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Mobile Peoples – Permanent Places: Nomadic Landscapes and Stone Architecture from the Hellenistic to Early Islamic Periods in North-Eastern Jordan (Paperback)
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Mobile Peoples – Permanent Places: Nomadic Landscapes and Stone Architecture from the Hellenistic to Early Islamic Periods in North-Eastern Jordan (Paperback)
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Mobile Peoples – Permanent Places explores the relationship
between nomadic communities who resided in the Black Desert of
north-eastern Jordan between c. 300 BC and 900 AD and the
landscapes they inhabited and extensively modified. Although these
communities were highly mobile, moving through the desert following
seasonal variation in natural resources, they significantly
invested in the landscapes they frequented by erecting highly
durable stone architecture, and by carving rock art and
inscriptions. Although these inscriptions, known as Safaitic, are
relatively well studied, the archaeological remains had received
little attention until recently. This book focuses on the
architectural features, including enclosures and elaborate burial
cairns, that were created in the landscape some 2000 years ago and
which were used and revisited on multiple occasions. It explores
how nomadic communities modified these landscapes by presenting new
data from remote sensing, field surveys, and excavations. To better
understand the purpose of these modifications and how this changed
through time, the landscape is further analysed on various temporal
and geographic scales. This book particularly deals with the
archaeological landscapes of the Jebel Qurma region of
north-eastern Jordan. It is part of the Landscapes of Survival
project, a research programme based at Leiden University that has
brought together both archaeologists and epigraphers to work on
this fascinating region.
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