Pierres levees steles anthropomorphes et dolmens / Standing stones anthropomorphic stelae and dolmens

Focusing on the Middle East, a collection of recent research on dolmens and standing stones. Contents: 1) Structures cultuelles et funeraires des IV et III millenaires dans le Sud jordanien desertique: loccupation de la region dal-Thulaythuwat (Wael Abu Azizeh); 2) A menhir discovered at Wadi es-Saqra, Amman district (Jordan); 3) Standing stones in Jordan: some remarks on occurrence, typology and dating (Hugo Gajus Scheltema); 4) The megalithic necropolises to the west of Homs (Syria) (Angel Armendariz et al.); 5) Al-Rawda et le culte des pierres dressees en Syrie a lage du Bronze (Corinne Castel); 6) Pierres dressees, betyles, urbanisme et espace religieux a Mari: nouvelles recherches au massif rouge (Syrie, 2006-2007) (Patrick Maxime Zehil Michel); 7) Pierres dressees dans la region do Mutawwaq (Jordanie) (Juan A Fernandez-Tresguerres Velasco); 8) Upright Stones of the Neolithic Village Ayn Ghazal: Location and Function (Jordan) (Zeidan A. Kafafi); 9) Praising the Almighty: Late Prehistoric Desert Sanctuaries in Wadi Ramm (Jordan) (Gary O. Rollefson); 10) Late prehistoric standing stones of the Tihamah coastal plain, Yemen: cumulative review (Lamya Khalidi, Edward Keall); 11) Anthropomorphic stelae in ancient Hadramawt (Yemen) (Joy McCorriston); 12) The world beyond the tells: pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria (Jennie Bradbury, Graham Philip); 13) Qui dresse des pierres au Proche-Orient? (Christophe Nicolle); 14) Pierres levees et monuments commemoratifs: lapport des textes de lEuphrate syrien (Lionel Marti).