Pastoral Nomadization in the Neolithic Near East: Review from the Viewpoint of Social Resilience

Mobilitat i sedentarisme: Convergència de dos conceptes divergents a partir de l’arqueologia

“…Thus, villages became centres of production, storage, exchange, and distribution, and the setting for all sorts of social activities. At the same time, small sites with evidence of episodic habitation were documented in El Kowm (Cauvin, 1990) and other marginal areas in central and eastern Syria or the Jafr Basin and Bishri mountain range in Jordan (Fujii, 2020) and were clearly seasonal and were associated with nomadic groups. One of the most interesting diachronic studies published to date and carried out in the latter geographical area showed that itinerant camps had existed there since the beginning of the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (Figure 3).…”