Special Publication 12

The  spectacular monuments and cities of the ancient Near East are testament to an industrial past where large-scale stone procurement remains unequalled. Stone quarries are often forgotten as key archaeological sites, even though they are rich in material remains and of crucial significance if we are to understand social and technological parctices of the past.

Contents

• Introduction / N. Abu-Jaber, E.G. Bloxam, P. Degryse and T. Heldal
• Ancient Egyptian quarries - an illustrated overview / James A. Harrell and Per Storemyr
• Gypsum quarries in the northern Faiyum quarry landscape, Egypt: a geo-archaeological case study / Tom Heldal, Elizabeth G. Bloxam, Partick Degryse, Per Storemyr and Adel Kelany
• The quarryscapes of Gerasa (Jarash), Jordan / Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad al Saad and Nihad Smadi
• Mineral fingerprinting of Egyptian siliceous sandstones and the quarry source of the Colossi of Memnon / Robert W.O'B. Knox, Rainer Stadelmann, James A. Harrell, Tom Heldal and Hourig Sourouzian
• Granite quarry survey in the Aswan region, Egypt: shedding new light on ancient quarrying / Adel Kelany, Mohamed Negem, Adel Tohami and Tom Heldal
• Preservation and promotion of the Sagalossos quarry and town landscape, Turkey / Patrick Degryse, Ebru Torun, Markku Corremans, Tom Heldal, Elizabeth G. Bloxam and Marc Waelkens
• Whatever else happened to the ancient Egyptian quarries? An essay on their destiny in modern times / Per Storemyr
• Constructing a quarry landscape from empirical data. General perspectives and a case study at the Aswan West Bank, Egypt / Tom Heldal
• National inventory and database of ancient stone quarry landscapes in Egypt / Azza Shawarby, Elshaminaa Fathy, Marwa Sadek, Naguib Amin, Rawda Yousri and Sara Kayser
• New directions in identifying the significance of ancient quarry landscapes: four concepts of landscape / Elizabeth G. Bloxam