Monumentality, Social Memory, And Territoriality In Neolithic-Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia
JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY(2021)
Abstract
Recent excavations undertaken by the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSA) project have recovered significant skeletal material, evidence for funerary offerings, including jewelry, and the earliest chronometrically dated domestic dog in the Arabian Peninsula. Despite being heavily disturbed by recent looting, these monumental funerary structures were found to be collective burials dating to the 5th and 4th millennia b.c. The evidence recovered from these graves provides new insight into the social and funerary landscapes of northwestern Arabia during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, shedding light upon issues of social memory, territoriality, and monumentality in the Middle Holocene of the Arabian Peninsula.
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remote sensing, aerial photography, collective burial, funerary practice, Saudi Arabia, AlUla, Middle Holocene
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