Caravanserai middens on desert roads: a new perspective on the Nabataean–Roman trade network across the Negev

Long-distance trade routes criss-crossed ancient Africa and Eurasia. Archaeological research has focused on the commodities in transit excavation of major centres located along these routes, with less attention paid to smaller caravanserai evidence such as rubbish middens. The ‘Incense Route’ linked Arabian Peninsula Red Sea Mediterranean Sea, activity peaking during Nabataean Roman periods. authors present results test-pit excavations middens at three small Nabataean–Roman desert Route’. assemblages recovered include material culture attesting wide, inter-regional connections, combined archaeobotanical zooarchaeological data illuminating subsistence basis caravan trade.