Historians of surveillance may be interested in this
Clive
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Vol. 19 No. 1 (Jun 2006):65-89
Is Somebody Watching You?
Ancient Surveillance Systems in the Southern Judean Desert
Yuval Yekutieli
The Panoptic model of surveillance, which enables a small number of observers to
control large numbers of people, is usually considered a modern (18th century
AD) invention and a conceptual cornerstone of modern surveillance and
disciplinary systems. On the basis of two case studies encountered in a survey
near the southwestern edge of the Dead Sea, this study suggests that the
concept of surveillance is much older. The first case deals with a quarry from
the Roman period, and the second concentrates on an ascent from the Early
Bronze Age II–III periods (3000–2400 BC).
Keywords: Negev, Bronze Age, Roman, Israel, panoptic surveillance, landscape
archaeology
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/showart.asp?search=1&jref=13&artref=12164
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