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:
Abdol Rauh Yaccob, British policy on Arabia before the First World War:
an internal argument;
Adrian G. Parker &. Jeffrey I. Rose, Climate change and human origins
in southern Arabia;
Alexandrine Guerin & Faysal 'Abdallah al-Na'imi, Nineteenth century
settlement patterns at Zekrit, Qatar: pottery, tribes and territory;
Anthony E. Marks, Into Arabia, perhaps, but if so, from where?;
Audrey Peli, A history of the Ziyadids through their coinage (203-442/818-1050);
Aurelie Daems & An De Waele, Some reflections on human-animal burials
from pre-Islamic south-east Arabia (poster);
Brian Ulrich, The Azd migrations reconsidered: narratives of 'Amr Muzayqiya
and Malik b. Fahm in historiographic context;
Christian Darles, Derniers resultats, nouvelles datations et nouvelles
donnees sur les fortifications de Shabwa (Hadramawt);
Eivind Heldaas Seland, The Indian ships at Moscha and the Indo-Arabian
trading circuit;
Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi, Stone vessels from KHB-1, Ja'lan
region, Sultanate of Oman (poster);
Francesco G. Fedele, Wadi at-Tayyilah 3, a Neolithic and Pre-Neolithic
occupation on the eastern Yemen Plateau, and its archaeofaunal information;
Ghanim Wahida, Walid Yasin al-Tikriti & Mark Beech, Barakah: a Middle
Palaeolithic site in Abu Dhabi Emirate;
Jeffrey I. Rose & Geoff N. Bailey, Defining the Palaeolithic of Arabia?
Notes on the Roundtable Discussion;
Jeffrey I. Rose, Introduction: special session to define the Palaeolithic
of Arabia;
Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson, Jeffrey Rose & Sabah Jasim,
Investigating Upper Pleistocene stone tools from Sharjah, UAE: Interim
report;
Krista Lewis & Lamya Khalidi, From prehistoric landscapes to urban
sprawl: the Masn'at at Maryah region of highland Yemen;
Michael J. Harrower, Mapping and dating incipient irrigation in Wadi Sana,
Hadramawt (Yemen);
Mikhail Rodionov, The jinn in Hadramawt society in the last century;
Mohammed A.R. al-Thenayian, The Red Sea Tihami coastal ports in Saudi
Arabia;
Mohammed Maraqten, Women's inscriptions recently discovered by the AFSM
at the Awam temple/Mahram Bilqis in Marib, Yemen;
Nasser Said al-Jahwari & Derek Kennet, A field methodology for the
quantification of ancient settlement in an Arabian context;
Remy Crassard, The Wa'shah method: an original laminar debitage from Hadramawt,
Yemen;
Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid, Sadd al-Khanaq: an early Umayyad dam near
Medina, Saudi Arabia;
Ueli Brunner, Ancient irrigation in Wadi Jirdan;
Vincent Charpentier & Sophie Mery, A Neolithic settlement near the
Strait of Hormuz: Akab Island, United Arab Emirates;
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);
Yahya Asiri, Relative clauses in the dialect of Rijal Alma' (south-west
Saudi Arabia);
Yosef Tobi, Shalom (Salim) al-Sabazi's (seventeenth-century) poem of the
debate between coffee and qat;
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
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