Landscapes of Survival : The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan's North-Eastern Desert and Beyond |
Autore | Akkermans M. M. G |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (400 pages) |
Disciplina | 915.6950444 |
Soggetto topico |
Jordan
Travel Deserts |
ISBN | 90-8890-944-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 -- Blank Page -- Blank Page. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794465703321 |
Akkermans M. M. G
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Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2020 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landscapes of Survival : The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan's North-Eastern Desert and Beyond |
Autore | Akkermans M. M. G |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (400 pages) |
Disciplina | 915.6950444 |
Soggetto topico |
Jordan
Travel Deserts |
ISBN | 90-8890-944-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 -- Blank Page -- Blank Page. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809047103321 |
Akkermans M. M. G
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Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , 2020 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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