On the Fringe of Society: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Pastoral and Agricultural Societies

13 papers which focus on the interaction between all aspects of pastoralism and agriculture in the southern Levant, from the Bronze Age to the present. They make the point that agriculture, pastoralism, trade, exchange and other forms of subsistence were all pursued with the same communities, and that the often assumed divide between settled 'sowers' and nomads is largely illusory.