Author: Paul Yule
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515071536
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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A report on an Early Iron Age metal hoard found in 1979 at Selme in Oman. Comprising more than 500 pieces, the hoard included a number of daggers, bangles and bowls, as well as other miniature vessels, some of which were unique to this hoard.
Author: Nasser S. Al-Jahwari
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270837
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Numerous metallic artefacts, deposited in a hoard in ancient times, came to light by chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Khawd, Sultanate of Oman. Mostly fashioned from copper, these objects compare well with numerous documented artefact classes from south-eastern Arabia assigned to the Early Iron Age (1200–300 BCE).
Author: Guillaume Gernez
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789691818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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This is the first monograph to present research at the Adam oasis, located at the margins of the Rub Al-Khali desert, Oman. Major periods are described, with evidence of Palaeolithic occupation, Neolithic settlements, Early and Middle Bronze Age necropolises, and Iron Age ritual sites. An ethnographic study of traditional water sharing is included.
Author: Derek Kennet
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789257964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes. The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700–2000 BC) came to an end and gave way to the Middle Bronze Age, Wadi Suq period (2000–1600 BC). Settlements changed, and possibly began to decline in size and number, the economy changed for many and the important trade in copper ore seems to have declined. In addition, there was a marked change in funerary practices as new types of tombs appeared – both collective and individual burials. All of this took place within the context of a climatic shift that led to a decline in rainfall across many parts of the region. Much of the countryside of south-eastern Iran was abandoned and the urban period of the Indus Valley was weakening. In the midst of this turmoil, the limited agricultural plains of northern Ras al-Khaimah appear to have developed into an island where there was greater continuity than elsewhere. This book reports on the excavation of a number of monumental collective tombs that were built there and used through the early part of the 2nd millennium. The way that they were constructed and used as well as the burial goods that they contain throw light on the population of this area, and give some indication of how and why it was that life continued in this small pocket in a way that was different to surrounding regions.
Author: Lloyd Weeks
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004495444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume contists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium BC.
Author: Daniel T. Potts
Publisher: Trident Press Ltd
ISBN: 190072488X
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Author: Karel Guy Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Michael C. A. Macdonald
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
ISBN: 9780953992379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2004.
Author: Bo Madsen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN: 8793423241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Early Bronze Age Tombs of Jebel Hafit presents fifty burial mounds excavated by Moesgaard Museum in 1961-1971 in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the Arabian Gulf. These excavations were the first archaeological investigations at all in this part of the world, and they throw light on the beginning of the Bronze Age on the Oman Peninsula. The graves represent a fundamental transformation of the relationship between humans and the environment in the region, preceding the emergence of oasis agriculture. The graves contain the first objects of copper in the region and show that the exploitation of copper from the Oman mountains had begun. The tombs of Jebel Hafit are inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The publication is the result of a cooperation between the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority and Moesgaard Museum.
Author: Claudio Giardino
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789691796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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This volume describes the geography and environments of Oman, its rich copper ore deposits and the ancient mining and smelting techniques, and it also includes an overview of the physical properties of the different metals exploited in antiquity and of the analytical techniques used in archaeometallurgy.
