Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 41 2011,
Papers from the forty-fourth meeting, held at the British Museum,
London, 22–24 July 2010. Contents: 1) Some observations on women
in Omani sources (Olga Andriyanova); 2) Archaeological landscape
characterization in Qatar through satellite and aerial photographic
analysis, 2009 to 2010 (Paul Breeze, Richard Cuttler & Paul
Collins); 3) Fishing kit implements from KHB-1: net sinkers and
lures (poster) (Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi); 4) The
distribution of storage and diversion dams in the western mountains
of South Arabia during the Himyarite period (Julien Charbonnier);
5) Assessing the value of palaeoenvironmental data and
geomorphological processes for understanding Late Quaternary
population dynamics in Qatar (Richard Cuttler, Emma Tetlow &
Faisal al-Naimi); 6) Les fortifications de Khor Rorī –
‘Sumhuram’ (poster) (Christian Darles); 7) Places of contact,
spheres of interaction. The Ubaid phenomenon in the central Gulf
area as seen from a first season of reinvestigations at Dosariyah
(Dawsāriyyah), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Philipp Drechsler0;
8) khushub musannadah (Qurān 63. 4) and Epigraphic South Arabian
ms3nd (Orhan Elmaz); 9) Walled structures and settlement patterns
in the south-western part of Dhofar, Oman (poster) (Roman Garba
& Peter Farrington);10) The wall and talus at Barāqish,
ancient Yathill (al-Jawf, Yemen): a Minaean stratigraphy (Francesco
G. Fedele); 11) Through evangelizing eyes: American missionaries to
Oman (Hilal al-Hajri); 12) Quantified analysis of long-term
settlement trends in the northern Oman peninsula (Nasser Said
al-Jahwari); 13) Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba
and DMT – New research by the German Archaeological Institute in
Ethiopia (Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen & Mike
Schnelle); 14) The Kadhima Project: investigating an Early Islamic
settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay (poster) (Derek Kennet,
Andrew Blair, Brian Ulrich & Sultan M. al-Duwīsh); 15)
Typology of incense-burners of the Islamic period (Sterenn Le
Maguer); 16) A geomorphological and hydrological underpinning for
archaeological research in northern Qatar (Phillip G. Macumber);
17) Recent investigations at the prehistoric site RH-5 (Ras
al-Hamrā, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) (Lapo Gianni Marcucci,
Francesco Genchi, Émilie Badel & Maurizio Tosi); 18)
Geoarchaeological investigations at the site of Julfār (al-Nudūd
and al-Matāf), Ras al-Khaymah, UAE: preliminary results from the
auger-hole survey (poster) (Mike Morley, Robert Carter &
Christian Velde); 19) Conserving and contextualizing national
cultural heritage: the 3-D digitization of the fort at al-Zubārah
and petroglyphs at Jabal al-Jusāsiyyah, Qatar (poster) (Helen
Moulden, Richard Cuttler & Shane Kelleher); 20) Reassessing
Wādī Debayan (Wādī al-Dabayān): an important Early Holocene
Neolithic multi-occupational site in western Qatar (poster) (Faisal
al-Naimi, Kathryn M. Price, Richard Cuttler & Hatem Arrock);
21) Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ras Ushayriq in
northern Qatar and some observations on the occurrence of date
presses (Andrew Petersen); 22) Relations between southern Arabia
and the northern Horn of Africa during the last millennium BC
(David W. Phillipson); 23) Bayt Bin Ātī in the Qattārah oasis: a
prehistoric industrial site and the formation of the oasis
landscape of al-Ain, UAE (Timothy Power & Peter Sheehan); 24)
The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid
synchronism (Alessia Prioletta); 25) Al-Suwaydirah (old al-Taraf)
and its Early Islamic inscriptions (Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid);
26) Investigations in al-Zubārah hinterland at Murayr and
al-Furayhah, north-west Qatar (poster) (Gareth Rees, Tobias Richter
& Alan Walmsley); 27) Pearl fishers, townsfolk, Bedouin, and
shaykhs: economic and social relations in Islamic al-Zubārah
(Tobias Richter, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley); 28)
Contemporary tribal versions of local history in Hadramawt (Mikhail
Rodionov); 29) A view of the defence strategy of Muharraq, a tribal
town in the Gulf (poster); 30) Solaiman Abd al-Rahmān al-Theeb,
New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sīj in the region
of al-Ulā, Saudi Arabia (Abdulla Al-Sulaiti); 31) Al-Zubārah
Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site – a
master plan for its site management, preservation, and presentation
(poster) (Ingolf Thuesen & Moritz Kinzel); 32) Oman and Bahrain
in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians’ Arabian periphery (Brian
Ulrich); 33) From the port of Mocha to the eighteenth-century tomb
of Imām al-Mahdī MuΉammad in al-Mawāhib: locating architectural
icons and migratory craftsmen (Nancy Um); 34) Drummers of the Najd:
musical practices from Wādī al-Dawāsir, Saudi Arabia (Lisa
Urkevich); 35) The Jewel of Muscat Project: reconstructing an early
ninth-century CE Shipwreck (Tom Vosmer, Luca Belfioretti, Eric
Staples & Alessandro Ghidoni); 36) Lateral fricatives and
lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (Janet C.E.
Watson & Munira Al-Azraqi).
General
Imprint: |
Archaeopress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies |
Release date: |
July 2011 |
Firstpublished: |
June 2011 |
Editors: |
Janet Starkey
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Dimensions: |
250 x 205 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
450 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-905739-40-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-905739-40-0 |
Barcode: |
9781905739400 |
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