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Author :Christopher P. Thornton Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 13 :1934536075 Total Pages :361 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (345 download)
Book Synopsis The Bronze Age Towers at Bat, Sultanate of Oman by : Christopher P. Thornton
Download or read book The Bronze Age Towers at Bat, Sultanate of Oman written by Christopher P. Thornton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third millennium B.C.E., the Oman Peninsula was the site of an important kingdom known in Akkadian texts as "Magan," which traded extensively with the Indus Civilization, southern Iran, the Persian Gulf states, and southern Mesopotamia. Excavations have been carried out in this region since the 1970s, although the majority of studies have focused on mortuary monuments at the expense of settlement archaeology. While domestic structures of the Bronze Age have been found and are the focus of current research at Bat, most settlements dating from the third millennium B.C.E. in Oman and the U.A.E. are defined by the presence of large, circular monuments made of mudbrick or stone that are traditionally called "towers." Whether these so-called towers are defensive, agricultural, political, or ritual structures has long been debated, but very few comprehensive studies of these monuments have been attempted. Between 2007 and 2012, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology conducted excavations at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman under the direction of the late Gregory L. Possehl. The focus of these years was on the monumental stone towers of the third millennium B.C.E., looking at the when, how, and why of their construction through large-scale excavation, GIS-aided survey, and the application of radiocarbon dates. This has been the most comprehensive study of nonmortuary Bronze Age monuments ever conducted on the Oman Peninsula, and the results provide new insight into the formation and function of these impressive structures that surely formed the social and political nexus of Magan's kingdom.
Book Synopsis No Place Like Home: Ancient Near Eastern Houses and Households by : Laura Battini
Download or read book No Place Like Home: Ancient Near Eastern Houses and Households written by Laura Battini and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book had its genesis in a series of 6 popular and well-attended ASOR conference sessions on Household Archaeology in the Ancient Near East. The 18 chapters are organized in three thematic sections: Architecture as Archive of Social Space; The Active Household; and Ritual Space at Home.
Book Synopsis The 2018 Archaeological Survey at Tawi Said, Sultanate of Oman by : Stephanie Döpper
Download or read book The 2018 Archaeological Survey at Tawi Said, Sultanate of Oman written by Stephanie Döpper and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2018 archaeological survey at Tawi Said, located on the edge of the Sharqiyah desert in the Sultanate of Oman, yielded close to 8,600 artifacts, the majority being pottery sherds. Two significant phases are attested by the survey's finds: the Wadi Suq period (2000-1600 BCE) and the Late Islamic period (1650-1970 CE).
Book Synopsis Landscapes of Death: Early Bronze Age Tombs and Mortuary Rituals on the Oman Peninsula by : Kimberly D. Williams
Download or read book Landscapes of Death: Early Bronze Age Tombs and Mortuary Rituals on the Oman Peninsula written by Kimberly D. Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the evidence for Early Bronze Age mortuary rituals on the Oman Peninsula, describing the research conducted, synthesizing the resulting data, and presenting a complete view of the state of knowledge on the topic.
Book Synopsis Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia by : Kimberly D. Williams
Download or read book Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia written by Kimberly D. Williams and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together expert s in archaeology and bioarchaeology to examine continuity and change in ancient Arabian mortuary practices. While most previous investigations have been limited geographically to Egypt and the Levant, this volume focuses on the lesser-studied southeastern Arabian Peninsula, showing what death and burial can reveal about the lifestyles of the region’s prehistoric communities. In case studies from Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain, contributors explore the transition from the earliest to the most complex mortuary monuments in the Bronze Age and beyond. They consider sociopolitical and environmental factors that may have influenced mortuary practices and what skeletal biogeochemistry can reveal about changing mobility and access to food resources. They also discuss sites that illustrate more nuanced shifts in burial traditions that took place during the evolution of the Hafit to the Umm an-Nar cultures, a period of transformation often neglected because the semi-nomadic lifestyle of this intermediary culture left behind a limited archaeological record. Burial patterns reveal a shift from cairns to communal tombs that offers new insight into the relationship between the mortuary landscape and the living, while the presence of animal bones interred with human remains embodies the significance of herd management as symbols of both territoriality and reproduction. By using skeletal remains as a rich source of scientific data that complements studies of burial context, this volume represents an important turning point for mortuary research in the region. Its novel interdisciplinary and international perspective provides a synthesis of new ideas and interpretations that will guide future archaeological research in Arabia and beyond. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen Contributors: Eugenio Bortolini | Charlotte Marie Cable | Guillaume Gernez | Jessica Giraud | Richard Thorburn Howard Cuttler | Aurea Izquierdo Zamora | Olivia Munoz | Jill A. Weber | Benjamin W. Porter | Alexis Boutin | Debra L. Martin | Kathryn M. Baustian | Anna J. Osterholz | Peter Magee
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019 by : Daniel Eddisford
Download or read book Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019 written by Daniel Eddisford and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanities studies on the Arabian Peninsular including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman by : Serge Cleuziou
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman written by Serge Cleuziou and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original eleven chapters are expanded and enhanced in this new edition by a number of new ‘windows’, written by a new generation of scholars, in order to include more recent research and interpretations.
