Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar

Citation metadata

Type

academic monograph

Publication

Archaeopress

Peer reviewed

Yes

Open DOI or stable record (opens in a new tab)

Records informed by this source

• causal hypothesis Climate, land use and water management interacted without one deterministic regional collapse mechanism
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · Pastoral and settlement landscapes

  Shows a distinct regional adaptive system.

• claim Dhofar’s securely dated 1600–800 BCE settlement and coastal record remains sparse despite substantial long-term survey and monument research.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Regional chronology and settlement chapters

  Provides the long-term fieldwork base.

• claim The later classical incense trade cannot be projected backward as a continuous 1600–800 BCE route across Yemen, Dhofar, the Horn and the Levant.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Regional chronology and pastoral landscapes

  Shows the need for local chronological control in Dhofar.

• property assignment Dhofar — has property — Sparse or uneven fieldwork
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Regional synthesis and chronology

  Documents the research record.

• property Pastoral component
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Pastoralism, monuments and settlement chapters

  Provides a long-term Dhofar pastoral framework.

• date assertion Dhofar — date assertion
  informs · supports distribution · Regional survey, monument and settlement chapters

  Provides the regional archaeological framework.

• entity Dhofar
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports distribution · Regional survey, monument and settlement chapters

  Provides the regional archaeological framework.