Download or read book The Natural Environment of Jebel Al Buhais written by Hans-Peter Uerpmann and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Natural History of the Emirates written by John A. Burt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, thoughts of the United Arab Emirates conjure images of ultramodern skyscrapers and rolling sand dunes. However, the Emirates are a rich mosaic of ecosystems and habitats that support surprisingly diverse communities of organisms, and there is growing awareness of the importance of these previously underappreciated natural assets. A Natural History of the Emirates provides a comprehensive overview of the unusual environmental setting of this young nation, and surveys the major ecosystems and the marine and terrestrial organisms occurring across the nation. From freshwater streams in the hyperarid Hajar Mountains to the world’s most temperature-tolerant coral reefs, the UAE is home to an astounding variety of uniquely adapted organisms that are providing insights into climate change and how organisms cope with and respond to extreme environmental conditions. The book closes with a section on human interactions with this unique environment, and proposes initiatives to ensure the protection of these unique natural assets into the future. This is an open access book.

Download or read book Dosariyah An Arabian Neolithic Coastal Community in the Central Gulf written by Philipp Drechsler and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the work carried out by the joint German-Saudi Dosariyah Archaeological Research Project (DARP) between 2010 and 2014 at Dosariyah, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

Download or read book Landscape History of Hadramawt written by Michael J. Harrower and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of AIA's 2022 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports The rugged highlands of southern Yemen are one of the less archaeologically explored regions of the Near East. This final report of survey and excavations by the Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project addresses the development of food production and human landscapes, topics of enduring interest as scholarly conceptualizations of the Anthropocene take shape. Along with data from Manayzah, site of the earliest dated remains of clearly domesticated animals in Arabia, the volume also documents some of the earliest water management technologies in Arabia, thereby anchoring regional dates for the beginnings of pastoralism and of potential farming. The authors argue that the initial Holocene inhabitants of Wadi Sana were Arabian hunters who adopted limited pastoral stock in small social groups, then expanded their social collectives through sacrifice and feasts in a sustained pastoral landscape. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience of archaeologists including not only those working in Arabia, but more broadly those interested in the ancient Near East, Africa, South Asia, and in Holocene landscape histories generally.

Download or read book A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East written by D. T. Potts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ancient material culture from the late Pleistocene to Late Antiquity. This expansive two-volume work includes 58 new essays from an international community of ancient Near East scholars. With coverage extending from Asia Minor, the eastern Mediterranean, and Egypt to the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indo-Iranian borderlands, the book highlights the enormous variation in cultural developments across roughly 11,000 years of human endeavor. In addition to chapters devoted to specific regions and particular periods, many contributors concentrate on individual industries and major themes in ancient Near Eastern archaeology, ranging from metallurgy and agriculture to irrigation and fishing. Controversial issues, including the nature and significance of the antiquities market, ethical considerations in archaeological praxis, the history of the foundation of departments of antiquities, and ancient attitudes towards the past, make this a unique collection of studies that will be of interest to scholars, students, and interested readers alike.

Download or read book An Introduction to Human Prehistory in Arabia written by Jeffrey I. Rose and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook explores the mystery of human origins in the Arabian Peninsula, the lost Southern Crescent where humanity took its first steps toward civilization. Under Arabia’s surface of sand and stone lies a primordial realm of rolling grasslands, freshwater lakes, and river floodplains. This book aims to restore a critical missing chapter in the prehistory of our species that played out in this forgotten place of plenty. The author has carried out more than twenty years of fieldwork in Yemen and Oman, weaving his research together into an unorthodox tapestry of archaeology, environmental science, genetics, and Middle Eastern mythology. This volume peers beneath Arabia’s abandoned deserts, revealing a land that once served as a bridge between prehistoric worlds. This textbook is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students as well as all readers who are interested in learning about Arabian prehistory.

Download or read book Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East written by Joy McCorriston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East by focusing on the traditions of pilgrimage and household.

Download or read book Archaeozoology of the Near East written by Marjan Mashkour and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two part volume brings together over 60 specialists to present 31 papers on the latest research into archaeozoology of the Near East. The papers are wide-ranging in terms of period and geographical coverage: from Palaeolithic rock shelter assemblages in Syria to Byzantine remains in Palestine and from the Caucasus to Cyprus. Papers are grouped into thematic sections examining patterns of Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence in northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau; Palaeolithic to Neolithic faunal remains from Armenia; animal exploitation in Bronze Age urban sites; new evidence concerning pastoralism, nomadism and mobility; aspects of domestication and animal exploitation in the Arabian peninsula; several case studies on ritual animal deposits; and specific analyses of patterns of animal exploitation at urban sites in Turkey, Palestine and Jordan. This important collection of significant new work builds on the well-established foundation of previous ICAZ publications to present the very latest results of archaeozoological research in the prehistory of this formative region in the development of animal exploitation.

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.

Download or read book The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia written by Peter Magee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored regions of the ancient world. This book provides the first extensive coverage of the archaeology of this region from c.9000 to 800 BC. Peter Magee argues that a unique social system, which relied on social cohesion and actively resisted the hierarchical structures of adjacent states, emerged during the Neolithic and continued to contour society for millennia later. The book also focuses on how the historical context in which Near Eastern archaeology was codified has led to a skewed understanding of the multiplicity of lifeways pursued by ancient peoples living throughout the Middle East.

