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- Title
Prehistoric small scale monument types in Hadramawt (southern Arabia): convergences in ethnography, linguistics and archaeology.
- Authors
Bin 'Aqil, Abdalaziz Ja'afar; McCorriston, Joy
- Abstract
The authors report new understanding of the prehistoric monuments of Hadramawt (Yemen) using archaeological fieldwork, linguistic terminology and ethnography. The stone tombs, platforms and alignments are shown to have experienced particularly interesting life histories. Passing travellers add stones and bury camels, shrines are reconditioned and dismantled to construct goat pens. It is clear that only this kind of multi-disciplinary expertise can hope to define the prehistoric sequence in an arid and rocky mountain landscape in which non-literate pastoral peoples have left few other traces.
- Subjects
HADRAMAWT (Yemen : Province); YEMEN (Republic); TOMBS; ETHNOLOGY; LINGUISTICS -- Terminology; FIELD research; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Antiquity, 2009, Vol 83, Issue 321, p602
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00098860