Megalithic Jordan

Author : Gajus Scheltema
Publisher : American Center of Oriental Research
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000124574702

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Megalithic Jordan by Gajus Scheltema Pdf

Dolmens and standing stones from human prehistory are widely distributed in Jordan. Megalithic (Greek for large stone) architecture has been found in large areas of the Middle East. Megalithic Jordan is a delightful field guide of where to find and how to get to the major megalithic monuments in Jordan, and it covers other related stone constructions such as stone alignments, stone circles, cairns, cists, cup holes and rock-cut tombs. While the guide does not claim to exhaustively cover every stone monument in Jordan, it is an accessible introductory work on the subject and discusses with candor the problem of preserving the megalithic monuments from destruction resulting from urban expansion or human malfeasance. The author Gajus Scheltema was the Dutch Ambassador to the Kingdom of Jordan between 2003-2007. While living in Jordan Scheltema became interested in the dolmens and standing stones in the landscape and took on the task to review existing scholarship on these stones and document as many as he could possibly find. His wish to discover these sites became a desire to help to protect them.

Author : Luc Laporte,Jean-Marc Large,Laurent Nespoulous,Chris Scarre,Tara Steimer-Herbet
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803273211

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Megaliths of the World by Luc Laporte,Jean-Marc Large,Laurent Nespoulous,Chris Scarre,Tara Steimer-Herbet Pdf

Bringing together the latest research on megalithic monuments throughout the world, 150 researchers offer 72 articles, providing a region-by region account in their specialist areas, and a summary of the current state of knowledge. Highlighting salient themes, the book is vital to anyone interested in the phenomenon of megalithic monumentality.

Author : Stanislav Grigoriev,Yulia Vasina
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789692433

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The Megaliths of Vera Island in the Southern Urals by Stanislav Grigoriev,Yulia Vasina Pdf

The largest and brightest megalithic complex in Russia’s Ural Mountains is located on Vera Island, represented by three chambered megaliths and sanctuaries of the Eneolithic period (mid-4th - 3rd millennium BC). The oldest samples of stone sculpture in the Urals have been revealed within this complex.

Author : James A. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351375429

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Dolmens in the Levant by James A. Fraser Pdf

When Western explorers first encountered dolmens in the Levant, they thought they had discovered the origins of a megalithic phenomenon that spread as far as the Atlantic coast. Although European dolmens are now considered an unrelated tradition, many researchers continue to approach dolmens in the Levant as part of a trans-regional phenomenon that spanned the Taurus mountains to the Arabian peninsula. By tightly defining the term 'dolmen' itself, this book brings these mysterious monuments into sharper focus. Drawing on historical, archaeological and geological sources, it is shown that dolmens in the Levant mostly concentrate in the eastern escarpment of the Jordan Rift Valley, and in the Galilean hills. They cluster near proto-urban settlements of the Early Bronze I period (3700–3000 BCE) in particular geological zones suitable for the extraction of megalithic slabs. Rather than approaching dolmens as a regional phenomenon, this book considers dolmens as part of a local burial tradition whose tomb forms varied depending on geological constraints. Dolmens in the Levant is essential for anyone interested in the rise of civilisations in the ancient Middle East, and particularly those who have wondered at the origins of these enigmatic burial monuments that dominate the landscape.

Author : J.J.T. Doedens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004395909

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The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4 by J.J.T. Doedens Pdf

In The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4, Jaap Doedens offers an overview of the history of exegesis of the enigmatic biblical text about the ‘sons of God’, the ‘daughters of men’, and the ‘giants’.

Author : Steven Collins,Carroll M. Kobs,Michael C. Luddeni
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575063706

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The Tall al-Hammam Excavations, Volume 1 by Steven Collins,Carroll M. Kobs,Michael C. Luddeni Pdf

The Tall al-Hamman Excavations, Volume 1 is the first in a series of reports on the Tall al-Hammam Excavation Project, directed by Steven Collins of Trinity Southwest University and assisted by Gary Byers and Carroll Kobs, assistant dig directors. Co-author Mike Luddeni has been dig photographer since the inception of the Project. Excavations began in Jordan in 2005–2006 and have continued annually, without break, up to the present. This volume presents an overview of the site, with a period-by-period overview of Tall al-Hammam and its relationship to other sites in the vicinity in the Jordan Valley. It also includes the pottery profiles and assemblages and artifacts discovered in the course of these seasons. Future volumes will include in-depth excavation reports for specific areas of the Tall.

