<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The archaeological research conducted during the last two decades at the Judean Shephelah testifies for one of the most turbulent regions in the land of Israel during the Late Bronze Age. This stands in contrast to the scarce historical record that relates to it. The geographic region of Ramat Bet Shemesh encompasses important information about socio-political relations between the small rural settlements and hamlets and the city-states that dominated the area from the west. Advanced GIS modelling is one of the main research tools that enables us to reconstruct various aspects of these interactions. In this paper, the results of viewshed analyses are presented, suggesting that these interactions are defined, among other things, by a solidarity between small rural occupations that resist territorial rigid inner division of the landscape.</p></abstract>

The archaeological research conducted during the last two decades at the Judean Shephelah testifies for one of the most turbulent regions in the land of Israel during the Late Bronze Age. This stands in contrast to the scarce historical record that relates to it. The geographic region of Ramat Bet Shemesh encompasses important information about socio-political relations between the small rural settlements and hamlets and the city-states that dominated the area from the west. Advanced GIS modelling is one of the main research tools that enables us to reconstruct various aspects of these interactions. In this paper, the results of viewshed analyses are presented, suggesting that these interactions are defined, among other things, by a solidarity between small rural occupations that resist territorial rigid inner division of the landscape.

Reconstructing Socio-Political Urban-Rural Interactions Using Viewshed Analysis: The Late Bronze Age at Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel.

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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The archaeological research conducted during the last two decades at the Judean Shephelah testifies for one of the most turbulent regions in the land of Israel...

Reconstructing Socio-Political Urban-Rural Interactions Using Viewshed Analysis: The Late Bronze Age at Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel.

Published Online: Feb 06, 2018

Page range: 230 - 244

Received: Apr 22, 2017

Accepted: Jan 07, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0035

Keywords
Ramat Bet Shemesh, Late Bronze Age, city states, rural villages, GIS, Viewshed Analysis

© 2017 Yitzhak Paz et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Reconstructing Socio-Political Urban-Rural Interactions Using Viewshed Analysis: The Late Bronze Age at Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel.

Published Online: Feb 06, 2018

Page range: 230 - 244

Received: Apr 22, 2017

Accepted: Jan 07, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0035

KeywordsRamat Bet Shemesh, Late Bronze Age, city states, rural villages, GIS, Viewshed Analysis

© 2017 Yitzhak Paz et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Ramat Bet Shemesh, Late Bronze Age, city states, rural villages, GIS, Viewshed Analysis