Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go?

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journal article

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The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 56, no. 4, 200-211

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Yes

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• entity Shasu
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · pp. 200-211

  Provides archaeological caution about mobile populations.

• date assertion Shasu — date assertion
  informs · contextualizes · pp. 200-211

  Provides archaeological caution about mobile populations.

• entity Pastoral and copper-production networks of the Arabah
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · pastoral visibility discussion

  Supports caution about mobile groups.

• date assertion Pastoral and copper-production networks of the Arabah — date assertion
  informs · contextualizes · pastoral visibility discussion

  Supports caution about mobile groups.

• event Expansion of small settlements in the central highlands
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · pastoral mobility discussion

  Provides underrepresented mobile-population context.

• claim Shasu is an Egyptian external mobility/population label and cannot be equated wholesale with Israelites, Midianites, Edomites, or Yahweh worshippers.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · mobile-population archaeology

  Provides social context.

• causal hypothesis Multicausal Iron I highland settlement model
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · pastoral mobility

  Supports mobile component.

• claim Absence of one expected artifact or text is not, by itself, sufficient proof that a complex biblical tradition is wholly true or wholly false.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  informs · provides source criticism · archaeological invisibility of mobile groups

  Shows negative-evidence limits.

• claim Excavation intensity, salvage conditions, later building, publication language, and modern borders strongly shape which southern Levantine sites and communities are visible.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides source criticism · mobile-population visibility

  Shows settlement bias.