Seminar
for Arabian Studies
Seminar 2007
The
2007 Seminar for Arabian Studies will be held at the British
Museum in London from Thursday 19th
- Saturday 21st July 2007.
This is supported by the MBI
Al Jaber Foundation. Visit
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PROGRAMME
ABSTRACTS
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the abstracts for the Posters which
were presented.
GALLERY
of pictures taken at the 2007 Seminar Reception.
THE SEMINAR FOR
ARABIAN STUDIES
19-21 July 2007
PROGRAMME
All
lectures were held in the Clore
Centre within the British Museum,
Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
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The Programme was
as follows:
THURSDAY 19 JULY 2007
09:00-9:30
- Registration
09:30 - Welcome - Neil MACGREGOR (Director, British Museum, UK)
EASTERN ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Chair: Lloyd WEEKS (University of Nottingham, UK)
09:40 - New research on the Bronze
Age cemeteries at Bat, Oman - Manfred BOEHME (Ministry of Heritage and
Culture, Oman) & Gerd WEISGERBER (Deutsches Bergbaumuseum, Bochum,
Germany)
10:05 - Wadi Settlement at Northern
Oman: Towards a Model for Settlement Quantification - Nasser AL-JAHWARI
(University of Durham, UK)
10:30 - Human Behaviour and Ceramic
Correlates in SE Arabian Iron Age - Crystal FRITZ (Bryn Mawr College,
USA)
10:55-11:30 COFFEE
11:30 - Excavations at Muweilah (Sharjah,
UAE) - Peter MAGEE (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
11:55 - Two seasons of research
at al-Hamriya. Results of a joint Bryn Mawr College - University of Tubingen
research project - Peter MAGEE (Bryn Mawr College, USA), Marc HANDEL (Schloss
Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Don BARBER (Bryn Mawr College, USA),
Margaret UERPMANN, (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Hans-Peter
UERPMANN, (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Crystal FRITZ (Bryn
Mawr College, USA) & Sabah A. JASIM (Director of Antiquities, Sharjah)
12:20 - The Bahrain Burial Mound
Project - Steffen LAURSEN (Moesgard Museum, Denmark)
12:45-14:00 LUNCH
YEMENI ARCHAEOLOGY
Chair: Nadia DURRANI (Current World Archaeology, UK)
14:00 - Mapping Incipient Irrigation
in Wadi Sana, Hadramawt - Michael HARROWER (University of Toronto, Canada)
14:25 - Ancient Irrigation in Wadi
Jirdan, Yemen - Ueli BRUNNER (Department of Geography, University of Zurich,
Switzerland)
14:50 - Latest results, new dating
and recent evidence for the fortifications of Shabwa (Hadhramawt) - Christian
DARLES (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Toulouse, France)
15:15-15:45 TEA
15:45 - From Prehistoric Landscapes
to Urban Sprawl: the Masna'at Maryah region of highland Yemen - Krista
LEWIS (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA) & Lamya KHALIDI
(Centre Francais d¡¦Archeologie et de Sciences Sociales de
Sanaa, Yemen)
16:10 - The complexity of 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 - Zaydoon ZAID (AFSM, USA) & Mohammed MARAQTEN (AFSM, USA)
16:35 - Women's inscriptions recently
discovered by the AFSM at the Awam Temple/ Mahram Bilqis in Marib, Yemen
- Mohammed MARAQTEN (Orient-Institute, Lebanon)
17:00 - Shalom (Salim) al-Shabazi. (11th
Century) as a Yemeni Poet - Yosef TOBI (University of Haifa, Israel)
18:30 - Green Arabia: Climate and
Archaeology from Prehistory to the Incense Trade - Tony WILKINSON (University
of Durham, UK). This lecture forms part of the British Museum's Lecture
Series. Free to registered attendees of the Seminar.
