Home on the Range: Late Neolithic Architecture and Subsistence in Jordan’s Black Desert

Rollefson, Gary O.

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_7

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“…It is important to note here that the Negev is not unique in these features or its long history, but is clearly a part of a larger general Saharo-Arabian desert cultural phenomenon (for parallels, e.g. Eddy & Wendorf 1999; Kennedy 2011; Rollefson 2022; Rosen & Rosen 2018).…”

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confidence: 98%

The Constructed Desert: A Sacred Cultural Landscape at Har Tzuriaz, Negev, Israel

Schwimer,

Galili,

Porat

et al. 2023

CAJ

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Past and present cultures perceive their natural landscape as an integral and vital component of their complex worlds, while particular landscape features and associated monuments built in selected locales become sacred and revered through stories, legends and rituals embedded in mundane and ceremonial events. The hyper-arid Har Tzuriaz area in the southern Negev, Israel, offers a case study of culture-geographic continuities over a chronologically cumulative archaeological sequence. The large set of well-preserved structures located adjacent to water sources, a massive escarpment and a major desert crossroads includes campsites, cult sites, rock-art sites, cairn fields and one desert kite (a large game trap). Cultural continuities and change can be traced from the sixth millennium bce through recent times, reflecting a dynamic system of meanings and interpretations of both the natural and the built landscape within one particular sacred area in the desert. These phenomena are exemplified in archaeological analyses of an open-air shrine, burial cairns, an isolated desert kite and a precise engraving of that kite dated 5000 years later, all in the general context of a dense concentration of surveyed sites.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%