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- Apr 2024
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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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- historical linguistics
- stones
- semitic languages
- Robert Hoyland
- inscriptions
- Elias Muhanna
- nomadic life
- archaeology of orality
- history of Islam
- Ahmad Al-Jallad
- stone inscriptions
- Ali Al-Manaser
- Fred Donner
- genealogy databases
- surface survey archaeology
- read
- References
- Michael Macdonald
- safaitic script
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