Hans Georg K. Gebel
Neolithic of the Southwest Asia, Chalcolithic/ EB of arid Arabia
Neolithic sedentarisation, socioeconomic (territoriality, commodification) and cognitive studies
Neolithic chipped stone industries, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, tec.
Neolithic chipped stone industries
Chalcolithic/ EB arid land use (pastoral mobility, oasisation) and social change in Arabia
Bedouin ethno-anthropology
Embedded Archaeology
Phone: 00491732160205
Address: Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Free University of Berlin, Fabeckstr. 23/25, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Neolithic sedentarisation, socioeconomic (territoriality, commodification) and cognitive studies
Neolithic chipped stone industries, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, tec.
Neolithic chipped stone industries
Chalcolithic/ EB arid land use (pastoral mobility, oasisation) and social change in Arabia
Bedouin ethno-anthropology
Embedded Archaeology
Phone: 00491732160205
Address: Institut für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Free University of Berlin, Fabeckstr. 23/25, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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pastoral-sepulchral landscapes encountered mobile well-trough and dam-based shepherd
cultures sustained by the moisture episodes of Arabia’s Mid-Holocene. The Early and Late
Rajajil Cultures are best understood through the key sites Qulban Beni Murra, Rajajil and
Rasif; this contribution’s updated synthesis presents them in terms of their social structures,
cognitive spheres (ritual, deathlore, habitus constitution), hydraulic competency and, and in
terms of their potential as a co-promoter of Arabia’s earliest oasis socio-economies (protooases),
which finally established the sustainable sedentarisation of the Arabian Peninsula by
shaded horticulture. Based on our increasing northwest Arabian evidence, this contribution
also contains an updated set of its research hypotheses (Version 4), or a model of how this
general sociohydraulic trajectory from mobile herding to sedentary horticulture on the
Arabian Peninsula was expressed regionally through the Rajajil Cultures. In this context,
the research’s epistemological and heuristic challenges regarding the cultures’ poor material
expression and restricted archaeobiological preservation are discussed.
pastoral-sepulchral landscapes encountered mobile well-trough and dam-based shepherd
cultures sustained by the moisture episodes of Arabia’s Mid-Holocene. The Early and Late
Rajajil Cultures are best understood through the key sites Qulban Beni Murra, Rajajil and
Rasif; this contribution’s updated synthesis presents them in terms of their social structures,
cognitive spheres (ritual, deathlore, habitus constitution), hydraulic competency and, and in
terms of their potential as a co-promoter of Arabia’s earliest oasis socio-economies (protooases),
which finally established the sustainable sedentarisation of the Arabian Peninsula by
shaded horticulture. Based on our increasing northwest Arabian evidence, this contribution
also contains an updated set of its research hypotheses (Version 4), or a model of how this
general sociohydraulic trajectory from mobile herding to sedentary horticulture on the
Arabian Peninsula was expressed regionally through the Rajajil Cultures. In this context,
the research’s epistemological and heuristic challenges regarding the cultures’ poor material
expression and restricted archaeobiological preservation are discussed.
for the sustainable benefit of modern humans, just in the sense of Applied Ethno-Anthropology.