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Culture contact between past populations has traditionally been investigated by using a paradigm of unidirectional change forced on a subordinate group by a dominant power. However, recent studies have suggested that such power relations are often more dynamic and bi-directional…

This dissertation. introduces an example of integrating biological, textual, and artifactual evidence to produce a socio- and political-economic history of the Roman province of Arabia and the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tertia. This investigation focused on the interaction…