The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation from the Neolithic to the Iron AgeCambridge University Press, 19 մյս, 2014 թ. - 309 էջ Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world. This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of this region from c. 9000 to 800 BC. Peter Magee argues that a unique social system, which relied on social cohesion and actively resisted the hierarchical structures of adjacent states, emerged during the Neolithic and continued to contour society for millennia later. The book also focuses on how the historical context in which Near Eastern archaeology was codified has led to a skewed understanding of the multiplicity of lifeways pursued by ancient peoples living throughout the Middle East. |
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Ecological and Environmental Diversity in Arabia | 14 |
70003000 BC | 46 |
Eastern Arabia from 3000 to 2000 BC | 87 |
The Bronze Age in Western Arabia | 126 |
Eastern Arabia from 2000 to 1300 BC | 152 |
Humans Dromedaries and the Transformation ofAncient Arabia | 197 |
Arabia from 1300 to 800 BC | 214 |
Arabia and the Ancient Near East | 259 |
Adaptation and Social Formation in Ancient Arabia | 275 |
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agriculture al-Ain al-Hajjar ancient animals Arabian Gulf archaeological archaeozoological Bahrain Bronze Age buildings burials century BC ceramics Cleuziou and Tosi coast coastal copper culture date palm desert Dilmun domesticated dromedaries dromedary early second millennium East eastern Arabia economic evidence excavations exploitation Failaka falaj Figure Highlands Hili Højlund Holocene Holocene Moist Phase important indicates inhabitants inscriptions Iran Iron Age irrigation island Jebel Buhais Kassite kilometers Magan Mesopotamia meters millennia mountains Muweilah Nafud Neolithic northern Arabia noted oasis occupation ofArabia ofthe Photo pottery Potts Qala’at al-Bahrain rainfall Ramlat recent region rock art Rub al-Khali Saar Saudi Arabia second millennium BC Sharjah social softstone vessels South Arabian southeast Arabian southeastern Arabia southern Levant southern Mesopotamia stone subsistence strategy suggests Tayma Tell Abraq Temple texts third millennium BC tion trade Ubaid Uerpmann and Uerpmann Umm an-Nar period United Arab Emirates Wadi Suq wild dromedaries Yemen zones