Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 37 (2007)
Papers from the fortieth
meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, 27-29 July
2006
ISSN 0308-8421
ISBN 978-1-905739-10-3
Price £47.00.
347 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, maps, drawings
and photographs.
Steering Committee of the Seminar and Editorial Committee of the Proceedings:
Dr D. Kennet (Chairman), Prof. K. Al-Muaikel, Prof. A. Avanzini, Dr M.
Beech, Dr R. Carter, Dr N. Durrani, Dr R. Eichmann, Prof. C. Holes, Dr
R.G. Hoyland, M.C.A. Macdonald, Dr A. MacMahon (Secretary), Dr V. Porter,
Prof D. Potts, Prof. C. Robin, Dr St. J. Simpson (Joint Editor-in-Chief),
A. Thompson (Treasurer), Prof. J. Watson, Dr. L. Weeks (Joint Editor-in-Chief)
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CONTENTS:
Transliteration (page
vii)
Editors' Foreword (page ix)
Geoff Bailey, Abdullah AlSharekh, Nic Flemming, Kurt Lambeck, Garry Momber,
Anthony Sinclair
& Claudio Vita-Finzi, Coastal prehistory in the southern Red Sea Basin,
underwater archaeology,
and the Farasan Islands (pages 1-16)
A. Benoist, O. Lavigne,
M. Mouton & J. Schiettecatte, Chronologie et évolution de l'architecture
à
Makaynun: la formation d'un centre urbain à l'époque sudarabique
dans le Hadramawt (pages 17-35)
Stephen A. Buckley, Joann
Fletcher, Khalid Al-Thour, Mohammed Basalama & Don R. Brothwell,
A preliminary study on the materials employed in ancient Yemeni mummification
and burial practices (summary) (pages 37-41)
Rémy Crassard
& Holger Hitgen, From Safer to Balhaf - rescue excavations along the
Yemen LNG pipeline route (pages 43-59)
Richard Cuttler, Mark
Beech, Heiko Kallweit, Anja Zander & Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti, 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 (pages 61-78)
Parsival Delrue, Flip
the coin. Preliminary results of compositional EDX analyses on south-east
Arabian coins from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (pages 79-92)
Philipp Drechsler, Spreading
the Neolithic over the Arabian Peninsula (pages 93-109)
Ingrid Hehmeyer, Water
and waste in mediaeval Zabid, Yemen (pages 111-123)
Christine Kepinski, Tribal
links between the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle Euphrates at the beginning
of the second millennium BC (pages 125-134)
Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper,
Rare photographs from the 1930s and 1940s by Yihye Haybi, a Yemenite Jew
from Sana'a: historical reality and ethnographic deductions (pages 135-155)
Harriet Nash, Stargazing
in traditional water management: a case study in northern Oman (pages
157-170)
Lynne S. Newton, Al Qisha:
archaeological investigations at an Islamic period Yemeni village (pages
171-186)
Audrey Peli & Florian
Téreygeol, Al-Radrad (al-Jabali): a Yemeni silver mine, first results
of the French mission (2006) (pages 187-200)
Carl Phillips & St
J. Simpson, A biographical sketch of Britain's first Sabaeologist - Colonel
W.F. Prideaux, CSI (pages 201-218)
Jeffrey Rose, The Arabian
Corridor Migration Model: archaeological evidence for hominin dispersals
into Oman during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene (pages 219-237)
Axelle Rougeulle, Ceramic
production in mediaeval Yemen: the Yadgat kiln site (pages 239-252)
Fiorella Scagliarini,
The word slm/snm and some words for "statue, idol" in Arabian
and other Semitic languages (pages 253-262)
Juergen Schreiber, "Transformation
processes in oasis settlements in Oman" 2005 archaeological survey
at the oasis of Nizwa: a preliminary report (pages 263-275)
Julie Scott-Jackson,
William Scott-Jackson & Sabah Jasim, Middle Palaeolithic - or what?
New sites in Sharjah, UAE (pages 277-279)
T. Steimer-Herbet, J-F.
Saliège, T. Sagory, O. Lavigne & A. as-Saqqaf, in collaboration
with M. Mashkour & H. Guy, Rites and funerary practices at Rawk during
the fourth millennium BC (Wadi 'Idim, Yemen) (pages 281-294)
Brian Ulrich, The sources
on the Fitna of Mas'ud b. 'Amr al-Azdi and their uses for Basran tribal
history (pages 295-296)
An De Waele, The beads
of ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (pages 297-308)
Juris Zarins, Aspects
of recent archaeological work at al-Balid (Zafar), Sultanate of Oman (pages
309-324)
Ahmad b. 'Umar al-Zayla'i,
Towards a new theory: the state of Bani Mahdi, the fourth imamate in Yemen
(pages 325-334)
Papers read at the 2006
Seminar (pages 335-337)
Posters presented at the 2006 Seminar (page 337)
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