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DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0239227
	Byzantine-Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel)
	Butler, Don H.; Dunseth, Zachary C.; Tepper, Yotam; Erickson-Gini, Tali; Bar-Oz, Guy; Shahack-Gross, Ruth
通讯作者	Butler, DH ; Shahack-Gross, R
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2020
卷号	15 期号:10
英文摘要	Sustainable resource management is of central importance among agrarian societies in marginal drylands. In the Negev Desert, Israel, research on agropastoral resource management during Late Antiquity emphasizes intramural settlement contexts and landscape features. The importance of hinterland trash deposits as diachronic archives of resource use and disposal has been overlooked until recently. Without these data, assessments of community-scale responses to societal, economic, and environmental disruption and reconfiguration remain incomplete. In this study, micro-geoarchaeological investigations were conducted on trash mound features at the Byzantine-Early Islamic sites of Shivta, Elusa, and Nesanna to track spatiotemporal trends in the use and disposal of critical agropastoral resources. Refuse derived sediment deposits were characterized using stratigraphy, micro-remains (i.e., livestock dung spherulites, wood ash pseudomorphs, and plant phytoliths), and mineralogy by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Our investigations detected a turning point in the management of herbivore livestock dung, a vital resource in the Negev. We propose that the scarcity of raw dung proxies in the studied deposits relates to the use of this resource as fuel and agricultural fertilizer. Refuse deposits contained dung ash, indicating the widespread use of dung as a sustainable fuel. Sharply contrasting this, raw dung was dumped and incinerated outside the village of Nessana. We discuss how this local shift in dung management corresponds with a growing emphasis on sedentised herding spurred by newly pressed taxation and declining market-oriented agriculture. Our work is among the first to deal with the role of waste management and its significance to economic strategies and urban development during the late Roman Imperial Period and Late Antiquity. The findings contribute to highlighting top-down societal and economic pressures, rather than environmental degradation, as key factors involved in the ruralisation of the Negev agricultural heartland toward the close of Late Antiquity.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000581820200053
WOS关键词	IRON-AGE ; COOKING INSTALLATIONS ; SUBSISTENCE PRACTICES ; LATE BRONZE ; SOREQ CAVE ; HIGHLANDS ; DESERT ; DUNG ; AGRICULTURE ; SHIVTA
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327082
作者单位	[Butler, Don H.; Dunseth, Zachary C.; Shahack-Gross, Ruth] Univ Haifa, Leon H Charney Sch Marine Sci, Recanati Inst Maritime Studies, Lab Sedimentary Archaeol,Dept Maritime Civilizat, Haifa, Israel; [Dunseth, Zachary C.] Tel Aviv Univ, Jacob M Alkow Dept Archaeol & Ancient Near Easter, Tel Aviv, Israel; [Tepper, Yotam; Bar-Oz, Guy] Univ Haifa, Zinman Inst Archaeol, Haifa, Israel; [Tepper, Yotam] Israel Antiqu Author, Tel Aviv, Israel; [Erickson-Gini, Tali] Israel Antiqu Author, Archaeol Div, Omer, Israel; [Butler, Don H.] Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Dept Anthropol, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA; [Dunseth, Zachary C.] Brown Univ, Joukowsky Inst Archaeol & Ancient World, Providence, RI 02912 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Butler, Don H.,Dunseth, Zachary C.,Tepper, Yotam,et al. Byzantine-Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel)[J],2020,15(10).
APA	Butler, Don H.,Dunseth, Zachary C.,Tepper, Yotam,Erickson-Gini, Tali,Bar-Oz, Guy,&Shahack-Gross, Ruth.(2020).Byzantine-Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel).PLOS ONE,15(10).
MLA	Butler, Don H.,et al."Byzantine-Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel)".PLOS ONE 15.10(2020).