Behind Sealed Doors: Unravelling Abandonment Dynamics at the Byzantine Site of Shivta in the Negev Desert

Arts & Humanities

• Negev 100%
• Abandonment 78%
• Byzantine Empire 62%
• Bioarchaeology 33%
• Research Program 23%
• Field Systems 16%
• Urban Infrastructure 15%
• Rubbish 15%
• Rainfall 14%
• Mounds 13%
• Natural Disasters 12%
• Hinterland 12%
• Seventh Century 12%
• Climate Change 12%
• Early Nineteenth-century 10%
• Persistence 10%
• Archaeologists 9%
• Historian 6%
• Causes 6%

Social Sciences

• desert 78%
• archaeology 72%
• historian 34%
• nineteenth century 32%
• natural disaster 31%
• persistence 29%
• twentieth century 29%
• climate change 28%
• infrastructure 23%
• cause 19%
• event 19%