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03336aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 76863B7A4DE711E4A85DE8D9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141007010118 008 130503t20132012gw ab b 100 0 eng d 020 $a 3832533133 (pbk.) 020 $a 9783832533137 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)841753604 040 $a OHX $b eng $e rda $c OHX $d HLS $d CGU $d OCLCQ $d YDXCP $d I8H $d OCLCF $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a a-jo--- 050 4 $a DS154.9.P48 $b M46 2013 072 7 $a DS $2 lcco 245 00 $a Men on the rocks : $b the formation of Nabataean Petra : proceedings of a conference held in Berlin, 2-4 December 2011 / $c M. Mouton & S.G. Schmid (editors). 264 1 $a Berlin : $b Logos, $c 2013. 300 $a 361 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 30 cm. 490 1 $a Supplement to the Bulletin of Nabataean studies ; $v 1 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a Petra in modern southern Jordan is universally known as one of the most frequented touristic sites in the Near East, inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list. Modern visitors are attracted by the romantic aspect of the rock-cut tomb façades, heavily contrasting in their baroque stile with the desert like surrounding of the rocky and arid landscape.These monuments were the result of the long time presence of the Arab tribe of the Nabataeans who made Petra their capital when they became, at least partially, sedentarised during the Hellenistic period, i.e between the late 4th to late 1st centuries BCE.How exactly this process of sedentarisation happened, how the site of Petra changed from a temporary dwelling place of a small Bedouin tribe to one of the blinking capitals of the ancient Near East that attracted - as it is the case today - visitors from all over the world, was the subject of a three years research program, jointly sponsored by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). At the end of the program, an international conference, held in Berlin in December 2011, brought together several dozen of scholars from all over the world in order to pinpoint the state of research on the Formation of the Nabataean capital.The contributions of the present volume focus on questions related to the natural environment of the site, on the geology and geography as well as on architecture, small finds and social dynamics, probably the clue for a better understanding of the functioning of the Nabataean kingdom and its capital Petra. 651 0 $a Petra (Extinct city) $v Congresses. 650 0 $a Nabataeans $v Congresses. 650 0 $a Excavations (Archaeology) $z Petra (Extinct city) $z Petra (Extinct city) $v Congresses. 651 0 $a Petra (Extinct city) $x Antiquities $v Congresses. 650 7 $a Antiquities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810745 650 7 $a Excavations (Archaeology) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917564 650 7 $a Nabataeans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032123 651 7 $a Jordan $z Petra (Extinct city) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896928 655 7 $a Conference proceedings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423772 700 1 $a Mouton, Michel. 700 1 $a Schmid, Stephan G. 830 0 $a Supplement to the Bulletin of Nabataean studies ; $v 1. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111032832.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=76863B7A4DE711E4A85DE8D9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search