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，目标现场调查的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Wadi Mujib周围劳动力动员背后的动态。它将允许更全面和包容性地看待国家形成和劳动组织，中央集权的等级制度和基于区域证据的社区组织的考古现实。这项研究将整合这一经常被忽视，但必不可少的证据，以补充和补充更大的考古叙述铁器时代在南黎凡特。因此，它将提供一个跨越现代边界的视角。解释由此产生的考古图片将有助于更广泛的学术理解社会组织和复杂性的非分类方法，同时也打破了IAI考古叙事远离过时的，往往是目的论的叙事，提供了一种前进的方式，通过僵局。

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approaches to social organisation and complexity, while also breaking the IAI archaeological narratives away from outdated, often teleological narratives, providing a way forward through the stalemate.