LINEAR HOLLOWS IN THE JAZIRA, UPPER MESOPOTAMIA

Authors
WILKINSON TJ
Citation
Tj. Wilkinson, LINEAR HOLLOWS IN THE JAZIRA, UPPER MESOPOTAMIA, Antiquity, 67(256), 1993, pp. 548-562
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Archaeology,Archaeology
Journal title
Antiquity → ACNP
ISSN journal
0003598X
Volume
67
Issue
256
Year of publication
1993
Pages
548 - 562
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(1993)67:256<548:LHITJU>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
O.G.S. Crawford, founder of ANTIQUITY, flew in the 1920s over an Engli sh landscape where the grooves and lines cut into unploughed downlands showed the courses of roads and tracks since earliest times. Similar patterns of crop- and soil-marks in the rain-fed agricultural zone of the Middle East, when studied in the same spirit, also reveal the loca l and the long-distance routes of a proven great age.