Resource Spotlight | “Indonesian Megaliths: A Forgotten Cultural Heritage” by Tara Steimer-Herbet
Indonesian Megaliths
A Forgotten Cultural Heritage
by Tara Steimer-Herbet
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Tara Steimer-Herbet
Tara Steimer-Herbet is a graduate of Paris 1 - Panthéon La Sorbonne where she carried out her doctoral research on developing a methodological approach to Middle Eastern archaeology. Her research led her to become particularly interested in megalithism, and the way this phenomenon is expressed in the cultural and funerary practices of the Levant and western Arabia during the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. In 2005 she excavated a sanctuary in Hadramawt (Yemen) and since 2010 has focussed on the megalithic phenomenon in Indonesia. Her research efforts currently concentrate on the preservation of megalithic monuments in the Akkar region of Lebanon as well as on characterising the megalithic phenomenon of the 3rd and 2d millennium BC in the Kuwait region of al-Subiya, Dr Steimer currently teaches ‘archaeological methodology’ and ‘megalithism in the world’ at the Laboratory of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Author | Tara Steimer-Herbet
Publisher | Archaeopress Archaeology
Date of Publication | September 2018