Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 37 (2007)

Papers from the fortieth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, 27-29 July 2006

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347 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, maps, drawings and photographs.

Steering Committee of the Seminar and Editorial Committee of the Proceedings:
Dr D. Kennet (Chairman), Prof. K. Al-Muaikel, Prof. A. Avanzini, Dr M. Beech, Dr R. Carter, Dr N. Durrani, Dr R. Eichmann, Prof. C. Holes, Dr R.G. Hoyland, M.C.A. Macdonald, Dr A. MacMahon (Secretary), 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)

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CONTENTS:

Transliteration (page vii)

Editors' Foreword (page ix)

Geoff Bailey, Abdullah AlSharekh, Nic Flemming, Kurt Lambeck, Garry Momber, Anthony Sinclair
& Claudio Vita-Finzi, Coastal prehistory in the southern Red Sea Basin, underwater archaeology,
and the Farasan Islands (pages 1-16)

A. Benoist, O. Lavigne, M. Mouton & J. Schiettecatte, Chronologie et évolution de l'architecture à
Makaynun: la formation d'un centre urbain à l'époque sudarabique dans le Hadramawt (pages 17-35)

Stephen A. Buckley, Joann Fletcher, Khalid Al-Thour, Mohammed Basalama & Don R. Brothwell,
A preliminary study on the materials employed in ancient Yemeni mummification
and burial practices (summary) (pages 37-41)

Rémy Crassard & Holger Hitgen, From Safer to Balhaf - rescue excavations along the Yemen LNG pipeline route (pages 43-59)

Richard Cuttler, Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit, Anja Zander & Walid Yasin Al-Tikriti, Pastoral nomadic communities of the Holocene climatic optimum: excavation and research at Kharimat Khor al-Manahil and Khor al-Manahil in the Rub al-Khali, Abu Dhabi (pages 61-78)

Parsival Delrue, Flip the coin. Preliminary results of compositional EDX analyses on south-east Arabian coins from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (pages 79-92)

Philipp Drechsler, Spreading the Neolithic over the Arabian Peninsula (pages 93-109)

Ingrid Hehmeyer, Water and waste in mediaeval Zabid, Yemen (pages 111-123)

Christine Kepinski, Tribal links between the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle Euphrates at the beginning of the second millennium BC (pages 125-134)

Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Rare photographs from the 1930s and 1940s by Yihye Haybi, a Yemenite Jew from Sana'a: historical reality and ethnographic deductions (pages 135-155)

Harriet Nash, Stargazing in traditional water management: a case study in northern Oman (pages 157-170)

Lynne S. Newton, Al Qisha: archaeological investigations at an Islamic period Yemeni village (pages 171-186)

Audrey Peli & Florian Téreygeol, Al-Radrad (al-Jabali): a Yemeni silver mine, first results of the French mission (2006) (pages 187-200)

Carl Phillips & St J. Simpson, A biographical sketch of Britain's first Sabaeologist - Colonel W.F. Prideaux, CSI (pages 201-218)

Jeffrey Rose, The Arabian Corridor Migration Model: archaeological evidence for hominin dispersals into Oman during the Middle and Upper Pleistocene (pages 219-237)

Axelle Rougeulle, Ceramic production in mediaeval Yemen: the Yadgat kiln site (pages 239-252)

Fiorella Scagliarini, The word slm/snm and some words for "statue, idol" in Arabian and other Semitic languages (pages 253-262)

Juergen Schreiber, "Transformation processes in oasis settlements in Oman" 2005 archaeological survey at the oasis of Nizwa: a preliminary report (pages 263-275)

Julie Scott-Jackson, William Scott-Jackson & Sabah Jasim, Middle Palaeolithic - or what?
New sites in Sharjah, UAE (pages 277-279)

T. Steimer-Herbet, J-F. Saliège, T. Sagory, O. Lavigne & A. as-Saqqaf, in collaboration with M. Mashkour & H. Guy, Rites and funerary practices at Rawk during the fourth millennium BC (Wadi 'Idim, Yemen) (pages 281-294)

Brian Ulrich, The sources on the Fitna of Mas'ud b. 'Amr al-Azdi and their uses for Basran tribal history (pages 295-296)

An De Waele, The beads of ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) (pages 297-308)

Juris Zarins, Aspects of recent archaeological work at al-Balid (Zafar), Sultanate of Oman (pages 309-324)

Ahmad b. 'Umar al-Zayla'i, Towards a new theory: the state of Bani Mahdi, the fourth imamate in Yemen (pages 325-334)

Papers read at the 2006 Seminar (pages 335-337)

Posters presented at the 2006 Seminar (page 337)

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