Author : K. Schath,H. Al-jarrah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781728394800

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Dolmenology: a Glossary of Terminology Used to Study Dolmens by K. Schath,H. Al-jarrah Pdf

This Glossary provides terminology thought to be helpful in describing dolmens and their subtle complex and artistic design. Detailed descriptions help define their Types and possibly variations that are significant to their use. Describing their location and place in the megalithic landscape may help to determine the culture and rituals that played out in the megalithic landscape.

Author : Alberto Pozzi
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781612332550

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Megalithism by Alberto Pozzi Pdf

Megalithism, or the art of using huge boulders to create sacred, pagan monuments and sites, still fascinates us today. How did Prehistoric man cut, transport, and place such enormous stones, some weighing up to 200 metric tons, without bulldozers, drills, and cranes? Yet primitive man, without the written word or wheel, created structures which still stupefy us in the 21st century, both due to their components and the precision used in positioning them. This book takes us back in time to the 5th-2nd millennia B.C. and helps us visualise the Stone Age world and its constructions - menhirs, dolmens, rows and circles of standing stones. Undoubtedly they were sacred places, used for pagan rituals and funerary purposes, but the author also gives us details of their astronomic and physical alignment, which clearly demonstrates the knowledge of the heavens these ancestors had and how they applied it without slide-rules, set squares, and theodolites. The high priests of ancient times could calculate when the solstices and equinoxes would occur and thus regulate the seasons for sowing and reaping. The author's careful and updated identification of all such structures leads us through 'Ancient European Megalithism' complete with the religious and social aspects of it and its pagan legacies. He does not neglect forms of 'sub-actual' megalithism either - the use of massive stones by peoples described as primitive but with a relatively advanced culture who lived in times closer to our own in Africa, Asia, and South America. The myths and legends arising from the megalithic structures are recounted here in detail; the author also describes megalithic art in the form of statue-stele and menhir statues, as well as the often intricate decoration carved on single stones and in construction such as dolmens, funerary mounds, astronomic observatories, and temples. He also describes studies and experiments on the methods of transport and construction used by Prehistoric peoples, together with conflicting opinions and theories. Amply illustrated with photographs and drawings, Megalithism guides the reader through every part of the megalithic world with smooth-flowing text that will be accessible to specialists and interested general public alike.

Author : Jeffrey Fleisher,Neil Norman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781493932313

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The Archaeology of Anxiety by Jeffrey Fleisher,Neil Norman Pdf

Recent efforts to engage more explicitly with the interpretation of emotions in archaeology have sought new approaches and terminology to encourage archaeologists to take emotions seriously. This is part of a growing awareness of the importance of senses—what we see, smell, hear, and feel—in the constitution and reconstitution of past social and cultural lives. Yet research on emotion in archaeology remains limited, despite the fact that such states underpin many studies of socio-cultural transformation. The Archaeology of Anxiety draws together papers that examine the local complexities of anxiety as well as the variable stimuli—class or factional struggle, warfare, community construction and maintenance, personal turmoil, and responsibilities to (and relationships with) the dead—that may generate emotional responses of fear, anxiousness, worry, and concern. The goal of this timely volume is to present fresh research that addresses the material dimension of rites and performances related to the mitigation and negotiation of anxiety as well as the role of material culture and landscapes in constituting and even creating periods or episodes of anxiety.

