Revolutions in the Desert: The Rise of Mobile Pastoralism in the Southern Levant

by Steven Rosen

Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left few remains appropriate for analytic study. Few prior studies have approached the deeper past of desert nomadic societies, which have been primarily recognized only as a complement to the study of sedentary agricultural societies in the region. Based on decades of archaeological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629585440
• ISBN13: 9781629585444
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"