Landscape History of Hadramawt : The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008 (Monumenta Archaeologica)

McCorriston, Joy (EDT)/ Harrower, Michael J. (EDT)

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA（2020/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 584 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781950446124
• DDC分類 939.49

Full Description

The rugged highlands of southern Yemen are one of the less archaeologically explored regions of the Near East. This final report of survey and excavations by the Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project addresses the development of food production and human landscapes, topics of enduring interest as scholarly conceptualizations of the Anthropocene take shape. Along with data from Manayzah, site of the earliest dated remains of clearly domesticated animals in Arabia, the volume also documents some of the earliest water management technologies in Arabia, thereby anchoring regional dates for the beginnings of pastoralism and of potential farming.

The authors argue that the initial Holocene inhabitants of Wadi Sana were Arabian hunters who adopted limited pastoral stock in small social groups, then expanded their social collectives through sacrifice and feasts in a sustained pastoral landscape. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience of archaeologists including not only those working in Arabia, but more broadly those interested in the ancient Near East, Africa, South Asia, and in Holocene landscape histories generally.

Contents

CONTENTS


List of Figures

List of Tables

Arabic Foreword

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Editors and Contributors

Glossary Conventions


Part I Research Objectives, Geological and Environmental Context

Introduction to Research
Joy McCorriston

Geological and Environmental Background
Joy McCorriston

Paleohydrology, Geomorphology, and Paleoecology
Eric A. Oches, Joshua Anderson, Joy McCorriston, Kenneth Cole, and Michael J. Harrower


Part II Archaeological Survey: Methods and Site Distributions

History of the RASA Survey: Methodologies from Broad Exploration to Intensive Studies
Joy McCorriston and Michael J. Harrower

Topic-Specific Survey Approaches
Joy McCorriston, Michael J. Harrower, and Remy Crassard

Survey Results and Landforms: A Statistical Analysis
Joy McCorriston


Part lll Pleistocene to Early Holocene: Hunter-Foragers and the Introduction of Domesticates

Middle Paleolithic Populations of WadI Sana
Remy Crassard

Manayzah: A Tenninal Pleistocene- Early Holocene Rockshelter Occupation
Remy Crassard, Joy McCorriston, Louise Martin, and Thomas S. Dye

Early Holocene Forager Encampments: Rockshelters and the Gravel Bar Site
Joy McCorriston, Remy Crassard, Dawn Walter, and Louise Martin


Part IV Middle Holocene: A Pastoralist Landscape

Excavations at the Kheshiya Cattle Skull Ring and Neolithic Monument
Joy McCorriston

The Kheshiya Cattle Skull Ring: Zooarchaeological Analyses
Louise Martin with a contribution by Joe Roe

Appendices I to 6
Louise Martin, Lisa Usman, Cecilia Anderung, and Anders Gotherstrom

Neolithic Stone Platforms: Survey and Excavations
Joy McCorriston

Water Management and Irrigation along WadI Sana
Michael J Harrower


Part V Middle to Late Holocene: The Social Life of Pastoralists

Survey and Excavation of Small-Scale Monuments
Joy McCorriston, Michael J Harrower, Tara Steimer-Herbet , Kimberly Williams, and Jennifer Everhart

Rawk: Statue-Menhirs and Anthropomorphic Statues of Ancient WadI 'Idim
Tara Steimer-Herbet

Testing at Munayder (WadI '!dim)
Joy McCorriston

Graffiti and Pictographs
Joy McCorriston, 'Abdal' aziz Bin 'Aqil, and Alessia Prioletta


Part VI Synthesis and Conclusions

A Bayesian Approach to Chronology of the Southern Joi
Joy McCorriston and Thomas S. Dye

Conclusions: A Landscape History of the Southern Joi
Joy McCorriston

Gossary
Index