Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 39)

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Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 39)

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D.H.Amiran, for example cla
maic eration °
luNnared ¢ > meters away from the spring in order to
secure a strategic location (1953: 203).
also claimed that the location of villages
"are located on hill tops, :
ao -_— 7 g : } | qd e and
offering a good strategic position"
"The sites of these ancient towns ar rei
largely determined by physical cona such as a
position easily defended or the proximity O in
abandoned water supp
y" (1906: 57).
ence on village
centre slieve that the
ich
ions, can be disputed.
In the ease of
influence of def location, and the degree to wh
dence over other considerat
security took prece
id
381) urveyed 325 villages out of a total of 372 ( not
all villages' locations or elevation were given by the Survey). All
of these villages belong to Central Highland Sheik
the villages of these scheikhdoms are located in the highlands higher
than 150 meters above sea level, but
on data > given by the Survey of Western Palestine, (Conder a
doms. In general,
substantial numbers are located
on the western slopes and low coastal plains.
The number of villages tabulated by the present author in the Hebron
and the Jerusalem hills is 126. Out of this 76 (60%) are located on
hill tops, 25 (20%) are on mountain slopes, and 25 (20%) are on low
ground. In the case of villages located in 394
number of 199 v
rillages were > Burveyees
We notice that villages in the
patterns of location; thos
two geographic areas have
e in the Hebron and the Jerusalem hills

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