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The book highligths the author's involvement in fieldwork and archaeological research in the northern Negev desert in Israel for 12 years, during which he was constantly asked by well-intentioned people why he had decided to conduct research in that area, very likely because of his African identity. It assembles some of the author's expanded publications along with new chapters and features new themes and perspectives like regional archaeology, taphonomy and formation processes of the archaeological record, theory and practice in household archaeology, as well as the integration of aDNA (Ancient DNA) and genomics in the explanation of long-term culture change. The work offers a critique of the concept of "transition" almost universally used as synonymous to succession in the explanation of change from one archaeological culture to the next.

Successively Professor at the University of California (SD), University of Michigan, University of Paris-Nanterre, Deputy- Director at the CNRS, and Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) at Xiamen University (China), Augustin F. C. Holl has carried out fieldwork in the Negev desert (Israel) from 1984 to 1996, parallel to research in Africa.