Landscapes of Survival The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan's North-Eastern Desert and Beyond.

The 'Black Desert' begins just south of Damascus and comprises some 40,000 km2 of dark and desolate basalt fields, which stretch from southern Syria across north-eastern Jordan and reach the sand sea of the Nefud in Saudi Arabia. The rough and highly arid terrain is often difficult to acce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Akkermans, M. M. G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2020.
Temas:
Jordan.
Travel.
Deserts.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: landscapes of survival
  • Peter M.M.G. Akkermans
  • First inhabitants: the early prehistory of north-east Jordan
  • Tobias Richter
  • New techniques for tracing ephemeral occupation in arid, dynamic environments: case studies from Wadi Faynan and Wadi al-Jilat, Jordan
  • Daniella Vos
  • Populating the Black Desert: the Late Neolithic presence
  • Yorke M. Rowan, Gary O. Rollefson and Alexander Wasse
  • Flamingos in the desert: how a chance encounter shed light on the 'Burin Neolithic' of eastern Jordan
  • Alexander Wasse, Gary Rollefson and Yorke Rowan
  • Pastoralists of the southern Nefud desert: inter-regional contact and local identity
  • Maria Guagnin
  • The works of the old men in Arabia: a comparative analysis
  • David Kennedy
  • Defending the 'land of the devil': prehistoric hillforts in the Jawa hinterland
  • Bernd Müller-Neuhof
  • The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age of the badia and beyond: implications of the results of the first season of the 'Western Harra Survey'
  • Stefan L. Smith
  • East of Azraq: settlement, burial and chronology from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age and Iron Age in the Jebel Qurma region, Black Desert, north-east Jordan
  • Peter M.M.G. Akkermans and Merel L. Brüning
  • Identifying nomadic camp sites from the Classical and Late Antique periods in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan
  • Harmen O. Huigens
  • The Nabataeans as travellers between the desert and the sown
  • Will M. Kennedy
  • The desert and the sown: Safaitic outsiders in Palmyrene territory
  • Jørgen Christian Meyer
  • The north-eastern badia in Early Islamic times
  • Karin Bartl
  • Depicting the camel: representations of the dromedary in the Black Desert rock art of Jordan
  • Nathalie Østerled Brusgaard
  • Bows on basalt boulders: weaponry in Safaitic rock art from Jebel Qurma, Black Desert, Jordan
  • Keshia A.N. Akkermans
  • 'Your own mark for all time': on wusūm marking practices in the Near East (c. 1800-1960 AD)
  • Koen Berghuijs
  • Rock art in Saudi Arabia: a window into the past? First insights of a comparative study of rock art sites in the Riyadh and Najrān regions
  • Charly Poliakoff
  • Graffiti and complexity: ways-of-life and languages in the Hellenistic and Roman harrah
  • Michael C.A. Macdonald
  • Gaius the Roman and the Kawnites: inscriptional evidence for Roman auxiliary units raised from the nomads of the harrah
  • Ahmad Al-Jallad, Zeyad Al-Salameen, Yunus Shdeifat and Rafe Harahsheh
  • Remarks on some recently published inscriptions from the harrah referring to the Nabataeans and the 'revolt of Damasī'
  • Jérôme Norris
  • Two new Safaitic inscriptions and the Arabic and Semitic plural demonstrative base
  • Phillip W. Stokes
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