Settlement patterns, polities and regional complexity in the Southeast Arabian Iron Age
Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: Analysis of environmental and settlement data highlights the existence of a series of piedmont settlements with which are associated : irrigation systems, the potential for intensive agriculture and the ability to control and defend such resources. When combined with historical evidence, these are interpreted as a series of politically complex polities existing in a restricted environmental z.one. The focus of fieldwork in southeastern Arabia has led to an over-emphasis of the importance of these settlements in terms of regional hierarchies and polity interaction. An examination of settlements in other environmental zones in combination with distributional analysis of artefacts suggests that piedmont settlements did not economically and politically dominate the region as a whole.
Source: Paléorient
Author: Peter Magee
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2050799953