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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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Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
2020.
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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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