The Bronze Age Towers At Bat Sultanate Of Oman

Author : Christopher P. Thornton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1934536075
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Stephanie Döpper
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 180327820X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of Identity: Bronze Age Towers of the Oman Peninsula written by Stephanie Döpper and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Early Bronze Age, monumental stone and mud-brick structures known as towers appeared in Oman. This book aims to update the long-standing discussions on these towers and to assess their chronological depth of more than a millennium. The book also reassesses their possible functions in the light of recent archaeological research.

Author : Laura Battini
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803271574
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Stephanie Döpper
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803276975
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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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).

Author : Kimberly D. Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275308
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Kimberly D. Williams
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683400933
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Daniel Eddisford
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789692318
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Serge Cleuziou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789697891
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Claudio Giardino
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789691796
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Nasser S. Al-Jahwari
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270837
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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).