Contents
List of contributors
Introduction | Piotr Bienkowski and Katharina Galor
1. The Wadi Arabah: Meanings in a Contested Landscape | Piotr Bienkowski
2. Desert Environment and Geoarchaeology of the Wadi Arabah | Hendrik J. Bruins
3. The Archaeological Surveys in the Arabah Reconsidered: Data and Metadata | Moti Haiman
4. Settlement Patterns in the Wadi Arabah and the Adjacent Desert Areas: AView from the Eilat Region | Uzi Avner
5. The Southern Ghors and North-east Arabah: Resources, Sites and Routes | Burton MacDonald
6. Cultural and Geological Influences on Prehistoric Site Distributions in the Wadi Arabah | Donald O. Henry
7. Aspects of an Early Bronze Age II–III Polity in the Dead Sea Region | Yuval Yekutieli
8. Mining Archaeology and Archaeometallurgy in the Wadi Arabah: The Mining Districts of Faynan and Timna | Andreas Hauptmann
9. Copper Trading Networks Across the Arabah During the Later Early Bronze Age | Russell Adams
10. The Emergence and First Development of the Arabian Trade Across the Wadi Arabah | Michaël Jasmin
11. The Wadi Arabah in the Hebrew Scriptures | John R. Bartlett
12. ‘Down to the Sea’: Nabataean Colonization in the Negev Highlands | Tali Erickson-Gini
13. The Nabataean Presence South of the Dead Sea: New Evidence | Yizhar Hirschfeld
14. Textiles, Basketry, Cordage and Fruits from ‘En Tamar: Preliminary Report | Orit Shamir
15. The Rujm Taba Archaeological Project (RTAP): Results of the 2001 Survey and Reconnaisance | Benjamin J. Dolinka
16. Roman Organization in the Arabah in the Fourth Century AD | Benjamin Isaac
17. Roman Aila and the Wadi Arabah: An Economic Relationship | S. Thomas Parker
18. Were There Gold Mines in the Eastern Arabah? | Ze’ev Meshel
19. Land behind Aqaba: the Wadi Arabah During the Early Islamic Period | Donald Whitcomb
20. Nineteenth-century Travellers in the Wadi Arabah | Eveline J. van der Steen
21. Relations between Bedouin Tribes on Opposite Sides of the Wadi Arabah, 1600–1950 | Clinton Bailey