An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast

Stark, Freya

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“…The presence of dry‐walled stone tombs along the high edge of plateaus and upper terraces throughout the southern Jol of Hadramawt has been widely noted (e.g. Bowen 1958; Doe 1983; Ingrams 1941; Stark 1939; Philby 1939: 373–379; Vogt & Sedov [n.d.]), but a few examples have been archaeologically investigated (Braemer et al 2001; Steimer‐Herbet, Davtian & Braemer 2006; Crassard & Hitgen 2007). These tombs are commonly associated with a broadly recognised Arabian Bronze Age phenomenon of tomb‐building and lineage narratives establishing territorial rights for mobile living populations linked to highly visible placement of the(ir) dead (Wilkinson 2003: 162–164; Steimer‐Herbert 2001; 2004; Cleuziou & Tosi 2007; Cleuziou 2001; de Maigret 2005; Kempinski 2007; cf.…”

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“…Earlier sightings and anecdotal accounts of prehistoric monuments (e.g. Bowen 1958; Ingrams 1941; Stark 1939; Van der Meulen 1947) have provided valuable reference and broader distributions for the types and chronologies described here. In the course of the RASA Project intensive survey of Wadi Sana, it became apparent that different landforms with different erosion and deposition (silt terraces and bedrock terraces) can result in vastly differential preservation of small‐scale monuments originally of the same construction and age (McCorriston et al 2002), an illusion that can easily obscure distribution information.…”

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Gazetteer of small-scale monuments in prehistoric Hadramawt, Yemen: a radiocarbon chronology from the RASA-AHSD Project research 1996-2008

McCorriston¹,

Steimer-Herbet²,

Harrower³

et al. 2011

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

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This paper provides a new, interpretive gazetteer and chronology of Hadramawt’s highland monuments based on results from archaeological survey and test excavations by the RASA‐AHSD (Roots of Agriculture in southern Arabia‐Arabian Human Social Dynamics) Project. With the exception of a few incidental sightings and an unpublished pipeline survey, the prehistoric record of southern Yemen’s highland plateau has been largely unknown. There are few settlements, so that understanding human landscape history must begin with the numerous small‐scale stone monuments left by mobile people. With examples representing monuments from the fifth, fourth, third and first millennia BC, the corpus of small excavations and radiocarbon dates reported here provides the first guide to the monument types of South Arabian highlands. Monument building began under more moist conditions and appears to have commemorated animal sacrifices long before commemorating mortuary rites and interment. There appears to be a temporal break of 1000 years before the widespread and varied practices of Bronze Age tomb construction, which lasted through the third millennium BC. After another break in monument construction, tombs were reused in the first millennium BC, sometimes with successive ritual visits. The data presented offer new material for the interpretation of the lives and activities of prehistoric pastoralists throughout the Holocene.

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Gazetteer of small-scale monuments in prehistoric Hadramawt, Yemen: a radiocarbon chronology from the RASA-AHSD Project research 1996-2008

McCorriston¹,

Steimer-Herbet²,

Harrower³

et al. 2011

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

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‘A Very Worthy Lady’: Women Lecturing at the Royal Geographical Society, 1913–C.1940

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The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science Since 1660

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Ancient Agriculture in the Negev

Evenari¹,

Shanan²,

Tadmor³

et al. 1961

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Ancient Agriculture in the Negev Archeological studies and experimental farms show how agriculture was possible in Israel's famous desert. M. Evenari, L. Shanan, N. Tadmor, Y. AharoniThe Negev desert of Israel, with its numerous, clearly visible traces of an? cient civilizations dating back at least four to five thousand years, has attracted the attention of many scientists. Since Palmer (7) in 1871 described the general character of these civiliza? tions as well as the intriguing agricul? tural remnants that he observed in the area, the Negev has become a field of research for many phases of science.We have been working as a team in the Negev desert for five years with the specific aim of solving the enigma of the once flourishing agricultural civili? zations in a now barren desert. This team covers the fields of botany, archeology, ecology, hydrology, and water engineering, and this combination of experience and interests enabled us to correlate widely differing fields of observation.In this article we present some of our conclusions as to how the ancient civilizations maintained a thriving agriculture in the desert and also indicate their possible application in the future. Description of the area. The Negev Dr. Evenari is professor of botany at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Mr. Shanan is a hydrological engineer in Tel Aviv; Dr. Tadmor is a plant ecologist with the Ministry of Agriculture of Israel; and Dr. Aharoni is an instructor in the department of archeology of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 31 MARCH 1961 is shaped like a triangle (Fig. 1). Its base line stretches in the north from an imaginary line drawn from Gaza on the Mediterranean Sea, through Beer Sheva, to Ein Gedi on the Dead Sea. Its two sides stretch from Gaza and from Ein Gedi down to Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba. The 12,500 square kilometers of the Negev can be divided into the six following subregions: (i) the coastal strip; (ii) the lowlands and foothills; (iii) the central highlands; (iv) the sedimentary southern Negev, mostly consisting of rolling gravel plains; (v) the crystalline southern Negev representing the northeast corner of crystalline Sinai; and (vi) the Wadi Araba depression. The physiographic and climatic con? ditions vary from subregion to subregion, and the various civilizations naturally adapted their agricultural projects to these differing features. The densest settled areas have been discov? ered in the lowlands and the highlands, and since most of our investigations have been concentrated in these sub? regions, we will describe them briefly. The lowlands and foothills. This sub? region is a strip about 10 to 25 kilo? meters wide, bounded by the coastal region on the west and the central highlands on the east and covering about 150,000 hectares. The morpho-logical structure is made up mostly of Eocene limestone hills separating wide rolling plains, with the elevations rang? ing from 200 to 450 meters above sea level. This area contains the ancient towns of Nessanah, Sbeita, Ruheibeh, and Khalassah. A number o...

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An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast

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Gazetteer of small-scale monuments in prehistoric Hadramawt, Yemen: a radiocarbon chronology from the RASA-AHSD Project research 1996-2008

Gazetteer of small-scale monuments in prehistoric Hadramawt, Yemen: a radiocarbon chronology from the RASA-AHSD Project research 1996-2008

‘A Very Worthy Lady’: Women Lecturing at the Royal Geographical Society, 1913–C.1940

Ancient Agriculture in the Negev

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