Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

In the 1920s pilots overflying the Transjordan panhandle discovered thousands of enigmatic
stone-built structures which the beduin called ''The Works of the Old Men'. We now know …

At the cusp of food production, Near Eastern societies adopted new territorial practices,
including archaeologically visible sedentism and nonsedentary social defenses more …

As an archaeologically less-known region, Southwest Arabia offers new insights that can
contribute to interregional understanding of agriculture's beginnings. The relative …

Prehistoric stone structures are prominent and well-studied in the Levantine desert margins.
In northern Arabia, however, such structures have received less attention. This article …

High circular tombs (HCTs) in southern Arabia provide valuable information for
anthropologists who seek fundamental understanding of the transition of ancient peoples …

This paper provides a new, interpretive gazetteer and chronology of Hadramawt's highland
monuments based on results from archaeological survey and test excavations by the RASA …

During the protohistoric period, a dominant burial practice in the deserts of the southern
Levant involved above-ground, stone-built tombs, associated with the semi-nomadic …

This paper presents recent research by the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and
North Africa (EAMENA) project at the Universities of Oxford and Leicester, and Jérémie …

Recent research has produced an increasingly nuanced but still incomplete understanding
of Neolithic through Iron Age communities in southwestern Arabia. Present evidence …