IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Late Bronze/Iron Age Extramural Shrines of the Arid Southern Levant and the Syro-Arabian Desert Cultic Architecture
Autor/es:
JUAN MANUEL TEBES
Lugar:
Viena
Reunión:
Congreso; 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (10 ICAANE); 2016
Institución organizadora:
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Resumen:
Five extra-mural shrines dated to the Late Bronze/Iron Ages have been excavated in the arid areas south and south-east of the Levant (Negev and south-central Transjordan). Although they present features congruent with the long tradition of local desert cultic architecture, most previous treatments of these shrines have focused on their relationship with the religions of the contemporary settled communities of the Levant and Egypt. This article reexamines this cultic architecture in the light of current knowledge of the desert cults of the Syro-Arabian desert and steppes, from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic periods. Although the different elements of the local cults, particularly the building of open-air courtyard shrines and the use of standing stones, were present in several prehistoric and historical periods, these sanctuaries provide the earliest evidence of the incorporation of elements imported from the religions of the neighbouring settled societies as integral components of the desert cult, being adapted to the cultic heritage of the nomadic semi-pastoral peoples that inhabited in the area.