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Camel hunting or camel raiding?
Author(s) -
Macdonald M.C.A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
arabian archaeology and epigraphy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.384
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1600-0471
pISSN - 0905-7196
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0471.1990.tb00005.x
Subject(s) - ethnography , geography , archaeology , ancient history , history , anthropology , sociology
Recently, several depictions of camels pursued by horsemen with spears have been interpreted as hunting scenes. References to ethnographic descriptions of bedouin life in the 19th and early 20th centuries suggest these may in fact be scenes of raiding rather than hunting.