Contents: 1) Coastal prehistory in the southern Red Sea Basin,
underwater archaeology, and the Farasan Islands (Geoff Bailey,
Abdullah AlSharekh, Nic Flemming, Kurt Lambeck, Garry Momber,
Anthony Sinclair & Claudio Vita-Finzi); 2) Chronologie et
evolution de l'architecture a Makaynun: la formation d'un centre
urbain a l'epoque sudarabique dans le Hadramawt (A. Benoist, O.
Lavigne, M. Mouton & J. Schiettecatte); 3) A preliminary study
on the materials employed in ancient Yemeni mummification and
burial practices (summary) (Stephen A. Buckley, Joann Fletcher,
Khalid Al-Thour, Mohammed Basalama & Don R. Brothwell); 4) From
Safer to Balhaf: rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline
route (Remy Crassard & Holger Hitgen); 5) Pastoral nomadic
communities of the Holocene climatic optimum: excavation and
research at Kharimat Khor al-Manahil and Khor al-Manahil in the Rub
al-Khali, Abu Dhabi (Richard Cuttler, Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit,
Anja Zander & Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti); 6) Flip the coin.
Preliminary results of compositional EDX analyses on south-east
Arabian coins from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (Parsival Delrue);
7) Spreading the Neolithic over the Arabian Peninsula (Philipp
Drechsler); 8) Water and waste in mediaeval Zabid, Yemen (Ingrid
Hehmeyer); 9) Tribal links between the Arabian Peninsula and the
Middle Euphrates at the beginning of the second millennium BC
(Christine Kepinski); 10) Rare photographs from the 1930s and 1940s
by Yihye Haybi, a Yemenite Jew from Sana: historical reality and
ethnographic deductions (Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper); 11) Stargazing
in traditional water management: a case study in northern Oman
(Harriet Nash); 12) Al Qisha: archaeological investigations at an
Islamic period Yemeni village (Audrey Peli & Florian Tereygeol,
Al-Radrad (al-Jabali): a Yemeni silver mine, first results of the
French mission (2006) (Lynne S. Newton); 13) A biographical sketch
of Britain's first Sabaeologist: Colonel W.F. Prideaux, CSI (Carl
Phillips & St J. Simpson); 14) The Arabian Corridor Migration
Model: archaeological evidence for hominin dispersals into Oman
during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene (Jeffrey Rose); 15) Ceramic
production in mediaeval Yemen: the Yadgat kiln site (Axelle
Rougeulle); 16) The word slm/snm and some words for "statue, idol"
in Arabian and other Semitic languages (Fiorella Scagliarini); 16)
"Transformation processes in oasis settlements in Oman" 2005
archaeological survey at the oasis of Nizwa: a preliminary report
(Juergen Schreiber); 17) Middle Palaeolithic - or what? New sites
in Sharjah, UAE (Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson &
Sabah Jasim); 18) Rites and funerary practices at Rawk during the
fourth millennium BC (Wadi 'Idim, Yemen) (T. Steimer-Herbet, J-F.
Saliege, T. Sagory, O. Lavigne & A. as-Saqqaf, in collaboration
with M. Mashkour & H. Guy); 19) The sources on the Fitna of
Masud b. Amr al-Azdi and their uses for Basran tribal history
(Brian Ulrich); 20) The beads of ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (An
De Waele); 21) Aspects of recent archaeological work at al-Balid
(Iafar), Sultanate of Oman (Juris Zarins); 22) Towards a new
theory: the state of Bani Mahdi, the fourth imamate in Yemen (Ahmad
b. Umar al-Zaylai).
General
Imprint: |
Archaeopress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies |
Release date: |
July 2007 |
First published: |
July 2007 |
Editors: |
Lloyd Weeks
• St John Simpson
(Senior Curator and Archaeologist, Department of the Middle East)
|
Dimensions: |
250 x 205 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
348 |
Edition: |
2007 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-905739-10-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
Archaeology by period / region >
General
|
LSN: |
1-905739-10-9 |
Barcode: |
9781905739103 |
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