Seminar for Arabian Studies

2003 Seminar Programme

THURSDAY 17th JULY

9.00 Welcome: Derek Kennet

Prehistory
Chair: Derek Kennet

9.10 Remy Crassard and Pierre Bodu: Prehistory in Oriental Hadramawt (Yemen): new perspectives

9.35 Vincent Charpentier: Neolithic triedal arrowheads and the Arabian bifacial tradition

10.00 Abdullah Alsharekh: Thumamah re-considered: the results of a new research campaign

10.25 COFFEE

Archaeology of the Arabian Gulf

10.55 Caroline R. Cartwright: Exploitation of the coastal environment of Ra's al-Hadd in the 3rd millennium BC

11.20 Mark Beech and Peter Hellyer: New archaeological investigations at Abu Dhabi airport, United Arab Emirates

11.45 Heiko Kallweit: Lithics from the Emirates: new finds from the Abu Dhabi airport site and the Peter Rothfels collection

12.10 Ralph Pedersen: Traditional Arabian watercraft and the ark of the Gilgamesh Epic: interpretations and realisations

12.35 Robert A. Carter: Archaeological evidence for pearling in the Arabian Gulf

13.00 LUNCH

Chair: Peter Magee

14.00 Christian Velde: Wadi Sur – a large fortification in Ras al-Khaimah

14.25 Eric Olijdam: Middle Dilmun sealings from Qal'at al-Bahrain: an alternative view on Kassite dynamics in the Arabian Gulf

14.50 William Lancaster and Martin Bridge: tree-core sampling in Ras Al-Khaimah

15.15 Jeffery Orchard: The GPS mapping of the Hajar Project's 3rd millennium BC oasis town site at Bisya in the Wadi Behla, northern Oman: the first two seasons

15.40 TEA

Chair: William Glanzman

16.10 Anne Benoist: The Iron Age in Bithnah: two campaigns of excavation

16.35 Peter Magee: The 2002-03 research at Muweilah, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

17.00 Jutta Haeser and Juergen Schreiber: Archaeological survey at Tiwi and its hinterland (Central Oman)

17.25 Yaqoub Albusaidi: Archaeological site management in the Sultanate of Oman. Bahla fort as a case study

17.50 Tom Vosmer: Cosmopoloitan Qalhat - exploration of an Indian Ocean port [ abstract not provided ]

FRIDAY 18th JULY

Ancient South Arabia
Chair: St John Simpson

9.00 Barbara Davidde and Roberto Petriaggi: New data on the commercial trade of the harbour of Kanè through the typological and petrological study of the pottery

9.25 William Facey, Carl Phillips and François Villeneuve: A Latin inscription from South Arabia

9.50 Roberta Tomber: Rome and South Arabia: new artefactual evidence from the Red Sea

10.15 H. Stewart Edgell: The myth of the lost city of the Arabian sands

10.45 COFFEE

11.10 William Glanzman: Beyond their borders: a common potting tradition and ceramic horizon within South Arabia during the 1st millennium BC

11.35 Alexandra Porter: The production and distribution of amphorae in South Arabia and East Africa in the first millennium BC

12.00 Burkhard Vogt: Recent research of the German Institute of Archaeology at the Great Dam of Marib, Yemen

12.25 Norbert Nebes: A new Abreha inscription from the Great Dam of Marib

12.50 LUNCH

Chair: Stefan Weninger

13.50 Mohammed Maraqten: The processional road between the Old City of Marib and the Awam Temple in the light of a recently discovered inscription from Mahram Bilqis

14.15 Abdu Ghaleb: The results of the 2002 season and sand removal at the Mahram Bilqis, Marib by the American Foundation for the Study of Man

14.40 Peter Stein: A Sabaic proverb

15.05 Joseph Daniels: Who were the QS/1D and what did they do? An analysis of social titles within ESA graffiti from the Central Highlands of Yemen

15.30 TEA

North Arabia and Arabic
Chair: Michael Macdonald

16.00 Saad Twaissi: Sedentarization among ancient Arabian nomads: Nabataean

16.25 Salah Said and Muntasir Al-Hamad: The Nabataean burial inscriptions from Umm el-Jimal

16.50 Yosef Tobi: The orthography of the Pre-Sa'dianic Judeo-Arabic compared with the orthography of the inscriptions of pre-Islamic Arabia

18.00 RECEPTION

SATURDAY 19th JULY

Ethnoarchaeology
Chair: Shelagh Weir

9.00 Ali Tigani Elmahi: Traditional goat management in Oman: an indirect reference to prehistoric practices

9.25 Birgit Mershen: Pots and tombs in Ibra/Oman: investigations into the ceramic record of Islamic cemeteries and the related burial customs and funerary rituals

9.50 Hanne Schoenig: Reflections on the use of animal drugs in Yemen

10.15 Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper: An exceptional Yemenite necklace from the beginning of the 20th century as an example of introducing artistic novelty in a traditional craft

10.40 COFFEE

Islamic and Post-Medieval
Chair: Robert Hoyland

11.10 Anne Regourd: Trade on the Red Sea during the Mamluk period: was Quseir an important trading centre? [ abstract not provided ]

11.35 Valeria Piacentini: The mercantile empire of the Tibis: economic predominance, political power, military subordination

12.00 Mashary Al-Naim: Dynamism of a traditional Arab town: the case of Hofuf, Saudi Arabia

12.25 Nada Al-Nafea': Privacy versus hospitality; impact of women on formation of the Arab house in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

12.50 LUNCH

Chair: Venetia Porter

13.50 Noha Sadek and Anne Regourd: Nouvelles données sur la topographie de Zabîd (Yémen) au 18e siècle [ abstract not provided ]

14.15 Nancy Um: Eighteenth-century religious patronage in Sanaa: Qasimi building in the new capital

14.40 Mikhail Rodionov: Mashhad `Ali revisited: recent data from Hadramawt

15.05 TEA

15.35 Xavier Ballestin-Navarro: 'Asabiyya and dawla. Yemen as a case study of Ibn Khaldun's approach to the history and society of the Islamic world

16.00 Samia Naïm: Le concept d'inaliénabilité dans le dialecte arabe de Sanaa

16.25 Janet Watson: The linguistic geology of San'ani Arabic

16.50 Closing remarks and discussion.

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