Hesban 1: Sedentarization and Nomadization:

Food System Cycles at Hesban and Vicinity

by Øystein S. LaBianca (Andrews University) with Arabic summary by Adnan Hadidi

This volume pulls together the various lines of evidence presented in the other 13 volumes to reconstruct and explain the cultural changes which have taken place over the past 3,500 years at Hesban and vicinity.  To this end, the volume employs the food system concept and related theoretical constructs, such as sedentarization and nomadization, upon which our understanding of cultural change at Hesban pivots.

Contents: Introduction to the Food System Concept and the Heshbon Expedition; Sedentarization and nomadization; The Hesban Area Food System during the Recent Past; From Archaeological Information to Food System Configurations; Configurations of the Food System during the Greco-Roman Millennium: ca. 333 B.C. to A.D. 630; Configurations of the Food System during the Islamic Centuries: ca. A.D. 630 to 1900; Intensification and abatement: Summary and Reflections; Appendix A: Bibliography of Hesban-Related Scholarly Publications; Appendix B: Overview of the Hesban Final Publications Series; Appendix C: Sponsors and Participants of the Heshbon Expedition; Arabic Summary; Author Index; General Index.  Includes 47 figures, 83 plates, and 16 tables.

ISBN 0-943872-00-6  1990  353 pages, $45.99

Click here for the link to Hesban I at the Andrews University Press.

Edited 4/7/05 tlc