From the Beginnings: Archaeology, Paleoenvironments and the Origins of Desert Exploitation - Session 2
Convener: Michal Birkenfeld, BGU
Archaeology can serve as a valuable tool for the exploration of desert environments and their exploitation by human groups. Biological, chemical and sedimentological proxies, derived from archaeological contexts, allow complex, detailed palaeoenvironmental research, offering insights into past climates, landscapes, and most-importantly, human-environment interactions. Indeed, it is the ability of archaeology to correlate human action and environmental conditions that makes archaeology one of the leading disciplines in the emerging field of Environmental Humanities. In this session we will present a variety of test-cases, representing various periods and socio-economic systems, from prehistoric hunter-gatherers, through proto-historic pastoralists to the historical and classical periods’ agricultural and trade-related empires. All will exemplify how archaeology can inform and ameliorate models of human/environment interaction and the commodification between humans and the arid environment.
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- From the Beginnings: Archaeology, Paleoenvironments and the Origins of Desert Exploitation - Session 2
1) Dr. Itay Abadi
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Water Sources and Prehistoric Human Adaptation in the Hyperarid Northern Arava Valley: Insights from New Archaeological Research in the Idan Area
- From the Beginnings: Archaeology, Paleoenvironments and the Origins of Desert Exploitation - Session 2
2) Mr. Oz Varoner
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Landscapes of Interaction: Cultural and Paleoenvironments Dynamics during the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary – View from Qadim Cave Northeastern Negev
- From the Beginnings: Archaeology, Paleoenvironments and the Origins of Desert Exploitation - Session 2
3) Dr. Joshua Schmidt
The University of Haifa, Israel
From Near-Extinction to Market Distinction: Notes on Safeguarding Food Security through the Systematic Study of Heritage based Regenerative Agriculture
- From the Beginnings: Archaeology, Paleoenvironments and the Origins of Desert Exploitation - Session 2
4) Prof. Yana Tchekhanovets
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
The Ancient Agriculture in Beer-Sheva Valley during the Byzantine-Islamic Transition
