Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 48 2018

Contents

Guidelines and Transliteration

Editors’ Foreword

Bayt Bin Himd, a case study of a merchant’s house in old Jiddah (poster) – Hidaya M. Abbas

Documenting the traditional architecture of Khatbah village in Saudi Arabia (poster) – Aisha Alshehri

Liminality: narratives of identity on Abu Dhabi’s desert islands – Marie-Claire Bakker & Mariam Yousef Alhammadi

Bahrah 1: eight years of excavations of an Ubaid culture-related settlement in the al-Сabiyyah desert (Kuwait) – Piotr Bieliński

From tentscape to landscape: a multi-scale analysis of long-term patterns of occupation in north-west Qatar – Jose C. Carvajal López, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, Robert Carter & Faysal ‘Abd Allāh al-Na’īmī

Living in Madā’in Sālih/Hegra during the late pre-Islamic period. The excavations of Area 1 in the ancient city – Guillaume Charloux, Charlène Bouchaud, Caroline Durand, Yvonne Gerber & Jacqueline Studer

San’ā’: the origins of Abrahah’s cathedral and the Great Mosque — a water sanctuary of the old Arabian religion – Werner Daum

Use of archival aerial photographs for archaeological research in the Arabian Gulf – Richard N. Fletcher, Robert A. Carter & Frederick Nesta

Bridging the enclosure and the tower tomb: new insights from the Wādī Sharmā sites, north-west Arabia – Sumio Fujii

The LCG2 complex at Dibbā (Musandam, Oman, II–I millennium BC): structural, material, and osteological elements – Francesco Genchi, Luciano Fattore, Alessia Nava & Elena Maini

Magnetometer survey of a Hafit monumental complex, al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman (poster) – Jason T. Herrmann, Jörg W.E. Faßbinder, Marion Scheiblecker, Philippe Kluge, Stephanie Döpper & Conrad Schmidt

New evidence of Iron Age ritual practices in central Oman: 2017 excavations in Mudmār East, near Ādam – Mathilde Jean, Maria Paola Pellegrino & Guillaume Gernez

New light on Bronze Age trade in the Arabian Gulf: a Dilmun trading port on Sīr Banī Yās island, UAE – Abdulla Khalfan Al Kaabi & Ali Abdul Rahman Al Meqbali

Results from the 2009–2016 excavation seasons in the historical centre of Dūmat al-Jandal, ancient Adummatu – Romolo Loreto

The new archaeological joint project on the site of Qurayyah, north-west Arabia: results of the first two excavation seasons – Marta Luciani & Abdullah S. Alsaud

Life and living conditions in north-west Arabia during the Bronze Age: first results from the bioarchaeological work at Qurayyah – Marta Luciani, Michaela Binder & Abdullah S. Alsaud

Sea level and climatic influences on the occupation of Qatar and the Gulf during the Holocene period – Phillip G. Macumber

The Neolithic of Sharbithāt (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman): typological, technological, and experimental approaches – Maria Pia Maiorano, Grégor Marchand, Jérémie Vosges, Jean-François Berger, Federico Borgi & Vincent Charpentier

The historical context of grave 58 (G58) from the Sināw area (al-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman): a warrior during the Samad Late Iron Age? (poster) – Fausto Mauro

Women in Soqotri and Omani folklore – Vitaly Naumkin & Leonid Kogan

The early Islamic glass from Сīr Banī Yās, UAE – Matt Phelps, St John Simpson & Ian C. Freestone

Late Islamic fishing industry in the Gulf: the case of Kharā’ib al-Dasht, Jazīrat Faylakā (poster) – Agnieszka Pieńkowska & Marta Mierzejewska

Routes across Arabia: pilgrimage routes from the region of the modern United Arab Emirates in historical context – Fergus Reoch

The Thāj Archaeological Project: results of the fir