FRIDAY 20 JULY 2007
DEFINING THE PALAEOLITHIC OF ARABIA
Special session organized by Jeffrey I. ROSE (Oxford Brookes University,
UK) & Michael PETRAGLIA (Cambridge University, UK)
09:30 - Demographic confluence and
radiation in southern Arabia - Adrian PARKER and Jeffrey I. ROSE (both
Oxford Brookes University, UK)
09:50 - Genetics and the southern
route of dispersal - Tomas KIVISILD (Cambridge University, UK)
10:10 - Arabia and Out of Africa
Connections - Michael PETRAGLIA (Cambridge University, UK)
10:25
- An early Lower Palaeolithic site
from central Saudi Arabia - Abdullah ALSHAREKH (King Saud University,
Saudi Arabia)
10:40 - Questions and Discussion - Michael PETRAGLIA (Cambridge University,
UK)
10:55-11.25 COFFEE
11:25 - Upper Pleistocene Stone-tools
from Sharjah, UAE. Initial Investigations: Interim Report - Julie E. SCOTT-JACKSON
(Pitt Rivers Museum, UK), Sarah MILLIKEN (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK), William
B. SCOTT-JACKSON (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK) & Jasim A SABAH (Department
of Culture & Information, UAE)
11:55
- The Stone Age Sequence of Jebel
Faya in the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE) - Hans-Peter UERPMANN (Schloss Hohentubingen,
Tubingen, Germany), Margarethe UERPMANN (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen,
Germany), Johannes KUTTERER (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany),
Marc HANDEL (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Jasim A SABAH
(Department of Culture & Information, UAE) & Anthony MARKS (Southern
Methodist University, USA)
12:10 - A Middle Palaeolithic in
South Arabia? Levallois and Wa'shah methods from Yemen Remy CRASSARD (CEFAS,
Yemen)
12:25 - Crossing the Rift: Technology
of the Late, Middle and Upper Pleistocene in East Africa - Anthony E.
MARKS (Southern Methodist University, USA)
12:45 - Questions and Discussion - Jeffrey I. ROSE (Oxford Brookes University,
UK)
12.55-14:00 LUNCH
THE ARABIAN NEOLITHIC
Chair: Robert CARTER (UK)
14:00 - The Arabian Neolithic
Chronology a point of view from Ja'alan Oman - Vincent CHARPENTIER (CNRS,
France)
14:25 - Wadi at-Tayyilah 3, a Neolithic
settlement on the eastern Yemen Plateau and its archaeofaunal information
- Francesco FEDELE (University of Naples, Italy)
14:50 - A Neolithic settlement at Akab
(Umm al-Quwayn, United Arab Emirates) - Sophie MERY (CNRS, France) &
Vincent CHARPENTIER (CNRS, France)
15:15-15:45 TEA
Please note that from 15.45 until 17.30 there will be a Palaeolithic discussion
session in a Room next to the BP lecture theatre.
