Classification des sépultures à superstructure lithique dans le Levant et l’Arabie occidentale: (IV e et IIIe millénaires avant J.-C.)

Steimer-Herbet, Tara

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“…roofed stone masonry burial structures documented in the Sinai (Bar-Yosef et al 1977, 1986Palmer 1872), but also known from central Saudi Arabia and Yemen. These structures at Maitland's Mesa and Wisad Pools have parallels with mortuary monuments documented across a large area of southwestern Asia (Braemer et al 2001;Steimer-Herbet 2004;Zarins et al 1981). Another area of less concentrated building activity is comprised of structures found along the western and northern slopes, generally located on the slope where access to the largest slabs are near, yet below the steepest aspect of the slope (FIG.…”

Section: Wadi Al-qattafi and Maitland's Mesasupporting

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The “land of conjecture:” New late prehistoric discoveries at Maitland’s Mesa and Wisad Pools, Jordan

Rowan

Rollefson

Wasse

et al. 2015

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th-4th millennia B.C.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the region. Technological expertise developed in craft production, and the volume and diversity of status goods increased, particularly in funerary contexts. Mortuary and other ritual practices became increasingly pronounced. General study syntheses, however, rarely include more than a cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (i.e., Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and Syria). Recent investigations indicate that intensive exploitation of the regions may date to these late prehistoric periods, yet this evidence has been difficult to attribute to specific chronological period or cultural affiliations. The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project investigates two regions for a potential florescence of building and occupation during the late prehistoric periods in the eastern desert of Jordan.

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Section: Wadi Al-qattafi and Maitland's Mesasupporting

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The “land of conjecture:” New late prehistoric discoveries at Maitland’s Mesa and Wisad Pools, Jordan

Rowan

Rollefson

Wasse

et al. 2015

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“…Wall tombs have been documented through the arid margins of western Arabia from the Sinai (Eddy & Wendorf 1998; Rothenberg 1979) to the Ramlat Sabatayn (unpublished report of the French mission). Bronze Age HCTs also belong to a broader geographic phenomenon of third‐millennium burial monuments in the arid margins of Arabia (Steimer‐Herbet 2004) and find chronological parallels in eastern Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Syria (Porter 2009; 2002; Steimer‐Herbet 2011; in press; Al‐Sharekh 2006: 198–199). Triliths are known throughout arid Saudi Arabia (Zarins, Murad & Al‐Yish 1981), eastern Oman (de Cardi, Doe & Roskams 1977), Dhufar (Zarins 2001) and southern Yemen.…”

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“…The results await full publication by the German team, but the RASA Project recorded this monument as a dolmen‐like structure on stylistic grounds, elsewhere dated to the late fourth–early third millennium BC (e.g. Braemer, Cleuziou & Steimer, 2003; Steimer‐Herbet 2004). Set on a bedrock terrace adjacent to the low alluvium, the dolmen‐like structure offers no precise evidence for a construction date, but it is situated in the low terrace favoured by middle fifth‐millennium monument builders of platformed structures and is surrounded by surface remains dating from the seventh, third and first millennia BC.…”

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“…The well‐dated example here was deliberately destroyed so that the structure is impossible to reconstruct, but the geometric motifs can be related to poorly dated pecked images elsewhere. Some are on dolmens, megalithic structures of the late fourth to early second millennium BC (Steimer‐Herbet 2004; Palumbo 1992; Prag 1995; Savage 2010; Steimer‐Herbet 2004–2005; 2006; Steimer ‐ Herbet & Criaud 2008; Vinitzky 1990; Zohar 1992). A particularly well‐preserved dolmen (RASA 98‐1) (Fig.…”

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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

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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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“…The platform's dimensions and evidence of longevity and maintenance all indicate that it should be considered as a monument (following Osborne 2014). In addition to the disposal and commemoration of the dead, the platform's east-west alignment with the winter solstice reveals a knowledge of astronomical phenomena that is common to other structures in Arabia and elsewhere (Steimer-Herbet 2004). The platform constituted a ceremonial space for social and ritual activities, providing a material anchor for social memory and identity construction (Scarre 2011(Scarre , 2018, as well as a territorial marker, for the mobile pastoralists of the area.…”

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Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis: a sixth-millennium BC monumental stone platform and surrounding burials

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Classification des sépultures à superstructure lithique dans le Levant et l’Arabie occidentale: (IV e et IIIe millénaires avant J.-C.)

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The “land of conjecture:” New late prehistoric discoveries at Maitland’s Mesa and Wisad Pools, Jordan

The “land of conjecture:” New late prehistoric discoveries at Maitland’s Mesa and Wisad Pools, Jordan

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

Marking the sacral landscape of a north Arabian oasis: a sixth-millennium BC monumental stone platform and surrounding burials

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