing the occupation, abandonment, and destruction of large, multilayered sites that existed over a long period of time—in our case from the fourth to the first centuries BCE. This approach follows that of researchers who use the material expression of abandonment, destruction, and decline processes in the archaeological record (La Motta and Schiefer 1999; Zuckerman 2007; Bocher and Freud 2017; Sandhaus and Kreimerman 2017). The underlying rationale focuses on patterns, and it claims that if we can identify different occupational patterns that repeat in certain areas and differ in a consistent way from those in other areas, these may reflect differences in the administrative system of each area and also allow for the definition of borders between two different administrative units, toparchies, or provinces.

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