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<p class="MsoNormal">Das Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">und<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">der Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">laden zur Buchpräsentation ein:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Marta Luciani (Ed.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">The Archaeology of North Arabia. Oases and Landscapes</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Mittwoch, 22. März 2017, 17:30 Uhr<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Theatersaal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1010 Wien, Sonnenfelsgasse 19<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Programm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Begrüßung: <i>Barbara Horejs</i> (Direktorin des Instituts für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vortrag: <i>Marta Luciani</i> (Professorin für Altorientalische Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte am Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Südlich der südlichen Levante. Neue Forschungen aus dem Norden der arabischen Halbinsel<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen-kommunikation/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/article/nordarabien-revisited/">Weitere Informationen</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Archaeology of North Arabia: Oases and Landscapes</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> provides us with the proceedings of the namesake international congress organised at the University of Vienna. Its rich list of contributions
both on recent results of field activities and new considerations on different settlement patterns and historical and cultural processes within North Arabia makes this volume a state-of-the-art account of the multiple scholarly pursuits in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The innovative topics are connected both to field research and interpretative anthropological approaches: from the oasis formation paradigm, the debate on crops, on local types of agriculture and water management systems
in different desert and oases landscapes, and on the date of appearance of date palm cultivation, to funerary and ceremonial landscapes in their transition and transformation from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze and Iron Ages; from the ground-breaking presence
of Syro-Levantine metal weapons in early second millennium BCE graveyards of the Northern Hejaz, the phenomenon of large-scale diffusion of oases-produced pottery wares, the attestation of chariots on rock art, and the challenges of modern-day archaeology
and cultural resource management, down to the concept of environmental differentiation and identity, between mobility and connectivity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">New data and the multi- and transdisciplinary methodology espoused by the volume dramatically change our understanding of the social and cultural development, especially of social complexity, of an area often neglected
in scholarly studies in the past. These proceedings, therefore, contribute substantially in positioning the archaeology of North Arabia into the broader perspective of the archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the Neolithic to the pre-Islamic period and
will hopefully become a standard work for understanding the Arabian Peninsula for years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Mag. Ulrike Schuh, BA<br>
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften<br>
Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie (OREA)<br>
Hollandstraße 11–13<br>
1020 Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">E-Mail: orea@oeaw.ac.at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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