Carving Interactions: Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert, North-Eastern Jordan (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
228
Utgivningsdatum
2019-10-31
Förlag
Archaeopress
Illustrationer
216 figures, 32 tables (129 colour pages); 32 Tables, unspecified; 216 Figures
Dimensioner
287 x 206 x 13 mm
Vikt
726 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781789693119

Carving Interactions: Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert, North-Eastern Jordan

av Nathalie Sterled Brusgaard
Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-10-31
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The Safaitic rock art of the North Arabian basalt desert is a unique and understudied material, one of the few surviving traces of the elusive herding societies that inhabited this region in antiquity. Yet little is known about this rock art and its role in the desert societies. Why did these peoples make carvings in the desert and what was the significance of this cultural practice? What can the rock art tell us about the relationship between the nomads and their desert landscape? This book investigates these questions through a comprehensive study of over 4500 petroglyphs from the Jebel Qurma region of the Black Desert in north-eastern Jordan. It explores the content of the rock art, how it was produced and consumed by its makers and audience, and its relationship with the landscape. This is the first-ever systematic study of the Safaitic petroglyphs from the Black Desert and it is unique for the study of Arabian rock art. It demonstrates the value of a material approach to rock art and the unique insights that rock art can provide into the relationship between nomadic herders and the wild and domestic landscape.
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Nathalie sterled Brusgaard (PhD, Leiden University) is an archaeologist specialising in rock art studies and social zooarchaeology. Nathalie has worked on excavations in the Netherlands and Germany and on rock art surveys in Jordan and the USA.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Jebel Qurma landscape Chapter 3 Investigating content, production, and consumption Chapter 4 Desert images Chapter 5 Traces of production and consumption Chapter 6 Places of production and consumption Chapter 7 Images and interactions Bibliography Appendix A Terms and definitions Appendix B Sigla and references for Safaitic inscriptions Appendix C Identification manual for Safaitic rock art Appendix D List of sites with Safaitic carvings

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