Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 48 2018

Contents

Editors??? Foreword ; Bayt Bin Himd, a case study of a merchant???s house in old Jiddah (poster) ??? by Hidaya M. Abbas; Documenting the traditional architecture of Khatbah village in Saudi Arabia (poster) ??? by Aisha Alshehri; Liminality: narratives of identity on Abu Dhabi???s desert islands ??? by Marie-Claire Bakker & Mariam Yousef Alhammadi; Bahrah 1: eight years of excavations of an Ubaid culture-related settlement in the al-Sabiyyah desert (Kuwait) ??? by Piotr Bieli??ski; From tentscape to landscape: a multi-scale analysis of long-term patterns of occupation in north-west Qatar ??? by Jose C. Carvajal L??pez, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, Robert Carter & Fay??al ??Abd All??h al-Na????m??; Living in Mad??in S??lih/Hegra during the late pre-Islamic period. The excavations of Area 1 in the ancient city ??? by Guillaume Charloux, Charl??ne Bouchaud, Caroline Durand, Yvonne Gerber & Jacqueline Studer; The origins of Abrahah???s cathedral and the Great Mosque ??? a water sanctuary of the old Arabian religion ??? by Werner Daum; Use of archival aerial photographs for archaeological research in the Arabian Gulf ??? by Richard N. Fletcher, Robert A. Carter & Frederick Nesta; Bridging the enclosure and the tower tomb: new insights from the W??d?? Sharm?? sites, north-west Arabia ??? by Sumio Fujii; The LCG2 complex at Dibb?? (Musandam, Oman, II???I millennium BC): structural, material, and osteological elements ??? by Francesco Genchi, Luciano Fattore, Alessia Nava & Elena Maini; Magnetometer survey of a Hafit monumental complex, al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman (poster) ??? by Jason T. Herrmann, J??rg W.E. Fa??binder, Marion Scheiblecker, Philippe Kluge, Stephanie D??pper & Conrad Schmidt; New evidence of Iron Age ritual practices in central Oman: 2017 excavations in Mudm??r East, near ??dam ??? by Mathilde Jean, Maria Paola Pellegrino & Guillaume Gernez; New light on Bronze Age trade in the Arabian Gulf: a Dilmun trading port on S??r Ban?? Y??s island, UAE ??? by Abdulla Khalfan Al Kaabi & Ali Abdul Rahman Al Meqbali; Results from the 2009???2016 excavation seasons in the historical centre of D??mat al-Jandal, ancient Adummatu ??? by Romolo Loreto; The new archaeological joint project on the site of Qurayyah, north-west Arabia: results of the first two excavation seasons ??? by 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 ??? by Marta Luciani, Michaela Binder & Abdullah S. Alsaud; Sea level and climatic influences on the occupation of Qatar and the Gulf during the Holocene period ??? by Phillip G. Macumber; The Neolithic of Sharbith??t (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman): typological, technological, and experimental approaches ??? by Maria Pia Maiorano, Gr??gor Marchand, J??r??mie Vosges, Jean-Fran??ois Berger, Federico Borgi & Vincent Charpentier; The historical context of grave 58 (G58) from the Sin??w area (al-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman): a warrior during the Samad Late Iron Age? (poster) ??? by Fausto Mauro; Women in Soqotri and Omani folklore ??? by Vitaly Naumkin & Leonid Kogan; The early Islamic glass from S??r Ban?? Y??s, UAE ??? by Matt Phelps, St John Simpson & Ian C. Freestone; Late Islamic fishing industry in the Gulf: the case of Khar?????ib al-Dasht, Jaz??rat Faylak?? (poster) ??? by Agnieszka Pie??kowska & Marta Mierzejewska; Routes across Arabia: pilgrimage routes from the region of the modern United Arab Emirates in historical context ??? by Fergus Reoch; The Th??j Archaeological Project: results of the first field season ??? by J??r??me Rohmer, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Mahmud al-Hajiri, Rozan Alkhatib Alkontar, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Paul Calou, Damien Gazagne & Kosmas Pavlopoulos; A tumulus cemetery on the north coast of Kuwait Bay: results of survey and excavation in the al-Sabiyyah region ??? by ??ukasz Rutkowski; KALAM reloaded ??? by Ronald Ruzicka; Al-???Ayn Oase