Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 46, 2016
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 24 to 26 July 2015
Edited by Janet Starkey Edited by Orhan Elmaz
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(May 2016)
ISBN: 9781784913632
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Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, the only international academic forum that meets annually for the presentation of research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula.
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international academic forum that meets annually for the presentation of research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula. It focuses on the fields of archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, and numismatics from the earliest times to the present day. A wide range of original and stimulating papers presented at the Seminar is published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies and reflects the dynamism and scope of the interdisciplinary event. The Proceedings present the cutting edge of new research on Arabia and include reports of new discoveries in the Peninsula. They are published each spring in time for the subsequent Seminar, which is held in July. The main foci of the Seminar in 2015, in descending order of the number of papers presented in each session were North Arabia, South Arabia and Aksum, Archaeological Survey and Field Methods, Bronze and Iron Ages in Eastern Arabia, Islamic Archaeology, and Neolithic Archaeology. In addition, there were sessions on Recent Cultural History in Arabia, and Heritage Management in Arabia, as well as a special session on the Nabataean world titled ‘Beyond the “rose-red” city: the hinterland of Petra and Nabatean rural sites’, which featured a total of six papers. This volume also includes notes in memoriam on Professor Andrzej Zaborski (1942-2014), Professor Ordinarius at the Jagellonian University of Cracow, who specialized in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, Semitic and Cushitic in particular.
Editors' Foreword
The founding of the Seminar and the Society for Arabian Studies (Peter J. Parr)
In memoriam Andrzej Zaborski (1942-2014)
Trade beads of Furay?ah. Evidence of trade and connections of Qatar in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a small-finds perspective (Ann Andersson)
?Ubaid-related sites of the southern Gulf revisited: the Abu Dhabi Coastal Heritage Initiative (Mark Jonathan Beech, Kristian Strutt, Lucy Blue, Abdulla Khalfan al-Kaabi, Waleed Awad Omar, Ahmed Abdulla al-Haj El-Faki, Anjana Reddy Lingareddy & John Martin)
Investigating the eastern edge of the kingdom of Aksum: architecture and pottery from Wakarida (Anne Benoist, Julien Charbonnier & Iwona Gajda)
Seashell discs from the Early Iron Age graves of Daba (Dibba, Sultanate of Oman) (poster) (Francesco Paolo Caputo & Francesco Genchi)
The Crowded Desert: a multi-phase archaeological survey in the north-west of Qatar (Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Laura Morabito, Robert Carter, Richard Fletcher & Faisal Abdullah al-Naimi)
The social significance of ceramic change at the start of the Wadi Suq period. Rethinking ceramic continuity and change based on recent evidence from the tombs at Qarn al-?arf (Michel de Vreeze)
Iron Age metallurgy at Salut (Sultanate of Oman): a preliminary note (poster) (Michele Degli Esposti, Martina Renzi & Thilo Rehren)
The Asaila depression, an archaeological landscape in Qatar (Philipp Drechsler, Max Engel, Dominik Brill & Christoph Gerber)
Dennys Frenez, Michele Degli Esposti, Sophie Mery & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Bronze Age Salut (ST1) and the Indus Civilization: recent discoveries and new insights on regional interaction
The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach (Maria del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacon Diez)
Reassessing the impact of natural landscape factors on spatial strategies in the Petra hinterland in Nabataean-Roman times (Will M. Kennedy)
The Rustaq-Batinah Archaeological Survey (Derek Kennet, William M. Deadman & Nasser Said al-Jahwari)
Lithic assemblage from FNS-7 (Wadi al-?arimah): new evidence about the fifth-millennium BC hunter-gatherers of coastal Oman (poster) (Maria Pia Maiorano)
The Awam Temple cemetery in Marib (Ma?rib) revisited (Clara Mancarella)
Middle to Late Neolithic animal exploitation at UAQ2 (5500-4000 cal BC): an ?Ubaid-related coastal site at Umm al-Quwain Emirate, United Arab Emirates (Marjan Mashkour, Mark Jonathan Beech, Karyne Debue, Lisa Yeomans, Stephanie Brehard, Dalia Gasparini & Sophie Mery)
Humble beginnings? A closer look at social formation during Early Dilmun's formative phase (c.2200-2050 BC) (Eric Olijdam)
Al Ain Oases Mapping Project: QaGGarah Oasis, past and present (poster) (Timothy Power, Peter Sheehan, Shamsa Mohamed Al Dhaheri, Mariyam Abd Al Aziz Al Hammadi, Khuloud Ibrahim Al Hammadi & Afra Adnan Al Noaimi with Ayesha Muhsen Al Subaihi, Hamda Hasan Al Omar, Fatima Thani al-Romeithi, Muzna Khalifa Al Mansoori, Leqa Jawher Al Zaabi, Zainab Rubaiya Al Naemi, Mohamed Khalifa & Mohamed Al Dhaheri)
Early Iron Age metal circulation in the Arabian Peninsula: the oasis of Tayma? as part of a dynamic network (poster) (Martina Renzi, Andrea Intilia, Arnulf Hausleiter & Thilo Rehren)
Umm an-Nar pottery assemblages from Bat and al-Ziba and their functional contexts (Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Dopper)
Ancient South Arabian correspondence on wooden sticks: new radiocarbon data (Peter Stein, Tobias J. Jocham & Michael J. Marx)
?abrah, a satellite hamlet of Petra (Laurent Tholbecq, Thibaud Fournet, Nicolas Paridaens, Soline Delcros & Caroline Durand)
Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 24-26 July 2015
- Edited by Janet Starkey
- Edited by Orhan Elmaz
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