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Early multi-resource nomadism: Excavations at the Camel Site in the central Negev

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Steven A. Rosen
Steven A. Rosen*
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Archaeological Division, Ben-Gurion University, POB 653 Beersheva 84105 Israel
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Excavations at the Camel Site, in the Negev, provide evidence of desert cottage industries making (and probably trading) beads and millstones in the Early Bronze Age. But these were people for whom nomadism was the ‘default lifestyle’.

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Early Bronze AgeNegevsouthern Levantpastoralismnomadismperiphery

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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 298 , December 2003 , pp. 749 - 760
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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