{"id":141,"date":"2008-09-10T00:16:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-09-10T00:16:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:16:58","slug":"is-somebody-watching-you-ancient-surveillance-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Is Somebody Watching You? Ancient Surveillance Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#be844a\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\">             <strong>Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology<\/strong>             <\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxpub.com\/journals\/showissue.asp?jref=13&amp;issref=1380\">Vol. 19 No. 1 (Jun 2006):65-89<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Is Somebody Watching You?<\/strong><br \/>\nAncient Surveillance Systems in the Southern Judean Desert<br \/>\n<em>Yuval Yekutieli<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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\u2013III periods (3000\u20132400 BC).<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: Negev, Bronze Age, Roman, Israel, panoptic surveillance, landscape archaeology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}