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Muhanna, Elias. “A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone.” The New Yorker, May 23, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-new-history-of-arabia-written-in-stone.
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Inscriptions, Al-Jallad explained, tend to cluster on higher ground, where nomadic herders could keep an easier watch for predators. In a landscape with no other traces of human civilization, the rocks preserved the nomads’ names and genealogies, along with descriptions of their animals, their wars, their journeys, and their rituals. There were prayers to deities, worries about the lack of rain, and complaints about the cruelty of Romans.
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- semitic languages
- historical linguistics
- genealogy databases
- surface survey archaeology
- Elias Muhanna
- archaeology of orality
- stones
- Michael Macdonald
- nomadic life
- safaitic script
- References
- Robert Hoyland
- Ali Al-Manaser
- inscriptions
- history of Islam
- Fred Donner
- Ahmad Al-Jallad
- stone inscriptions
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