20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

MD Jones, N Abu‐Jaber, A AlShdaifat… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for
studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region …

[图书][B] Revolutions in the desert: The rise of mobile pastoralism in the southern Levant

S Rosen - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon

HS Groucutt, PS Breeze, M Guagnin… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Between 10 and six thousand years ago the Arabian Peninsula saw the most recent of the
'Green Arabia'periods, when increased rainfall transformed this generally arid region. The …

Persistent place-making in prehistory: the creation, maintenance, and transformation of an Epipalaeolithic landscape

LA Maher - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2019 - Springer
Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people
engaged with their surroundings, including both how they strategized resource use …

The Holocene humid period in the Nefud Desert: Hunters and herders in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, Saudi Arabia

M Guagnin, P Breeze, C Shipton, F Ott… - Journal of Arid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Archaeological surveys and excavations in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, north-western
Saudi Arabia, have identified a well-preserved early-to mid-Holocene landscape. Two types …

The Timnian culture complex in the southern Levantine deserts: A rationale

SA Rosen - Journal of Arid Environments, 2025 - Elsevier
An historical overview of the idea of a Timnian culture is presented, including discussion of
early definitions. The final systematization of the Timnian Culture Complex, and the …

The black desert drone survey: new perspectives on an ancient landscape

AC Hill, YM Rowan - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the results of a large scale, drone-based aerial survey in northeastern
Jordan. Drones have rapidly become one of the most cost-effective and efficient tools for …

Life-sized Neolithic camel sculptures in Arabia: A scientific assessment of the craftsmanship and age of the Camel Site reliefs

M Guagnin, G Charloux, AM AlSharekh… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The life-sized, naturalistic reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia have been severely
damaged by erosion. This, coupled with substantial destruction of the surrounding …

Middle to Late Quaternary palaeolandscapes of the central Azraq Basin, Jordan: Deciphering discontinuous records of human-environment dynamics at the arid …

CJH Ames, CE Cordova, K Boyd, C Schmidt… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Azraq oasis in the Eastern Desert of Jordan has produced considerable stone artefacts
attributed to the early Palaeolithic, yet relatively few data are available regarding the …

A 'marginal'region with many options: the diversity of Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age socio-economic activities in the hinterland of Jawa

B Müller-Neuhof - Levant, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In the course of the last four years, surveys in the eastern hinterland of Jawa in the Northern
Badia of Jordan have revealed abundant traces of Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age socio …