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Linear hollows in the Jazira, Upper Mesopotamia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T. J. Wilkinson
T. J. Wilkinson*
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Oriental Institute, 1155 E 58th Street, Chicago IL 60637-1569, USA
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Abstract

O.G.S. Crawford, founder of ANTIQUITY, flew in the 1920s over an English 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 local and the long-distance routes of a proven great age.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993, pp. 548 - 562
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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