Book Synopsis Magan – The Land of Copper by : Claudio Giardino
Download or read book Magan – The Land of Copper written by Claudio Giardino and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Early Iron Age Metal Hoard from the Al Khawd Area (Sultan Qaboos University), Sultanate of Oman by : Nasser S. Al-Jahwari
Download or read book The Early Iron Age Metal Hoard from the Al Khawd Area (Sultan Qaboos University), Sultanate of Oman written by Nasser S. Al-Jahwari and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Book Synopsis The Reuse of Tombs in Eastern Arabia by : Stephanie Döpper
Download or read book The Reuse of Tombs in Eastern Arabia written by Stephanie Döpper and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigate reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice.
Book Synopsis Messages from the Past: Rock Art of Al-Hajar Mountains by : Angelo E. Fossati
Download or read book Messages from the Past: Rock Art of Al-Hajar Mountains written by Angelo E. Fossati and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angelo E. Fossati takes the reader on an in-depth journey into the various themes present in the rock art of Oman, offering theories on the chronology and interpretation, while exploring the landscape setting of the decorated panels. Highly illustrated throughout, beautiful photographs and scientific tracings of the rock art accompany the text.
Book Synopsis Archeologia e Calcolatori, 34.1, 2023 by : Agostino Sotgia
Download or read book Archeologia e Calcolatori, 34.1, 2023 written by Agostino Sotgia and published by All'Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il numero 34.1, 2022 della rivista Archeologia e Calcolatori è caratterizzato dalla pubblicazione degli Atti di due Convegni internazionali. Il primo riguarda la sedicesima edizione del Convegno ArcheoFOSS, dal titolo “Open Software, Hardware, Processes, Data and Formats in Archaeological Research”, svoltosi a Roma il 22-23 settembre 2022 presso la sede del Digilab della Sapienza Università di Roma. Gli Atti, curati da Julian Bogdani e Stefano Costa, comprendono 21 articoli che ben testimoniano il successo e la vitalità dell’iniziativa, nata nel 2006, cui si è più volte dato spazio nelle pagine della rivista. La seconda parte del volume, che raccoglie 14 contributi, è stata curata da Carlo Citter e Agostino Sotgia ed è dedicata agli Atti della Sessione speciale “Modelling the Landscape. From Prediction to Postdiction” della settima edizione della Landscape Archaeology Conference (Iași, Romania 10-15 September 2022). Si tratta di un tema dedicato all’uso dei modelli per lo studio dei paesaggi antichi, considerato sia attraverso l’approccio predittivo “tradizionale”, perché in uso dagli anni Novanta, sia attraverso quello postdittivo, che i curatori definiscono più “sperimentale”.
Book Synopsis Early Medieval Britain by : Pam J. Crabtree
Download or read book Early Medieval Britain written by Pam J. Crabtree and published by Case Studies in Early Societie. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.
Book Synopsis Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East by : Ruth Young
Download or read book Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East written by Ruth Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farmland, and to all intents and purposes, the village occupants themselves, a system that in some cases remained in place up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In Oman, mud-brick oases were home to most of the rural population right up until Sultan Qaboos came to power in 1970, and required inhabitants of mud-brick houses to relocate into new concrete block buildings. Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East explores these everyday, rural communities in Iran and Oman in the 19th and 20th centuries, through a combination of building analysis, excavation, artefact analysis and ethnographic interviews. Drawing on the results of original field projects, the book considers new ways of exploring traditional lifeways, giving voice to hitherto largely ignored sections of the population, and offers new and different ways of thinking about how these people lived and what shaped their lives and the impact of major political and social changes on them. Place, memory and belonging are considered through the lens of material culture within these villages. The first of its kind, the book brings together methodologies, research questions, and themes that have never been used or addressed in the Middle East. Helping to establish historical archaeology in the Middle East and providing new ways in which the memorable, quotidian past can be exploited for its social and economic value in contemporary community and heritage developments, it is an ideal resource for students, scholars and practitioners of historical archaeology and heritage of and in the Middle East.
Book Synopsis High Places in Oman by : Chiara Condoluci
Download or read book High Places in Oman written by Chiara Condoluci and published by L'Erma Di Bretschneider. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of two field seasons that the Italian Mission to Oman spent excavating a few tombs located on top of Jabal Salut in Central Oman. A cluster of these tombs was later razed and replaced by a small, rectangular pillared shrine built in stone and mortar that represents a unicum for the whole South East Arabia. The funerary monuments can be dated to the third and second millennium BC (Early to Middle Bronze Age), with evidence for reuse during the first millennium BC (local Iron Age). The small shrine is also datable to the Iron Age. In addition to architectural details, the excavations produced an abundance of pottery and soft stone vessels, which provide important dating information and enable the use of the tombs to be considered alongside evidence obtained from the excavation of nearby Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements. As well as showing the results from the excavations and placing them in a local context, it will be discussed how typical the results obtained from Jabal Salut might be for the rest of South East Arabia. In particular, it is tempting to consider what importance the region's ancient inhabitants gave to high places.
Book Synopsis The Sultanate of Oman by : M. A. Nayeem
Download or read book The Sultanate of Oman written by M. A. Nayeem and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World by : Karen Sonik
Download or read book Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World written by Karen Sonik and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Dr. Holly Pittman, Bok Family Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Near Eastern Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum). It was conceived to honor her extraordinary contributions to the field of Near Eastern studies as archaeologist, art historian, mentor, professor, and friend--Foreword.
