Episodic Labour Mobilisation During the Levant's 'Dark Ages': the View from Khirbet al-Mudayna al-'Aliya

将KMA的挖掘数据与防御工事的数字重建、有针对性的现场调查数据以及对当前文献的深入探索结合在一起，将使我们能够了解瓦迪穆吉布周围间歇性动员劳动力背后的动态。它将使我们能够更全面、更包容地看待国家形成和劳动力组织、中央集权的等级制度以及基于地区证据的社区组织的考古现实。这项研究将整合这些经常被忽视，但重要的证据，以补充和补充南黎凡特铁器时代的更大的考古叙述。因此，它将提供一个跨越现代边界的视角。解释这一考古结果将有助于更广泛地理解社会组织和复杂性的非分类学方法，同时也将IAI考古叙述从过时的，通常是目的论的叙述中解脱出来，为打破僵局提供一条前进的道路。

Bringing together KMA's excavation data with digital reconstructions of the fortifications, data from targeted site surveys, and an in-depth exploration of the current literature will allow us to understand the dynamics behind episodic mobilisation of labour around the Wadi Mujib. It will allow for a more comprehensive and inclusive look at the archaeological realities of state formation and organisation of labour, centralised hierarchy, and organisation of communities based on regional evidence. This study will integrate this often overlooked, but essential evidence to supplement and complement the larger archaeological narratives of the Iron Age in the Southern Levant. Thus, it will provide a perspective which crosses modern borders. Interpreting this resulting archaeological picture will contribute to wider scholarly understanding of non-taxonomic approaches to social organisation and complexity, while also breaking the IAI archaeological narratives away from outdated, often teleological narratives, providing a way forward through the stalemate.