ABSTRACT

Recent excavations undertaken by the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSA) project have recovered significant skeletal material, evidence for funerary offerings, including jewelry, and the earliest chronometrically dated domestic dog in the Arabian Peninsula. Despite being heavily disturbed by recent looting, these monumental funerary structures were found to be collective burials dating to the 5th and 4th millennia b.c. The evidence recovered from these graves provides new insight into the social and funerary landscapes of northwestern Arabia during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, shedding light upon issues of social memory, territoriality, and monumentality in the Middle Holocene of the Arabian Peninsula.

摘要

沙特阿拉伯王国航空考古（AAKSA）项目最近进行的发掘工作已恢复了重要的骨骼材料，包括珠宝在内的丧葬祭品的证据，以及阿拉伯半岛最早的按年代计时的家养狗。尽管近期抢劫被严重干扰，发现这些巨大的陪葬结构为集体墓葬年代为第5和第4千年BC。从这些坟墓中获得的证据为新石器时代和石器时代的西北阿拉伯社会和丧葬景观提供了新的见识，阐明了阿拉伯半岛中全新世的社会记忆，地域性和纪念性问题。