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The “Works of the Old Men” in Arabia: remote sensing in interior Arabia
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In the 1920s, pilots overflying the Transjordan panhandle discovered thousands of enigmatic stone-built structures which the beduin called ‘The Works of the Old Men'.About:
This article is published in Journal of Archaeological Science.The article was published on 2011-12-01. It has received 69 citations till now.read more
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The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula: Deserts, dispersals, and demography
TL;DR: The emerging picture of Arabia suggests that numerous dispersals of hominin populations into the region occurred, and subsequently followed autochthonous trajectories, creating a distinctive regional archeological record.
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Archaeology of Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, 300 BC–AD 700
TL;DR: A review of recent research on the topic and assesses its significance to wider scholarly debates on scale, organization, connectivity, agency, and social cohesion in ancient trade and exchange.
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From features to fingerprints: A general diagnostic framework for anthropogenic geomorphology:
TL;DR: Human societies have been reshaping the geomorphology of landscapes for thousands of years, producing anthropogenic geomorphic features ranging from earthworks and reservoirs to settlements, roads, and roads.
Should criminologists be feeling lucky!? Applying Google Maps and Google Street View in criminological research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the results of earlier studies in related fields and a handful of criminological studies to discuss how these online mapping applications can trigger new research questions, and how they could be considered a valuable methodological addition to criminology research.
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Contributions of GIS and Satellite-based Remote Sensing to Landscape Archaeology in the Middle East
TL;DR: In this paper, the coevolution of landscape approaches and geospatial tools in Middle Eastern archaeology is explored, with the focus on how to best document and manage rapidly disappearing ancient landscapes, understand landscape formation processes, identify and interpret economic, environmental, and social influences that result in long-term settlement and land use patterns, and recognize and contextualize the interplay between environment and human agency in the evolution of ancient economies and transformations in socio-organizational complexity.
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Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the transition in human history from the hunting-and-gathering to the farming way of life, which is documented first hand in the book.
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The Desert "Kites" of the Badiyat Esh-Sham and North Arabia
Alison Betts,Svend Helms +1 more
TL;DR: Les recherches archeologiques, fouilles and prospections, conduites dans les regions steppiques du Proche-Orient n'ont ete menees de facon systematique que depuis une date recente que jusqu'a des periodes plus recentes de the technologie de the chasse en zone steppique.
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Desert kites in the Negev desert and northeast Sinai: their function, chronology and ecology.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present radiocarbon dates, infrared stimulated luminescence ages and chronology of material culture to show that desert kites in this region were established in the late 4th-early 3rd millennia BC and ceased to function by the mid-2nd millennium BC.
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Role of mass-kill hunting strategies in the extirpation of Persian gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) in the northern Levant
TL;DR: A remarkable deposit of bones of Persian gazelle from fourth millennium BCE levels at Tell Kuran in northeastern Syria provides insight into the unsustainable hunting practices that disrupted gazella migratory patterns and helped set the course for the virtual extinction of this species and possibly other steppe species in the Levant.
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Google earth and the archaeology of Saudi Arabia. A case study from the Jeddah area
David Kennedy,M.C. Bishop +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed interpretation of one "window" east of Jeddah forms the basis for illustrating the richness of the heritage and how the satellite imagery can be exploited to shed important light on the character and development of the human landscape.