Pierres levées, stèles anthropomorphes et dolmens / Standing Stones, Anthropomorphic Stelae and Dolmens 9781407309002, 9781407338804

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L’éditeur scientifique de cet ouvrage, Tara Steimer-Herbet, travaille sur les monuments funéraires et cultuels de la Préhistoire récente depuis 1992 au Levant et depuis 1997 en péninsule Arabique. Elle a pu mener de front jusqu’en 2008 des recherches sur deux terrains : la Syrie du sud et le Hadramawt oriental au Yémen. Ces régions désertiques et semi-désertiques ont des faciès géographiques similaires mais ont été occupées de manières différentes. Ce colloque a été, pour elle, l’occasion de réunir des collègues travaillant sur des vestiges présentant des caractéristiques communes mais dans des zones relativement éloignées. The editor of this book, Tara Steimer-Herbet (Ph. D.), is an archaeologist specializing in megalithic funerary and cultic monuments. She has worked in the Levant since 1992 and in the Arabian Peninsula since 1997. Her research has focused on two regions: southern Syria and the western Hadramawt region of Yemen. Desert and semi-desert areas have similar features but their settlement is quite different. Dr SteimerHerbet convened this colloquium of colleagues performing similar studies in distant regions to collectively explore the background and cultural identity that the Levant and Arabia share.

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MAISON DE L'ORIENT ET DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE JEAN POUILLOUX

Pierres levées, stèles anthropomorphes et dolmens Standing Stones, Anthropomorphic Stelae and Dolmens Sous la direction de / Under the direction of

PIERRES LEVEES, STELES ANTHROPOMORPHES ET DOLMENS

This international colloquium on Standing stones, anthropomorphic stelae and dolmens – Cultic aspects of the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula assembled a diverse group of twenty-five researchers who, based on data collected through their excavations, surveys or epigraphic studies, have contributed original material on the various expressions of ritual, both funerary and domestic, in the Levant and the Arabia peninsula. For the first time, archaeologists working on the ancient eras and on relatively distant geographic locations gathered to review the state of knowledge on the subject of these large stone monuments. During the colloquium, we were able to establish that standing stones, statue-menhirs, sanctuary and funerary monuments were erected in areas with similar environmental conditions, desert and semi-desert regions, stretching from Yemen to Syria. This publication provides researchers with new material on cultural practices in the protohistory of the Levant and Arabian Peninsula.

STEIMER-HERBET (Ed)

Ce colloque international, Pierres levées, stèles anthropomorphes et dolmens – Aspect cultuels des IVe et IIIe millénaires au Levant et en péninsule Arabique, a réuni 25 chercheurs de toutes nationalités qui ont, au cours de leurs fouilles, de leurs prospections ou de l’étude des textes, mis au jour une documentation originale sur l’expression des cultes funéraires et publics tant au Levant que dans la péninsule Arabique. Pour la première fois des archéologues, travaillant sur des périodes anciennes et sur des zones géographiques relativement éloignées, se sont réunis pour faire le bilan des connaissances sur le sujet. Au cours de ce colloque, on a pu mettre en évidence que les pierres dressées, les statues-menhirs, les sanctuaires et les monuments funéraires sont édifiés dans des régions présentants des conditions environnementales similaires, contextes désertiques et semi-désertiques allant du Yémen à la Syrie. Cette publication met à la disposition des chercheurs un ensemble de documents inédits sur les pratiques cultuelles des périodes protohistoriques au Levant et en péninsule Arabique.

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PIERRES LEVEES, STELES ANTHROPOMORPHES ET DOLMENS STANDING STONES, ANTHROPOMORPHIC STELAE AND DOLMENS

Tara Steimer-Herbet

BAR International Series 2317 2011 13/12/2011 11:38:42

MAISON DE L'ORIENT ET DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE JEAN POUILLOUX

Pierres levées, stèles anthropomorphes et dolmens Standing Stones, Anthropomorphic Stelae and Dolmens Sous la direction de / Under the direction of

Tara Steimer-Herbet

BAR International Series 2317 2011

ISBN 9781407309002 paperback ISBN 9781407338804 e-format DOI https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407309002 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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