Dugongs, Dromedaries, and Domesticates: Disentangling Diverse Diets in Bronze Age Southeast Arabia

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This is an abstract from the "Farm to Table Archaeology: The Operational Chain of Food Production" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Bronze Age (ca. 3100 – 1250 BCE) in southeast Arabia is a period of major social and economic changes. In general, several aspects of the southeastern Arabian Bronze Age diverge from patterns occurring in neighboring areas, making it an interesting focal point of study. In terms of subsistence strategies, agriculture arrived over a millennium later than in major Near East centers. While major Near Eastern urban centers did engage in other subsistence strategies (e.g., pastoralism), the diversity and intensity of the non-agrarian pursuits are often obscured. This paper disentangles the archaeological evidence demonstrating diverse diets in Southeast Arabia that harnessed pastoralism, hunting, foraging, fishing, and agriculture.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Farm to Table Archaeology: The Operational Chain of Food Production

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Abstract Id(s): 25866