Peasant Decision-Making in the Jerusalem Highlands: A Landscape Perspective
Life on the Farm in Late Medieval Jerusalem - The Village of Beit Mazmil, its Occupants and their Industry over Five Centuries - Bethany J. Walker
Yuval Gadot [+]
Tel Aviv University
Prof. Dr. Yuval Gadot (PhD 2004, Tel Aviv University, Archaeology/Jewish Studies) – Professor of Archaeology; Director of Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. Director of the terrace component of the Medieval Jerusalem Hinterland Project. Co-author of 5 monographs, editor of 4 published works, and author of 72 scholarly articles.
Gideon Avni [+]
Hebrew University and Israel Antiquities Authority
Prof. Dr. Gideon Avni (PhD 1997, Hebrew University, Institute of Archaeology) – Professor of Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Director of Excavations and Surveys of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Co-PI of the Medieval Jerusalem Hinterland Project. Author of The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach (Oxford, 2014) and Nomads, Farmers and Town Dwellers, Pastoralist - Sedentist Interaction in the Negev Highlands, 6th -8th Centuries CE. Jerusalem, 1996), two edited and several collaboratively written monographs, and 37 scholarly articles.
Description
This chapters sets the language of the rest of the volume, introducing key concepts related to the decision-making process behind historical land use and “reading” the archaeological record in this regard.