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The Archaeology of North Arabia, Oases and Landscapes

Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 4

The Archaeology of North Arabia, Oases and Landscapes

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8002-9
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-8086-9
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Preliminaries

1

Contents

5

Barbara Horejs

Preface by the Series Editor

7

Marta Luciani

Introduction

9

Marta Luciani

1 Mobility, Contacts and the Definition of Culture(s) in New Archaeological Research in Northwest Arabia

21

Michèle Dinies, Reinder Neef, Birgit Plessen, Harald Kürschner

2 Holocene Vegetation, Climate, Land Use and Plant Cultivation in the Tayma Region, Northwestern Arabia

57

Hans Georg K. Gebel

3 The Socio-Hydraulic Foundations of Oasis Life in NW Arabia: The 5th Millennium BCE Shepherd Environs of Rajajil, Rasif and Qulban Beni Murra

79

Sumio Fujii

4 Wadi Ghubai and Wadi Mohorak Sites: Protohistoric Burial Fields in the Tabuk Province, Northwestern Arabia

115

Arnulf Hausleiter, Alina Zur

5 Taymāᵓ in the Bronze Age (c. 2,000 BCE): Settlement and Funerary Landscapes

135

Andrea Intilia

6 Qurayyah Painted Ware: A Reassessment of 40 Years of Research on its Origins, Chronology and Distribution

175

Jérémie Schiettecatte, Antoine Chabrol, Éric Fouache

7 Landscape and Settlement Process in al-Kharj Oasis (Province of Riyadh) .

257

Jérôme Rohmer, Zbigniew T. Fiema

8 Early Hegra: New Insights from the Excavations in Areas 2 and 9 at Madāᵓin Ṣāliḥ (Saudi Arabia)

281

Romolo Loreto

9 The Role of Dūmat al-Jandal in Ancient North Arabian Routes from Pre-History to Historical Periods

299

Michael C. A. Macdonald

10 Three Dimensions in Two: Convention and Experiment in the Rock Art of Ancient North Arabia

317

Alessandra Avanzini

11 From South to North in Ancient Arabia

337

Reinhard Pirngruber

12 ‘Arabs’ in Late First Millennium BCE Babylonia

345

Sultan Muhesen, Faisal Al Naimi

13 An Overview of Archaeological Discoveries in Qatar During the Past 60 Years

355