Tell el-Ḥibr: A Rock Shelter Occupation of the Fourth Millennium B. C. E. in the Jordanian Bâdiya
Excavations at a rock shelter in eastern Jordan have provided new evidence for exploitation of the dry steppe about the middle of the fourth millennium B. C. E. The findings of the el-Ḥibr excavations, together with a growing corpus of evidence from elsewhere regarding the presence of human populati...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1992
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1992, Volume: 287, Pages: 5-23 |
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| Summary: | Excavations at a rock shelter in eastern Jordan have provided new evidence for exploitation of the dry steppe about the middle of the fourth millennium B. C. E. The findings of the el-Ḥibr excavations, together with a growing corpus of evidence from elsewhere regarding the presence of human populations in the semiarid zones of the Near and Middle East, provide material for a discussion of the nature of relations between "desert and sown" in that period. Analyses of the excavated material and data from a major survey program in the region (The Burquʿ/Ruweishid Project) suggest that groups using the deep steppe in the fourth millennium B. C. E. were nomadic, with a mixed, multiresource economy, in contact with discrete areas within the verdant zones. It is cautiously suggested that such evidence can be used to explore the origins of state-tribe relations that characterize the history of the Near and Middle East in later periods, up to the present. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357136 |