NORTH WESTERN ARABIA
Chair: Michael MACDONALD (Oxford University, UK)
15:45 - Architecture and stratigraphy
in NW-Arabian oasis settlements (2nd millennium BC ¡V 1st millennium
AD) - Ricardo EICHMANN (Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Germany)
16:10
- Painted pottery groups in NW
Arabia of the late 2nd/early 1st millennia BC - Arnulf HAUSLEITER (Deutsches
Archaologisches Institut, Germany)
16:35 - Antiquities of Jarash: Asir
region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Abdul Kareem Al-Ghamdi (King Saud University,
Saudi Arabia)
17:00 - Sadd al-Khanaq an Early Umayyad
Dam Near Medina: Saudi Arabia - Saad AL-RASHID (Saudi Arabia)
18:15 - Reception: Clore Centre, The British Museum
SATURDAY 21 JULY 2007
ANCIENT SEAFARING
Chair: Robert CARTER (UK)
09:30 - Khutba
& Khil'a: Networks of mercantile recognition and clientship between
Calicut, Aden and Herat
- Elizabeth LAMBOURN (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
09:55
- Indian ships at Moscha and the ancient
Indo-Arabian trading circuit - Eivind Heldaas SELAND (University of Bergen,
Norway)
EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY & SETTLEMENT
Chairs: Derek KENNET (University of Durham, UK) and Venetia PORTER
(The British Museum, UK)
10:20 - The Azd Migrations Reconsidered:
Accounts of Malik b. Fahm and 'Amr Muzayqiya in their Historiographic
Context - Brian ULRICH (University of Wisconsin, USA)
10:45-11:15 COFFEE
11:15 - Muwatta' as a source for the
economic and social history of Medina - Khalifa Mohamed OMER (University
of Khartoum, Sudan)
11:40 - A history of the Ziyadids through
their coinage (AD 203-442/818-1050) - Audrey PELI (University of Paris
1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France)
12:05 - The Pottery of the Red
Sea Tihami Coastal Ports in Saudi Arabia: Preliminary Notes - Mohammed
AL-THENAYIAN (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
12:30 - Rediscovery of a Fort:
the Qasr al-Hosn of Abu Dhabi - Harald VELDHUIJZEN (Institute of Archaeology,
UCL, UK & Prince Research Consultants)
12:55-14:00
LUNCH
14:00 - Zekrit site: settlement patterns
during the XIXth century in Qatar. Tribes and territory - Alexandrine
GUERIN (Maison de l'Orient et de la mediterranee, France)
14:25 - Towards a comprehensive
Catalogue of Islamic Religious Architecture of Yemen - Giovanna Ventrone
VASSALLO (Italian Archaeological Mission to Yemen)
14:50 - Wadi Daw'an Project - Salma
Samar DAMLUJI & Tracy THOMPSON
15:15-15:45 TEA
15:45 - Gerrhaeans in Marib - A new
fragment to a dated text - Norbert Nebes (Universitat Jena, Germany)
RECENT HISTORY AND LINGUISTICS
Chair: Janet WATSON (University of Salford, UK)
16:10 - British Policy in Arabia until
the end of the First World War: Internal Disputes - Abd Rauh YACCOB (Islam
University of Sultan Sharif Ali, Brunei)
16:35 - Relative clauses in Rijal Alma'
dialect (South-west Saudi Arabia) - Yahya ASIRI (University of Salford,
UK)
17:00 - The djinn and afarit in
the South Arabian society of the last century - Mikhail RODIONOV (Peter-the-Great
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russia)
POSTERS
Don't forget to also view the abstracts for the Posters which have been already offered.
MENCAWAR: Mediterranean Network for Cataloguing and Web Fruition of Ancient Artworks and Inscriptions. - Alessandra AVANZINI (Università degli studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
Ghleelah, Past, Present and Future Architectural and Environmental analysis and re-design of Ghleelah community, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. - Afra S. BIN SULAIMAN, Alia A. MALIK, Hind D. BIN DULMOOK, Mona F. AL GURG and Nouf A. AL DHMANI (all Zayed University, Dubai, UAE)
Stone artifacts from KHB-1, a Holocene fisher-gatherer settlement in the Ja’lân region (Sultanate of Oman). - Fabio CAVULLLI (University of Trento, Italy) and Simona SCARUFFI (University of Bologna, Italy)
Human-Animal Relationships in Pre-Islamic Southeast Arabia: A View from the Camelid and Equid Burials. - An DE WAELE and Aurelie DAEMS (both Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East, Ghent University, Belgium)
The Bahrain Burial Mound Project. - Stefffen Terp LAURSEN and Kasper Lambert JOHANSEN (both Department of Oriental Archaeology, Moesgård Museum, Denmark)
The MBI al Jaber Foundation - Carolyn PERRY (MBI al Jaber Foundation, London, UK)
The
chronology and sedimentology of the Neolithic Graveyard and shell midden
complex, Umm al-Qawain (UAQ2), United Arab Emirates. - Helen WALKINGTON
and Adrian G. PARKER (both Department
of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK)
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