Yorke Rowan | Petroglyphs and Kites in the Black Desert, Jordan: Connecting Art and Landscape

Presented by Yorke Rowan, Senior Research Associate Professor in Archaeology, Oriental Institute
"Petroglyphs and Kites in the Black Desert, Jordan: Connecting Art and Landscape"
**This is an at home lecture, please excuse the audio and video quality.
The eastern panhandle of Jordan includes the Black Desert, a harsh basalt-strewn region with a single asphalt road and few water sources. Few archaeological research projects operated in the region with the exception of pioneering investigations by Betts and Helms in the 1970s and 1980s. With the initiation of the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project in 2008, Rowan and his team began to recognize that thousands of structures, previously unknown, undated, and of unknown function, clustered the landscape. In this lecture, Yorke Rowan discusses techniques used to map and identify petroglyphs and kites, animal hunting traps, in this isolated region of Jordan.
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[@sherylcrowe3255]

Thank you so much for such a wonderful presentation.

[@ISAC_UChicago]

Thank you for joining us!

[@bless5116]

Thanks for sharing this, very interesting. Much appreciation to the Oriental Institute for making these types of lectures and information more accessible.

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Subscribed this week after eating most of the history and archeological videos on youtube.
O.I is a breath of fresh air.

[@DoomKitty3000]

Delighted to see an update on this topic.

[@ISAC_UChicago]

Glad you enjoyed the lecture!

[@MrOtzelot]

i always strive forward to your lectures

[@philphish]

This was incredibly interesting, thank you all for your efforts

[@Dosadniste2000]

Bless you guys.

[@oklu_]

so interested in this.

[@dancostello6465]

Interesting cabinet structures.

[@aliuyar6365]

İt was a wonderland.

[@Strauss-]

Hells yeah

[@AivarasLileika]

You can find similar V shape structures also in Libyan desert:
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[@krumminsch]

👏🏻!

[@RonJohn63]

2:15 is the start of the lecture.

[@DragonHeartTree]

Does each enclosure have a slot or entrance thru which visibility in a south by southeast direction is possible? If so then, taken together with other details, they fulfill the main requirements set forth by Dr. Anthony Peratt of Los Alamos Labs (New Mexico) in his three part paper on an ancient, long-lasting energetic aurora event (synchrotron radiation-emitting) that was memorialized in Neolithic petroglyphs and pictographs the world over. See his three part series at plasmauniverse.info/NearEarth.html . Paper entitled “Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity” begins the series.

[@adearthical]

Christ. What a godawful place that is. It HAD to be wetter back in the day. What self respecting organism would reside there of their own free will?

[@Zaroffmom]

Jeremy Williams it was a marsh like area because the reeds were there

[@RonJohn63]

17:33 Explicitly states "reeds in marshes". How much more evidence that it was (at least seasonally) wet do you need?

[@domagalito]

The Princess of Tisul , she lay in the coffin for 800 million years ... @t
maybe it's an interesting topic to make a video :)

[@samlucas9233]

I too enjoy fairy tales

[@mischelle9530]

Ok so you could tell what the animals were but not the people 🤔😳😐

[@RonJohn63]

People didn't leave many bones. And people bones looks a whole lot alike.