Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral
nomadism in the arid regions of the ancient Near East, challenging
the prevailing notion that such societies left few remains
appropriate for analytic study. Few prior studies have approached
the deeper past of desert nomadic societies, which have been
primarily recognized only as a complement to the study of sedentary
agricultural societies in the region. Based on decades of
archaeological field work in the Negev of southern Israel, both
excavations and surveys, and integrating materials from adjacent
regions, Revolutions in the Desert offers a deeper and more dynamic
view of the rise of herding societies beyond the settled zone.
Rosen offers the first archaeological analysis of the rise of
herding in the desert, from the first introduction of domestic
goats and sheep into the arid zones, more than eight millennia ago,
to the evolution of more recent Bedouin societies. The adoption of
domestic herds by hunter-gatherer societies, contemporary with and
peripheral to the first farming settlements, revolutionized all
aspects of desert life, including subsistence, trade, cult, social
organization, and ecology. Inviting processual comparison to the
agricultural revolution and the secondary spread of domestication
beyond the Near East, this volume traces the evolution of nomadic
societies in the archaeological record and examines their
ecological, economic and social adaptations to the deserts of the
Southern Levant. With maps and illustrations from the author's own
collection, Revolutions in the Desert is a thoughtful and engaging
approach to the archaeology of desert nomadic societies.
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