QuarryScapes : ancient stone quarry landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Norway : NGU, Geological Survey of Norway, ©2009.
Description
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm.

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    Series
    • Special publication (Norges geologiske undersøkelse) ; 12. [More in this series]
    • Geological Survey of Norway, special publication, 0801-5861 ; 12
    Notes
    • Cover title.
    • Edited by N. Abu-Jaber, E.G. Bloxam, P. Degryse, and T. Heldal.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Ancient Egyptian quaries
    • an illustrated overview
    • Gypsum quarries in the northern Faiyum quarry landscape, Egypt: a geo-archaeological case study
    • The quarryscapes of Gerasa (Jarash), Jordan
    • Mineral fingerprinting of Egyptian siliceous sandstones and the quarry source of the Colossi of Memnon
    • Granite quarry survey in the Aswan region, Egypt: shedding new light on ancient quarrying
    • Preservation and promotion of the Sagalassos quarry and town landscape, Turkey
    • Whatever else happened to the ancient Egyptian quarries? An essay on their destiny in modern times
    • Constructing a quarry landscape from empirical data. General perspectives and a case study at the Aswan West Bank, Egypt
    • National inventory and database of ancient stone qurry landscapes in Egypt
    • New directions in identifying the significance of ancient querry landscapes: for concepts of landscape.
    ISBN
    • 9788273851383
    • 8273851389
    OCLC
    645273461
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