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Jebel Bishri in Focus: Remote sensing, archaeological surveying, mapping and GIS studies of Jebel Bishri in central Syria by the Finnish project SYGIS
Minna Lönnqvist, Markus Törmä, Kenneth Lönnqvist and Milton Nuñez
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This book presents the work of the Finnish project SYGIS on Jebel Bishri, a mountainous region in Central Syria. The main focus of this archaeological project was to unambiguously locate discovered sites on the Earth's surface in order to provide a starting point for the recording and creation of data to help with the cultural heritage management of Syria, as well as to help prevent looting and to aid in the preservation of cultural remains in this vulnerable area. The sites encountered during this project covered a time span of nearly 0.5 million years and in a series of chronological chapters the development of human cultures in the Jebel Bishri region over the course of time is explored. The interaction of people between different environmental zones and the cultural longue durée emerge as themes of particular importance.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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1. INTRODUCTION
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2. THE COVERAGE IN MACRO-SCALE: SATELLITE DATA SOURCES AND THEIR APPLICATION
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3. THE COVERAGE IN MEDIUM- AND MICRO-SCALE: CLOSE-UPS TO THE GROUND AND BENEATH
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4. MACRO-SCALE IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND LANDSCAPE STUDIES
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5. A PERSPECTIVE ON SPATIO-TEMPORAL MOBILITY OF HUNTERS AND GATHERERS
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6. VISTAS ON ANCIENT PASTORAL NOMADISM IN THE CENTRAL AREAS OF THE MOUNTAIN
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7. STUDYING PASTORAL GRAZING POTENTIAL BY USING CLUSTER ANALYSIS AND SITE CATCHMENT ANALYSIS
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8. ANCESTRAL AND RITUAL VIEWS OF PASTORALISTS OVER AN ANCIENT “SILICON VALLEY”
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9. OUTLOOKS TO CUNEIFORM TEXTS AND THE MESOPOTAMIAN LORE
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10. THE EVIDENCE FROM THE EUPHRATES SIDE OF JEBEL BISHRI: SEDENTARIZATION, SEDENTARY SITES AND SYRO-MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION
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11. GLIMPSES TO SITES ON THE ROMAN DESERT FRONTIER
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12. THE “BISHRI CORRIDOR” BETWEEN THE DESERT FRONTIER ZONE AND THE EUPHRATES LIMES
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13. DOCUMENTATION AND VIEW-SHEDS ON THE EUPHRATES LIMES
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14. THE COMING OF THE ARABS AND CHANGING BEDOUINS
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15. A WINDOW TO “LIVING ARCHAEOLOGY”: BEDOUIN CAMPS AND VILLAGES
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16. CONCLUDING REMARKS
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INDEX OF SITES AND COORDINATES
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Published: 2011
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407307923 (paperback)
- 9781407337845 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2230