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Proquest Dissertations THE ECOLOGY OF EMPIRES: AN ARCHEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE BYZANTINE COMMUNITIES OF THE NEGEV DESERT Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Schaefer, Jerome Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 02/10/2021 04:12:35 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290500 INFORMATION TO USERS This was produced from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. While the most advanced technological means to photograph and reproduce this document have been used, the quality is heavily dependent upon the quality of the material submitted. 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Ml ^8106 *313) 761-4700 THE ECOLOGY OF EMPIRES: AN ARCHEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE BYZANTINE COMMUNITIES OF THE NEGEV DESERT by Jerome Schaefer A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPAETOffiNT OF ANTHROPOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 19 7 9 Copyright 1979 Jerome Schaefer THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE I hereby recommend that this dissertation prepared under my direction by Jerome Schaefer entitled THE ECOLOGY OF Ef^^IRES: AN ARCIIEOLOGICAL AI^PROACH TO THE RY?;ANTTNE COMMUNITIES OF THE NEGEV DESERT be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY V<r/fy Dissertation'director Date As members of the Final Examination Committee, we certify that we have read this dissertation and agree that it may be presented for final defense. Date Date Date Date Date Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent on the candidate's adequate performance and defense thereof at the final oral examination. 11/78 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an adveinced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to bor­ rowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Bequests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the copyright holder. SIGNED; To my mother, Rose Sklaren Schaefer, for her love and support throughout my life. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Of the many people who I must thank for their help and support, foremost is Dr. Gus W. Van Beek of the Smithsoniein Institution. He first suggested Byzantine Jemraeh as a possible dissertation project, and v;ithout his logistic support and unwavering confidence this study would never have come about. I offer this dissertation as small recom­ pense for his many sacrifices of time and labor in my behalf, and I hope the final product measures up to his trust. Many individuals volunteered their time and effort in the field and laboratory. Thanks are due to all. The excavation crews at Byzan­ tine Jemmeh included Janis Atzenhoffer, Deborah Faul, Holly Heller, Howard Hufford, Amir Pilch, Amy Rashop, Kay Simpson, Carmel Swisler, and Allison Wexler. On the survey were the intrepid James Knight, Steven Savage, and David Smiley. Substantial help in the analysis of ceramics and human remains at the Smithsonian Institution was given by Robert Chenoweth, Rosaman McDowell, Barbara Munford, Sharon Segal, William Scanlon, and Tom Terrible, among others. I must ailso thank the staffs of the Conservation and Analystic Lab and the Anthropology Conservation Lab, Smithsonian Institution, for their preservation and reconstruction of the more delicate artifacts, Specieil thanks go to Mary Garbin for her dedicated cleaning of the coins. Dr, Robert Hohfelder of the Department of History at the Uni­ versity of Colorado must be thanked for his identification of the iv V coinso Dr. J, Lawrence Angel of the Department of Physical Anthro­ pology at the Smithsonian examined the human remains, and Pauls Wapnish and Brian Hesse (University of Alabama) provided a full report of the zooarcheological remains® I would like to acknowledge the work of Mary Garbin, who illus­ trated Figures E-5 and E-9, Connie Sheldon (for her splendid inked pottery drawings), and David Sheehan, for his architectural plans of the cist burials. All other illustrations should be bleiraed on the author. Research was fiinded in part by grants from the Zion Research Foundation (excavation), the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (survey), and the Smithsonian Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program (analy­ sis). I appreciate the conmients of Dr, William Dever on certain sec­ tions of the meinuscript and the advice of Roberta Hagaman on the statistics, Thainks go to Hazel Gillie, who typed the final manuscript,; and to David Phillips who did the final editing. I am most grateful for the help and support of my dissertation committee: Dr, T. Patrick Culbert, Dr, Gus W. Van Beek, and Dr, Norman Yoffee, I must especially thank my chairman, Dr, Yoffee, for his many helpful comments and unrelenting high standards of scholarship. Of course, I take full responsibility for the use and inter­ pretation of findings by the experts cited above. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS x ABSTRACT xii 1. THE ECOLOGY OF EMPIRES 1 Introduction 1 The General Ecological Model ...... 6 Popiilation Growth 19 The Energetics of Byzantine Palestine ........ 28 Local Energy Flow ................ 29 Regional Energy Flow 30 Inter-regional Energy Flow 31 Regional and Inter-regional Trading Systems ... 3^ 2. THE ENVIRONMENT 39 Geography and Geology .. ......... 39 Climate ......... ^1 3. THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF BYZANTINE JEMMEH AND ENVIRONS , 50 The Provinces of Palestine 51 City Territories 56 Village Territories ....... 58 Estates 63 The History of Byzantine Jemmeh 66 The Socio-political Structure of Orda 79 k. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF BYZANTINE JEMMEH 8if The Site 85 History of Excavations 88 Description of Loci 92 Feature 1 92 Feature 2 ..... 95 Field 1 100 Field 2 113 Field 3 118 vi vii TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued Page Field if 119 Summary 12^ A Survey of Ceramic Types: Indications of Inter­ regional Trade ............. 125 Evidence of Trade 127 5. BYZANTINE AMPHORAE ANALYSIS 130 The Amphora in Ancient Trade 130 The Fixnction of Amphorae ....... 13^ Amphorae as a Unit of Measure 135 Byzantine Amphorae and the Wine Trade ........ 137 The Significance of Different Amphorae Shapes .... 1^+2 The Statistical Analysis of Byzantine Amphorae .... 1^8 Method of Statistical Analysis 1^8 Description of Variables 151 Statistical Compatrison of Waster Dumps 156 Comparison of Waster and Trash Deposits ..... 168 Behavioral and Temporal Significance ....... 17^ Summary ...................o... 175 6. THE SURVEY; A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF BYZANTINE SETTLEMENT .........«.....Qoo..o.e 178 Survey and Sampling Methods Employed 179 Contemporaneity of Sites .........
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