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Proceedings
of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 38 (2008)
Papers from the forty-first
meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, 19-21 July
2007
Edited by Lloyd Weeks and St John Simpson
344 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, maps, drawings
and photographs
ISSN 0308-8421
ISBN 978-1-905739-10-3
Published July 2008, £49.00
Steering Committee of the Seminar and Editorial Committee of the Proceedings:
Dr R. Carter (Chairman), Prof. A. Avanzini, Dr M. Beech, Dr. N. Durrani,
Dr R. Eichmann, Prof. C. Holes, Dr R.G. Hoyland, Dr. D. Kennet, M.C.A.
Macdonald, Dr A. MacMahon (Secretary), Prof. K. Al-Muaikel, 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)
(*) Simpson & Weeks were joint editor-in-chief for
Volume 38. The new Editor-in-Chief for Volume 39 (2008) onwards is now
Janet Starkey.
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CONTENTS:
Transliteration (page vi)
Editors' Foreword (page viii)
Part One: Special Session
on Palaeolithic Arabia
Jeffrey I. Rose, Introduction:
special session to define the Palaeolithic of Arabia (pages 1-2)
Remy Crassard, The Wa'shah method: an original laminar debitage from Hadramawt,
Yemen (pages 3-14)
Anthony E. Marks, Into Arabia, perhaps, but if so, from where? (pages
15-24)
Adrian G. Parker &. Jeffrey I. Rose, Climate change and human origins
in southern Arabia (pages 25-42)
Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson, Jeffrey Rose & Sabah Jasim,
Investigating Upper Pleistocene stone tools from Sharjah, UAE: Interim
report (pages 43-54)
Ghanim Wahida, Walid Yasin al-Tikriti & Mark Beech, Barakah: a Middle
Palaeolithic site in Abu Dhabi Emirate (pages 55-64)
Jeffrey I. Rose & Geoff N. Bailey, Defining the Palaeolithic of Arabia?
Notes on the Roundtable Discussion (pages 65-70)
Part Two: Additional New Research on Arabia
Yahya Asiri, Relative clauses in the dialect of Rijal Alma' (south-west
Saudi Arabia) (pages 71-74)
Ueli Brunner, Ancient irrigation in Wadi Jirdan (pages 75-88)
Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi, Stone vessels from KHB-1, Ja'lan
region, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (pages 89-92)
Vincent Charpentier, Hunter-gatherers of the "empty quarter of the
early Holocene" to the last Neolithic societies: chronology of the
late prehistory of south-eastern Arabia (8000-3100 BC) (pages 93-116)
Vincent Charpentier & Sophie Mery, A Neolithic settlement near the
Strait of Hormuz: Akab Island, United Arab Emirates (pages 117-136)
Aurelie Daems & An De Waele, Some reflections on human-animal burials
from pre-Islamic south-east Arabia (poster) (pages 137-140)
Christian Darles, Derniers resultats, nouvelles datations et nouvelles
donnees sur les fortifications de Shabwa (Hadramawt) (pages 141-152)
Francesco G. Fedele, Wadi at-Tayyilah 3, a Neolithic and Pre-Neolithic
occupation on the eastern Yemen Plateau, and its archaeofaunal information
(pages 153-172)
Alexandrine Guerin & Faysal 'Abdallah al-Na'imi, Nineteenth century
settlement patterns at Zekrit, Qatar: pottery, tribes and territory (pages
173-186)
Michael J. Harrower, Mapping and dating incipient irrigation in Wadi Sana,
Hadramawt (Yemen) (pages 187-202)
Nasser Said al-Jahwari & Derek Kennet, A field methodology for the
quantification of ancient settlement in an Arabian context (pages 203-214)
Krista Lewis & Lamya Khalidi, From prehistoric landscapes to urban
sprawl: the Masn'at at Maryah region of highland Yemen (pages 215-230)
Mohammed Maraqten, Women's inscriptions recently discovered by the AFSM
at the Awam temple/Mahram Bilqis in Marib, Yemen (pages 231-250)
Audrey Peli, A history of the Ziyadids through their coinage (203-442/818-1050)
(pages 251-264)
Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid, Sadd al-Khanaq: an early Umayyad dam near
Medina, Saudi Arabia (pages 265-276)
Mikhail Rodionov, The jinn
in Hadramawt society in the last century (pages 277-282)
Eivind Heldaas Seland, The Indian ships at Moscha and the Indo-Arabian
trading circuit (pages 283-288)
Mohammed A.R. al-Thenayian, The Red Sea Tihami coastal ports in Saudi
Arabia (pages 289-300)
Yosef Tobi, Shalom (Salim)
al-Sabazi's (seventeenth-century) poem of the debate between coffee and
qat (pages 301-310)
Brian Ulrich, The Azd migrations reconsidered: narratives of 'Amr Muzayqiya
and Malik b. Fahm in historiographic context (pages 311-318)
Abdol Rauh Yaccob, British policy on Arabia before the First World War:
an internal argument (pages 319-326)
Zaydoon Zaid & Mohammed Maraqten, The Peristyle Hall: remarks on the
history of construction based on recent archaeological and epigraphic
evidence of the AFSM expedition to the Awam temple in Marib, Yemen (pages
327-340)
Papers read at the 2007 Seminar (pages 341-343)
Posters presented at the 2007 Seminar (page 344)
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Seminar for Arabian Studies 2008.
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