Milton Nunez

Jebel Bishri in Focus (Bar International) Milton Nunez

This report presents the work of the Finnish Jebel Bishri project, which surveys and maps the sites of visible human activity in this mountainous region of eastern Syria by remote sensing and field walking. The volume reconstructs the changing landscape and environment, as well as changing contours of human activity and settlement over the last half a million years in a series of chronological chapters. The interaction of people between different environmental zones and the cultural longue duree emerge as themes of particular importance.