Author : Nicola Laneri
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976790

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Defining the Sacred by Nicola Laneri Pdf

Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any society and characterizable by a number of features. These include the establishment of intermediaries in the relationship between humans and the divine; the construction of ceremonial places for worshipping the gods and practicing ritual performances; and the creation ritual paraphernalia. Investigating the religious dimensions of ancient societies encounters problems in defining such elements, especially with regard to societies that lack textual evidences and has tended to lead towards the identification of differentiation between the mental dimension, related to religious beliefs, and the material one associated with religious practices, resulting in a separation between scholars able to investigate, and possibly reconstruct, ritual practices (i.e., archaeologists), and those interested in defining the realm of ancient beliefs (i.e., philologists and religious historians). The aim of this collection of papers is to attempt to bridge these two dimensions by breaking down existing boundaries in order to form a more comprehensive vision of religion among ancient Near Eastern societies. This approach requires that a higher consideration be given to those elements (either artificial -- buildings, objects, texts, etc. -- or natural -- landscapes, animals, trees, etc.) that are created through a materialization of religious beliefs and practices enacted by members of communities. These issues are addressed in a series of specific case-studies covering a broad chronological framework that from the Pre-pottery Neolithic to the Iron Age. (Cover illustration © German Archaeological Institute, photo N. Becker)

Author : Stefano Anastasio,Lucia Botarelli
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784911195

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The 1927–1938 Italian Archaeological Expedition to Transjordan in Renato Bartoccini’s Archives by Stefano Anastasio,Lucia Botarelli Pdf

This volume presents extensive photo-archives from the Italian excavations and surveys carried out in Transjordan between 1927 and 1938.

Author : Johannes Unsok Ro,Diana Edelman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110715200

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Collective Memory and Collective Identity by Johannes Unsok Ro,Diana Edelman Pdf

“Collective memory” has attracted the attention and discussion of scholars internationally across academic disciplines over the past 40−50 years in particular. It and "collective identity" have become important issues within Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies; the role collective memory plays in shaping collective identity links the two organically. Research to date on memory within biblical studies broadly falls under four approaches: 1) lexical studies; 2) discussions of biblical historiography in which memory is considered a contributing element; 3) topical explorations for which memory is an organizing concept; and 4) memory and transmission studies. The sixteen contributors to this volume provide detailed investigations of the contours of collective memory and collective identity that have crystallized in Martin Noth's "Deuteronomistic History" (Deut-2 Kgs). Together, they yield diverse profiles of collective memory and collective identity that draw comparatively on biblical, ancient Near eastern, and classical Greek material, employing one of more of the four common approaches. This is the first volume devoted to applying memory studies to the "Deuteronomistic History."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0415284007

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Bibliographie Internationale D'anthropologie by Anonim Pdf

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Author : Jordan. Dāʼirat al-Āthār al-ʻĀmmah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Jordan
ISBN : OSU:32435084727296

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حولية دائرة الآثار العامة by Jordan. Dāʼirat al-Āthār al-ʻĀmmah Pdf

Author : Eva Kaptijn
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agriculture, Ancient
ISBN : 9789088900297

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Life on the Watershed by Eva Kaptijn Pdf

The scarcity of water is a major problem in many parts of the Near East today and has been so in the past. To survive in such a region people should be able to structurally attain more water than rainfall alone can supply. The archaeology of this area should not only identify when people inhabited such a region and what the character of this habitation was, but also how people were able to survive in such a region and why they chose to live there in the first place. In this book these questions have been studied for the Zerqa Triangle; a region in the middle Jordan Valley around Tell Deir 'Alla (Jordan). By means of a detailed pedestrian archaeological survey the intensity of habitation of the region from the Neolithic to early modern periods is investigated. Efforts have been undertaken to reconstruct the agricultural practices in the various periods and simultaneously the means by which the different communities were able to practice agriculture; in other words, how did they irrigate the land? By focussing on the different social responses of communities, conclusions have been drawn on how and why people managed to create a living in this arid, but potentially very fertile region. This book not only contributes to the ongoing discussion of the archaeology of marginal areas, but also provides a huge amount of new data on the archaeology of the Jordan Valley, both in the form of newly discovered settlement sites from several different periods as well as remains from several more inconspicuous types of human activity present in the countryside.