شواهد الاستيطان المبكر لمدة ما قبل التاريخ في اليمن

Abstract EN

The study of archaeological survey is one of the important studies in the field of archeology, as it helps to understand the conditions that led to the spatial distributions and what are the determinants of which the different settlement patterns were formed, and what are the reasons for the discrepancy and the difference in sizes between the archaeological sites in the same area, all these questions can be Extensive archaeological surveys answer them, and they are financially inexpensive compared to archaeological excavations that require large financial funding to reach the desired results, but there remains an urgent need for archaeological excavations to study architectural styles, civilizational roles and ancient written texts, and for each field of archaeological research, whether Excavation or archaeological survey has an important role, so the archaeological survey was not the same as it was in its early stages, as its methods and methodology developed little by little, and it depended mainly on the purpose or goal of it, and the archaeological survey that precedes the excavation of a particular site differs from the survey that tracks settlement patterns Or other forms of human activities, which are evident in the landscape, or the study of the interaction between ancient inhabitants and their natural environment, or the observation of the influence of rivers in shaping the final appearance for human distribution.

Therefore, it follows the patterns of settlement and its spread and the factors that led to the lack of human distribution at some point, and the intensity of those distributions in the same region during different ages.