Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives by Thomas E. Levy & Ian W. N. Jones

Author:Thomas E. Levy & Ian W. N. Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

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The development of complex societies in the Southern Levant featured discontinuous trends of aggregation and dispersal among the populations of Bronze Age towns, villages , and pastoral encampments. Limited water sources and rainfall, as well as considerable topographic relief, made the success of agrarian society particularly susceptible to the influences of environmental fluctuations. These circumstances were particularly acute along the fertile, but arid low elevation bottom lands of the Jordan Rift (descending to −410 masl). Pronounced topographic contrasts between the arable lands below sea level along the Rift, and the high elevation (rising to 1200 masl) Levantine Central Hills to the west and Transjordanian Plateau to the east help illustrate ancient vegetation dynamics particularly well. These changes also emerge along the major wadis draining into the Jordan Rift, particularly from the east. Accordingly, this narrative unfolds along the Jordan Rift from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea Basin, in the Hill Country west to Megiddo and Hebron, and on the Plateau east to Amman (Fig. 6.1).

Fig. 6.1Map of the southern Levant showing major topographical features and Bronze Age archaeological sites along the Jordan Rift and its surrounding uplands

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