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Article: Living on the Fringe: The Archeology and History of the Negev, Sinai, and Neighboring Regions in Bronze and Iron Ages.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- October 1, 1998
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By ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN. Monographs on Mediterranean Archaeology, vol. 6. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 1995. Pp. 197. [pounds]40, $60.
This volume is based on eight articles in various journals from 1984 to 1992 by Israel Finkelstein (occasionally with others). Here they are revised and expanded to focus on the theme of "long term settlement and demographic processes that took place in the arid zones of the southern Levant" (p. xi). The area that is actually covered, however, is principally the Negev of Israel, with some attention given to the Sinai and to southern Jordan.
Part I (pp. 15-64) discusses the ecology of the region: the question of ...