Isotope analyses (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Arnold. Haskel Greenfield. Aren Maeir.

Early urban economies during the Early Bronze Age of the southern Levant are often treated as if they relied upon locally-available food resources that were largely produced at the household level, such as the herding of domestic livestock around the periphery or territory of the city-state. In this paper, we investigate whether the pastoral component of economies was a small-scale local affair or was conducted remotely, which would have involved productive specialists such as nomadic...