Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 48 2018

Dr Janet Starkey formerly worked at KISR, Kuwait, and elsewhere in the Middle East; at the British Museum, London and the Oriental Museum, Durham; and as a lecturer in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies at Durham University, UK. Following her retirement from Durham, she lectures for the u3a in the Scottish Borders.

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 Bieliński; From tentscape to landscape: a multi-scale analysis of long-term patterns of occupation in north-west Qatar – by Jose C. Carvajal López, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, Robert Carter & FayΒal ΚAbd Allāh al-NaΚīmī; Living in Madāin Sālih/Hegra during the late pre-Islamic period. The excavations of Area 1 in the ancient city – by Guillaume Charloux, Charlène 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 Wādī Sharmā sites, north-west Arabia – by Sumio Fujii; The LCG2 complex at Dibbā (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, 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 – by 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 – by 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 – 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 Sharbithāt (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman): typological, technological, and experimental approaches – by 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) – by Fausto Mauro; Women in Soqotri and Omani folklore – by Vitaly Naumkin & Leonid Kogan; The early Islamic glass from Sīr Banī Yās, UAE – by 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) – by Agnieszka Pieńkowska & Marta Mierzejewska; Routes across Arabia: pilgrimage routes from the region of the modern United Arab Emirates in historical context – by Fergus Reoch; The Thāj Archaeological Project: results of the first field season – by Jérôme 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 Łukasz Rutkowski; KALAM reloaded – by Ronald Ruzicka; Al-’Ayn Oases Mapping Project: al-Hīlī Oasis 2017 – by Peter Sheehan, Timothy Power & Omar Salem Al Kaabi; New data from the renewed excavation at Salūt: the Iron Age settlement (Qaryat Salūt) – by Enrica Tagliamonte & Alessandra Avanzini; Understanding the urban space of an Arabian oasis: the residential quarter of Taymā’ – by Luna Watkins; Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 4 to 6 August 2017