Mediterranean
Africa is defined as a region between the Mediterranean sea and the
Sahara, extending from the Gibraltar strait to Suez, via the Maghreb,
the coast and hinterland of the Gulfs of Hammamet and Sirt, the upland
Gebel Akdar (Cyrenaica) and including the Nile Delta. Its width varies
along its length and has fluctuated over the Holocene, in the North due
to post-glacial sea-level rise and in the South thanks to shifting
ecotones with the Sahara (crudely, a wetter earlier Holocene environment
trending, through several sharp oscillations, to a drier regime broadly
akin to the present by the 4th millennium BC), thereby creating a
ribbon of land variably ca. 50-250+ km deep.
athrun, libya (photo: giulio lucarini)
Research Question 1
What
do internal networks of interaction reveal about changing forms and
ranges of mobility and exchange, as well as intensity of connectivity
and isolation (the latter critical as growing Holocene aridity from the
4th millennium BC began to split the region into variably internally
resilient habitat islands), socio-economic activity and possibly
identities?
Research Question 2
Why
does our information reduce so sharply from the 4th millennium BC
onwards until the threshold of the colonial Iron Age? To what extent can
this be attributed to aridification in the Mediterranean zone, as
undoubtedly holds good for the Sahara, or is it a product of failing to
look for the right kinds of material and sites, and of their relative
visibility?
Jebel akhdar, libya (photo: Giulio lucarini)
Research Question 3
What
are the reason of the very late dispersion of farming across the
Mediterranean littoral? Current evidence seems to indicate internal
variation in time and space across Mediterranean Africa. This includes a
long-lived mosaic of foraging, pastoral and mixed ways of, often
evincing a very broad multi-spectral exploitation of resources; and,
from the 6th millennium BC, confined enclaves of farming that long
remained restricted to the Nile and around the Gibraltar strait.
(Lucarini 2016).
Research Question 4
Was
Mediterranean African pre-Phoenician maritime engagement (beyond the
obvious exception of the Nile Delta) as limited as usually assumed? If
so, why, and what explains apparent exceptions in time and space,
notably across the strait of Gibraltar (a 6th millennium BC southward
farming transfer, and definite 3rd -2nd millennium BC trading links
signaled by pottery, metalwork and ivory) and the Sicilian narrows
(central Mediterranean obsidian in north Africa)?
The
dataset describes the archaeological sites and villages now partially
covered by the water of the Mosul Dam Reservoir. The dataset offers for
the first time information on c.150 archaeological sites detected during
a survey carried out by the Iraqi State Organization for Antiquities
and Heritage in 1980.
Subject
Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences
Keyword
Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Iraq, Kurdistan Region or Iraq, Landscape Archaeology, GIS, Survey
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This data has been described in the following data paper: [insert JOAD citation]
This repository contains the
data necessary for the realization of a least cost network for camel
transport during antiquity (Ptolemaic and Roman period) in the Egyptian
eastern desert. The details of the network construction and data
processing can be found in the the associated paper and datapaper.
Study paper:
Manière, L., Crépy, M., Redon, B. (2020) Building a Model to reconstruct
the Hellenistic and Roman Road Networks of the Eastern desert of Egypt,
a Semi-Empirical Approach Based on Modern Travelers’ Itineraries. In
review
Datapaper:
Manière, L., Crépy, M., Redon, B. (2020) Geospatial data from the
“Modelling the Hellenistic and Roman Road Networks of the Eastern desert
of Egypt, a Semi-Empirical Approach Based on Modern Travelers’
Itineraries” paper. In review
[First posted in AWOL 6 January 2009. Updated 28 February 2022]
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This site currently hosts new articles as they are published,
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The oath
formulas of Matthew 23 lend credible support to a pre-70 date of
composition for the Gospel of Matthew, even if they cannot establish
this date conclusively.
The
translation of 'Son of God' in five Arabic gospel manuscripts is
examined, providing insights for textual criticism and for contemporary
translation practices.
A study of
language denoting correspondence in ancient usage shows that
descriptions of heaven as a sanctuary in Hebrews point towards a
pre-existent spatial reality, now made accessible by Jesus.
Recent
palaeoenvironmental work has shed new light on two bodies of water on
Egypt’s eastern frontier with Sinai, illuminating their roles in the
biblical events involving entering and departing Egypt.
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of collective burial sites discovered in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
and parts of Turkey. This data was collected from published excavation
reports and monographs on over 650 sites. This dataset can serve as a
starting point for studying the regional diversity of material culture,
burial practices and changes in these over the centuries.
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Gavin McDowell, Ron Naiweld, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (eds)
his volume is dedicated to the cultural and
religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the
Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these
communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and
material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by
leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and
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sufficient attention in scholarship.
The volume is divided into four parts. The first
focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on
non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the
final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of
"rabbinization" as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts.
Diversity and Rabbinization
is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its
complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and
allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in
Judaism during the first millennium CE.
L’École Pratique des Hautes Études has kindly contributed to the publication of this volume.
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