Byzantine Settlements of the Negev Desert

An Archaeological and Historical Synthesis

Maciej Wacławik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-1704-2 (ISBN)

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This book presents a complementary synthesis of the newest research on the Negev Desert (Israel) in the Byzantine period (363-640 AD) including a holistic analysis of archaeological reports, historical sources, and field surveys with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The contextualization of settlement trends in the region reveals the subjectivity of some of earlier theories, which means that the study uses models developed as part of the French École des Annales discussion on the concept of long duration. Looking at the evolution of settlement from a regional and transregional perspective, through the prism of the cycle of behavioural domains, revealed a positive aspect of the transformation of society and settlement space: that the individual and community are able to resist and get out of difficult circumstances. The study also uses the paradigm of the rise and fall of cultures; in light of this, the long-term changes taking place in late antiquity appear to consist of relatively long periods of settlement expansion and short, sudden breakdowns.

Maciej Wacławik received a PhD at the Department of Egyptian and Near East Archaeology from Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Archaeology (Poland) in 2021. He is interested in the influence of ancient pagan civilisations on the Christian religion and culture, the meaning of the Negev Desert in the Byzantine period, and metal objects and weighing systems in the Mediterranean during the Roman and Byzantine periods. He has taken part in excavations in Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Egypt, the United States, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Tunisia. Since 2017, he has conducted the Byzantine Settlement of the Negev project (BSN).

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-5275-1704-7 / 1527517047
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-1704-2 / 9781527517042
Zustand	Neuware