Pierres levées, stèles anthropomorphes et dolmens
Subtitle: Standing stones, anthropomorphic stelae and dolmens
By: sous la direction de/under the direction of Tara Steimer-Herbet
Contributors: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux (Lyon, France)
Series: BAR international series -- 2317; BAR international series -- 2317.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781407309002
Subjects: Dolmens; Menhirs; Megalithic monuments; Antiquities
Other titles: Standing stones, anthropomorphic stelae and dolmens
Description: "Focusing on the Middle East, a collection of recent research on dolmens and standing stones."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Structures cultuelles et funeraires des IV et III millenaires dans le Sud jordanien desertique: l'occupation de la region d'al-Thulaythuwat / Wael Abu Azizeh; title: A menhir discovered at Wadi es-Saqra, Amman district / Jordan; title: Standing stones in Jordan: some remarks on occurrence, typology and dating / Hugo Gajus Scheltema; title: The megalithic necropolises to the west of Homs (Syria) / Angel Armendariz et al.; title: Al-Rawda et le culte des pierres dressees en Syrie a l'age du Bronze / Corinne Castel; title: Pierres dressees, betyles, urbanisme et espace religieux a Mari: nouvelles recherches au 'massif rouge' (Syrie, 2006-2007) / Patrick Maxime Zehil Michel; title: Pierres dressees dans la region do Mutawwaq (Jordanie) / Juan A Fernandez-Tresguerres Velasco; title: Upright stones of the neolithic village 'Ayn Ghazal: location and function (Jordan) / Zeidan A. Kafafi; title: Praising the Almighty: late prehistoric desert sanctuaries in Wadi Ramm (Jordan) / Gary O. Rollefson; title: Late prehistoric standing stones of the Tihamah coastal plain, Yemen: cumulative review / Lamya Khalidi, Edward Keall; title: Anthropomorphic stelae in ancient Hadramawt (Yemen) / Joy McCorriston; title: The world beyond the tells: pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria / Jennie Bradbury, Graham Philip; title: Qui dresse des pierres au Proche-Orient? / Christophe Nicolle; title: Pierres levees et monuments commemoratifs: l'apport des textes de l'Euphrate syrien / Lionel Marti.