Resident birds, 37 species (Rock Martin).‘Birds of Faynan’ has 5 categories, covering 88 of the 187 recorded (a few occur in more than one category). I can thoroughly recommend this enjoyable and succinct ethnographic approach to the inhabitants and habitats of a small part of the Aqaba Governate of Jordan.įollowing the Introductory Material, there are 6 sections.īird Habitats: These are 5 in number, well-illustrated and are discussed in the context of Conservation. This book evaluates the changes in bird species composition through time in Wadi Faynan (Map 2), noting that the predominance of buzzard bones suggests that feathers were important symbolically. Here, the remains have been found of at least 23 bird species that no longer occur in the area. The Wadi contains buried former villages from 10,000 BP (when farming began in the region), one of which is the prosaically named WF16 archaeological site. Jordan’s Highway 65 skirts its western edge (Map 1). Wadi Faynan in Jordan lies roughly one quarter of the distance from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba of the Red Sea. Map 1: Location of Wadi Faynan between the Dead & Red Seas Nebras Maslamani is at the Council for British Research in Jordan’s British Institute working in cultural heritage management for sustainable development in Jordan.Judith White is a curator within the Bird Group at the Natural History Museum, UK.He is a researcher at Reading University Department of Archaeology. Dr Ben Greet is a classicist and archaeologist, specialising in the cultural attitudes towards birds in prehistoric and classical societies.Fares Khoury is Professor of Animal Ecology and Ornithology at the American University in Madaba, Jordan, and co-founder of the Jordan BirdWatch Association.Steven Mithen is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, UK.
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The catalogue page shows a small image of the cover picture click on that and it will download (Central Archive of the University of Reading). The electronic version is downloadable from. Hardcopy price is uncertain: Amazon and Book Depository are out of stock at. University of Reading, Reading, UK, pp197. Steven Mithen, Fares Khoury, Ben Greet, Judith White and Nebras Maslamani. Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus by Fares Khoury
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