Juris Zarins

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Juris Zarins ( Latvian Juris Zariņš ; * 1945 in Germany) is a US-Latvian Near Eastern archaeologist who conducts research primarily in the frankincense countries of Oman and Yemen .

Zarins was born as a refugee in Germany at the end of World War II . Shortly after he was born, his parents emigrated to the United States. He completed an archeology degree at the University of Nebraska in 1967 with a bachelor's degree (BA). At the University of Chicago he received his doctorate in 1976 with a thesis on Mesopotamia. He was archaeological advisor to the Antiquities Authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia before he was appointed to Missouri State University in 1978 . After his retirement in 2006, he devoted himself to a research project in Oman.

Juris Zarins gained research experience in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman. He was an archaeologist on Ranulph Fiennes ' Transarabia expedition , which discovered the ancient city of Ubar in 1992.

One of his most controversial theses is that the biblical Garden of Eden was located at the tip of the Persian Gulf , where the Tigris and Euphrates flow into the sea. To do this, he evaluated Landsat images from space, among other things . According to his theory, the biblical river Gihon corresponds to the Karun river in Iran and the Pishon river corresponds to the Wadi-Batin river system. His theory is supported by CA Schlabach but has been heavily criticized by the rest of the archaeological community.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Archeology Fund
  2. ↑ Missouri State University ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Department of Sociology and Anthropology @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / soc-ant.missouristate.edu
  3. ↑ CA Schlabach in Focus Magazine ( memento of the original from June 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / focusmagazine.org

Publications

  • The domestication of Equidae in third millennium BC Mesopotamia.
  • Essays on the late prehistory of the Arabian peninsula.
  • Pastoralism in southwest Asia: the second millenium BC.
  • The land of incense: archaeological work in the Governorate of Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman, 1990-1995.
  • Early Settlement of Southern Mesopotamia 2.

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personal data
SURNAME Zarins, Juris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Latvian archaeologist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany