Above and Beyond Ancient Mounds: The Archaeology of the Modern Periods in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean

Baram, Uzi

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“…Where surveys and excavations of 'late' material have been undertaken, researchers have typically concerned themselves with architecture, art, inscriptions and artefacts rather than with the zooarchaeological, paleobotanical and isotopic analyses that are likely to provide the most direct data concerning pastoral practices, environmental change and mobility. The paucity of archaeology data on pastoralism is part of a broader lack of evidence concerning common people, especially rural and secular populations, in the Byzantine, Medieval and Ottoman periods (Cassis 2009, Baram 2009, Baram and Carroll 2002. Fortunately, this lacuna is somewhat balanced by the broader array of historical records available for some post-Classical periods concerning the rural countryside, specific pastoral tribes' engagement with landed governments, animal markets, mobility patterns and tribal demography.…”

Section: Chalcolithic (C 6000-3000 Bc)mentioning

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10,000 Years of Pastoralism in Anatolia: A Review of Evidence for Variability in Pastoral Lifeways

Hammer¹,

Arbuckle²

2017

Nomadic Peoples

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Archaeological and historical data show that pastoral systems in Anatolia over the last ten thousand years were characterised by a high degree of variability in degree of mobility, land-use and animal preferences, target products and herd management strategies, and political organisation. Long-distance pastoral nomadism was a historically late development in the region, occurring over the last 1,500 to 1,000 years. Ethnographic analogy currently structures the majority of archaeological conclusions concerning pre-modern pastoralism, but obscures the variability that recent archaeological work brings to light. Multi-disciplinary studies seeking empirical data on ancient pastoralism and mobility are critical for developing a more subtle and accurate picture.

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Section: Chalcolithic (C 6000-3000 Bc)mentioning

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10,000 Years of Pastoralism in Anatolia: A Review of Evidence for Variability in Pastoral Lifeways

Hammer¹,

Arbuckle²

2017

Nomadic Peoples

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“…Thus, the Ottoman state began the process of turning "unproductive" pastures into agricultural fields by implementing new land tenure system that encouraged private landholdings (e.g., Baram 2007Baram , 2009Carroll 2008). The labor for the new rural economy could effectively be achieved by transforming Bedu into a settled peasantry.…”

Section: The Ottoman Empire and The Tanzimatmentioning

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Building Farmsteads in the Desert: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Rural Landscapes in Late Ottoman Period Transjordan

Carroll

2011

Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, merchant settlers from Palestine crossed the Jordan River and moved east into the Balqa' region of the Transjordan. Under a new Ottoman land tenure system, these settlers acquired land and invested in large-scale agricultural production, and constructed a series of large farmstead complexes, transforming the cultural and physical landscape of Transjordan's rural countryside. Many Bedu tribes that had previously used the landscape mainly for pastureland were drawn into this new economy as laborers, and their pastures were turned into large farms.While the development of large farmsteads in Transjordan and the Middle East is part of the process of capitalist expansion into the rural countryside, the intersection of capitalist investment with the empire's changing administrative policies were part of a new colonial discourse; during the nineteenth century, the Ottoman state attempted to redefine its relationship to nomadic groups and embraced the ideologies of colonialism in its efforts to settle its Bedu subjects and turn pastureland into agricultural spaces.Archaeological approaches to changing settlement in late Ottoman period Transjordan, however, move beyond a view that global structures were simply imposed on tribal groups. Instead, Bedu use of landscapes -both hidden and visiblehelped them negotiate their everyday lived conditions, by creating their own challenges to the structures of state, capitalism and colonialism.

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Out of Time: Erasing Modernity in an Antique City

Baram

2012

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Above and Beyond Ancient Mounds: The Archaeology of the Modern Periods in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

10,000 Years of Pastoralism in Anatolia: A Review of Evidence for Variability in Pastoral Lifeways

10,000 Years of Pastoralism in Anatolia: A Review of Evidence for Variability in Pastoral Lifeways

Building Farmsteads in the Desert: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Rural Landscapes in Late Ottoman Period Transjordan

Out of Time: Erasing Modernity in an Antique City

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