Download or read book Advances in UAE Archaeology written by Zayed National Museum and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New excavations conducted across the United Arab Emirates over the last few years are presented here, revealing a wealth of new data on all periods of UAE archaeology from the Palaeolithic to the recent past. Some of these discoveries fill important gaps in our knowledge, while others have fundamentally revised what we thought we knew already.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies written by Honarary Research Fellow Centre for Middle East and Islamic Studies Janet Starkey and published by Archaeopress Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2008.

Download or read book The Capital Area of northern Oman Stone age sites and their natural environment written by Christian Hannss and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Werk behandelt Archaologie und Umwelt im Norden des Sultanats Oman fur den Zeitraum vom Ende der letzten Eiszeit bis zum Beginn der Bronzezeit. Es stutzt sich dabei auf die Tubinger Ausgrabungen und Gelandeforschungen zwischen 1970 und 1988, deren Ergebnisse hier abschliessend vorgelegt werden, und stellt sie in den Zusammenhang der neuen Erkenntnisse, die in der Zwischenzeit fur diesen Zeitraum in Sudost-Arabien gewonnen sind. Besonders wichtig ist der Nachweis einer vorneolithischen Besiedlung ab etwa 9000 BC. Die Neolithisierung erfolgte spatestens am Ubergang vom 6. zum 5. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend durch die Einwanderung von nomadischen Rinder-, Schaf- und Ziegenhirten, die Verbindungen zum Fruchtbaren Halbmond gehabt haben mussen. Bereits im 5. Jahrtausend v. Chr. entwickelte diese Bevolkerung eine spezifische Wirtschaftsform, die sich stark auf die Einbeziehung von marinen Ressourcen stutzte. Zusammen mit der Haustierhaltung und der Nutzung sonstiger okologischer Nischen erlaubte die Fischerei trotz der insgesamt marginalen Umweltverhaltnisse eine zunehmende Sesshaftigkeit.Breiter Raum wird der Darstellung der Funde und Befunde aus jungsteinzeitlichen und akeramisch-bronzezeitlichen Siedlungsplatzen in der Gegend um die omanische Hauptstadt Musqat gewidmet. Vergleichend werden Siedlungen des Gebiets um Quriyar behandelt. Eine ausfuhrlich kommentierte 14C-Chronologie liefert die zeitliche Einordnung der Fundstellen. Topographische und stratigraphische Angaben erlauben die Einordnung der zahlreichen Feuerstein- und sonstigen Steinartefakte sowie der Schmuck- und Gebrauchsgegenstande aus Perlmutt und anderen Muschelschalen, die sowohl tabellarisch wie in vielen Zeichnungen dokumentiert werden. Ein gesonderter Beitrag von Stephan Scholer stellt mineralogische und geochemische Untersuchungen an Schmuckobjekten des 4. Jahrtausends v. Chr. vor und beurteilt die mogliche Herkunft der Rohmaterialien.Der andere Schwerpunkt der Arbeit ist die Auswertung der anthropogenen Tierreste sowohl aus den Tubinger Grabungen wie auch aus den Grabungen eines italienischen Teams an den Fundstellen des Ra's al-Hamra bei Musqat. Tausende von Fisch- und Schildkrotenknochen geben detaillierte Hinweise auf den hochspezialisierten Nahrungserwerb einer Menschengruppe am damaligen Rand der menschlichen Okumene. Abschliessend werden die Ergebnisse in den Rahmen der Klimaentwicklung gestellt und mit denen anderer Fundstellen verglichen. Es ergibt sich das faszinierende Bild einer eigenstandigen Entwicklung in einem Teilraum der Arabischen Halbinsel, der einerseits durch das wustenhafte Hinterland isoliert war, andererseits aber durch maritime Kontakte die fruhe Kulturentwicklung des Raumes zwischen Mesopotamien und dem Industal seit der spaten Steinzeit mit bestimmt hat.

Download or read book Extreme Events in Human Evolution From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene written by Huw Groucutt and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates written by Daniel T. Potts and published by Trident Press Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East 29 March 3 April 2004 Freie Universit t Berlin The reconstruction of environment natural resources and human interrelations through time art history visual communication written by Hartmut Kühne and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congress hosted 611 registered participants from 38 countries. Its aim was to be an international forum for scholars and demands of Near Eastern Archaeology. From the four sections of the Congress, Vol. I: 1) The Reconstruction of Environment. Natural Resources and Human Interrelation through Time, 2) Visual Communication, [Vol. II: 3) Social and Cultural Transformation: The Archaeology of Transitional Periods and Dark Ages, 4) Archaeological Field Reports (Excavations, Surveys, Conservation) ISBN 978344705757-8].Together these volumes unite 77 contributions on about 1100 pages. They are arranged according to the sections. The rst three will be introduced by the key lectures which were given by Tony Wilkinson, Winfried Orthmann, and Roger Matthews. The resumes of these sections were provided by Wendy Matthews, Dominik Bonatz, and Diederik J.W. Meijer. The contributions cover many aspects of the main themes through time, from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic / Roman period, and offer interdisciplinary approaches to complex archaeological problems.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains selected papers given at the 4th-47th Seminars, held 1970-2015