{"product_id":"9781905739400","title":"Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 41 2011 by Janet Starkey","description":"Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 41 2011, Papers from the forty-fourth meeting, held at the British Museum, London, 22-24 July 2010. Contents: 1) Some observations on women in Omani sources (Olga Andriyanova); 2) Archaeological landscape characterization in Qatar through satellite and aerial photographic analysis, 2009 to 2010 (Paul Breeze, Richard Cuttler \u0026amp; Paul Collins); 3) Fishing kit implements from KHB-1: net sinkers and lures (poster) (Fabio Cavulli \u0026amp; Simona Scaruffi); 4) The distribution of storage and diversion dams in the western mountains of South Arabia during the Himyarite period (Julien Charbonnier); 5) Assessing the value of palaeoenvironmental data and geomorphological processes for understanding Late Quaternary population dynamics in Qatar (Richard Cuttler, Emma Tetlow \u0026amp; Faisal al-Naimi); 6) Les fortifications de Khor Rori - `Sumhuram' (poster) (Christian Darles); 7) Places of contact, spheres of interaction. The Ubaid phenomenon in the central Gulf area as seen from a first season of reinvestigations at Dosariyah (Dawsariyyah), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Philipp Drechsler0; 8) khushub musannadah (Quran 63. 4) and Epigraphic South Arabian ms3nd (Orhan Elmaz); 9) Walled structures and settlement patterns in the south-western part of Dhofar, Oman (poster) (Roman Garba \u0026amp; Peter Farrington);10) The wall and talus at Baraqish, ancient Yathill (al-Jawf, Yemen): a Minaean stratigraphy (Francesco G. Fedele); 11) Through evangelizing eyes: American missionaries to Oman (Hilal al-Hajri); 12) Quantified analysis of long-term settlement trends in the northern Oman peninsula (Nasser Said al-Jahwari); 13) Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba and DMT - New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia (Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen \u0026amp; Mike Schnelle); 14) The Kadhima Project: investigating an Early Islamic settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay (poster) (Derek Kennet, Andrew Blair, Brian Ulrich \u0026amp; Sultan M. al-Duwish); 15) Typology of incense-burners of the Islamic period (Sterenn Le Maguer); 16) A geomorphological and hydrological underpinning for archaeological research in northern Qatar (Phillip G. Macumber); 17) Recent investigations at the prehistoric site RH-5 (Ras al-Hamra, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) (Lapo Gianni Marcucci, Francesco Genchi, ?milie Badel \u0026amp; Maurizio Tosi); 18) Geoarchaeological investigations at the site of Julfar (al-Nudud and al-Mataf), Ras al-Khaymah, UAE: preliminary results from the auger-hole survey (poster) (Mike Morley, Robert Carter \u0026amp; Christian Velde); 19) Conserving and contextualizing national cultural heritage: the 3-D digitization of the fort at al-Zubarah and petroglyphs at Jabal al-Jusasiyyah, Qatar (poster) (Helen Moulden, Richard Cuttler \u0026amp; Shane Kelleher); 20) Reassessing Wadi Debayan (Wadi al-Dabayan): an important Early Holocene Neolithic multi-occupational site in western Qatar (poster) (Faisal al-Naimi, Kathryn M. Price, Richard Cuttler \u0026amp; Hatem Arrock); 21) Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ras Ushayriq in northern Qatar and some observations on the occurrence of date presses (Andrew Petersen); 22) Relations between southern Arabia and the northern Horn of Africa during the last millennium BC (David W. Phillipson); 23) Bayt Bin Ati in the Qattarah oasis: a prehistoric industrial site and the formation of the oasis landscape of al-Ain, UAE (Timothy Power \u0026amp; Peter Sheehan); 24) The Sabaic inscription A-20-216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism (Alessia Prioletta); 25) Al-Suwaydirah (old al-Taraf) and its Early Islamic inscriptions (Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid); 26) Investigations in al-Zubarah hinterland at Murayr and al-Furayhah, north-west Qatar (poster) (Gareth Rees, Tobias Richter \u0026amp; Alan Walmsley); 27) Pearl fishers, townsfolk, Bedouin, and shaykhs: economic and social relations in Islamic al-Zubarah (Tobias Richter, Paul Wordsworth \u0026amp; Alan Walmsley); 28) Contemporary tribal versions of local history in Hadramawt (Mikhail Rodionov); 29) A view of the defence strategy of Muharraq, a tribal town in the Gulf (poster); 30) Solaiman Abd al-Rahman al-Theeb, New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sij in the region of al-Ula, Saudi Arabia (Abdulla Al-Sulaiti); 31) Al-Zubarah Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site - a master plan for its site management, preservation, and presentation (poster) (Ingolf Thuesen \u0026amp; Moritz Kinzel); 32) Oman and Bahrain in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians' Arabian periphery (Brian Ulrich); 33) From the port of Mocha to the eighteenth-century tomb of Imam al-Mahdi Mu?ammad in al-Mawahib: locating architectural icons and migratory craftsmen (Nancy Um); 34) Drummers of the Najd: musical practices from Wadi al-Dawasir, Saudi Arabia (Lisa Urkevich); 35) The Jewel of Muscat Project: reconstructing an early ninth-century CE Shipwreck (Tom Vosmer, Luca Belfioretti, Eric Staples \u0026amp; Alessandro Ghidoni); 36) Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (Janet C.E. 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