Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant

Autor: Ofir Tirosh, Mohammad Najjar, Omri A. Yagel, Erez Ben-Yosef, Brady Liss, Thomas E. Levy
Přispěvatelé: Biehl, Peter F
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
History
Punctuated equilibrium
Stratigraphy
Archaeological Excavation
Social Sciences
01 natural sciences
law.invention
Geographical Locations
Theoretical
law
Ancient technology
Models
0601 history and archaeology
Radiocarbon dating
Stratigraphy (archaeology)
Israel
History
Ancient
Holocene
Wadi
media_common
Evolutionary Theory
Multidisciplinary
geography.geographical_feature_category
060102 archaeology
Geology
06 humanities and the arts
Radioactive Carbon Dating
Archaeology
Physical Sciences
Metallurgy
Medicine
Egypt
Research Article
010506 paleontology
Asia
Southern Levant
General Science & Technology
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Materials Science
Ancient history
Research and Analysis Methods
Ancient
Humans
Chemical Characterization
Isotope Analysis
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Evolutionary Biology
geography
Jordan
Technological change
Biology and Life Sciences
Paleontology
Models
Theoretical
Archaeological Dating
People and Places
Africa
Earth Sciences
Copper
Zdroj: PloS one, vol 14, iss 9
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 9, p e0221967 (2019)
Popis: While the punctuated equilibrium model has been employed in paleontological and archaeological research, it has rarely been applied for technological and social evolution in the Holocene. Using metallurgical technologies from the Wadi Arabah (Jordan/Israel) as a case study, we demonstrate a gradual technological development (13th-10th c. BCE) followed by a human agency-triggered punctuated "leap" (late-10th c. BCE) simultaneously across the entire region (an area of ~2000 km2). Here, we present an unparalleled, diachronic archaeometallurgical dataset focusing on elemental analysis of dozens of well-dated slag samples. Based on the results, we suggest punctuated equilibrium provides an innovative theoretical model for exploring ancient technological changes in relation to larger sociopolitical conditions-in the case at hand the emergence of biblical Edom-, exemplifying its potential for more general cross-cultural applications.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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