eLibrary: From Trash to Treasure. Nahal Omer (Israel) 7th-9th centuries
Nahal Omer is situated at a crossroads connecting Arabia with the Negev, and the desert with the Mediterranean. It was a modest village and way station between the 7th and 9th centuries CE, located along routes linking the Incense Road to the Silk Road.
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Articles
Bar-Oz, G., Galili, R., Hildebrandt, B., Shamir, O., Shamir-Shafir, N., Lokshin, D.G., Erickson-Gini, T., Fuks, D. and Avni, G., 2024. Treasures in the trash mounds of Nahal ‘Omer: an Early Islamic village in Wadi Arabah, Israel. CARMEL: Studies in Archaeological Sciences and Conservation, 3, pp.1-24.
Bar-Oz, G., Galili, R., Fuks, D., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Shamir, N. and Avni, G., 2022. Caravanserai middens on desert roads: a new perspective on the Nabataean–Roman trade network across the Negev. Antiquity, 96(387), pp.592-610.
Ben-Michael J. Israel I. & Nahlieli D. 2018. Nahal Omer: a village from the Early Islamic period in the Arava. Excavations and Surveys in Israel 129: 1–23.
Butler, D.H., Dunseth, Z.C., Tepper, Y., Erickson-Gini, T., Bar-Oz, G. and Shahack-Gross, R., 2020. Byzantine—Early Islamic resource management detected through micro-geoarchaeological investigations of trash mounds (Negev, Israel). PLoS One, 15(10), p.e0239227.
Erickson-Gini, T. and Israel, Y., 2013. Excavating the Nabataean incense road. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, 1(1), pp.24-53.
Gambash, G., 2024. Gambash, G., Avni, G., and Bar-Oz, G.(2024),‘Think Outside the Road: Negev Connectivity beyond the Nabatean Incense Route,’ Journal of Arid Journal of Arid Environments, 225, 1-9.
Hildebrandt B, Shamir O, Galili R, Shamir N & Bar-Oz G. 2023. Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road: the silk and cotton finds from Nahal Omer, Negev Desert. Antiquity 97(393): 14, 1–8.
Shamir, O. and Baginski, A., 2014. The earliest cotton ikat textiles from Nahal ‘Omer Israel 650–810 CE. Global Textile Encounters. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, pp.65-73.
Shamir, O. and Baginski, A., 2017. Stories behind Archaeological Textiles Fragments from the Early Islamic Period till the Medieval Period in the Land of Israel.
Shamir, O., Hildebrandt, B., Galili, R., Shamir, N. and Bar-Oz, G., 2023. Trash or Cache? The Textile Evidence from the Naḥal ‘Omer Middens as an Indicator of Early Islamic-Period Trade Networks along Israel’s Silk Road. ‘Atiqot/עתיקות, pp.175-200.