摘要:

The publication of field work in central Oman has lagged behind the excavations themselves. Whereas the pioneer archaeologists in Oman could identify sites and finds only as “Iron Age”, the work of the past 10 years has enabled a clear conceptual distinction to be made between the Early and Late Iron Age assemblages, as well as their regional characters. Using as a point of departure the Samad Complex, for which most intact contexts exist, the less well‐known Late Iron Age of the North and South of Oman is compared by means of newly recorded material from old excavations, there, as well as from a recent survey. There were contacts between central Oman and the South Province, Dhofar although such are elusive. Despite, archaeologically speaking, undeniable trade and ethnic contacts with the outside world, central Oman has a distinctive character of its own which has not been properly credited by specialists of the final Pre‐Islamic

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1993.tb00044.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Palaeogeographic analysis and radiocarbon dating indicate that sometime in the second half of the fifth millennium BC a sea‐level rise occurred along the coast of the western side of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf. Cultural remains of the‘Ubaid archaeological period are intimately associated with the event and the palaeogeographic environment that accompanied it. The sea‐level rise appears to have had a catastrophic effect on habitation

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1993.tb00045.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This paper presents an analysis of sherds, collected from five archaeological sites at‘Ain as‐Sayh in Saudi Arabia. The original material has not been available to the author. Consequently, the analysis is based on drawings, photos, and notes provided by H. A. McClure, one of the researchers who collected the material in the field. The sherds may be divided into two groups: one dated to the‘Ubaid period, and one dated roughly to the third millennium BC. In the paper the sherds are typologized and compared with material from other sites. A dating of the‘Ain as‐Sayh sites is attempted with reference to the distribution of pottery‐types on the sites, geomorphological information, and a set of mutually consistent radioc

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1993.tb00046.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1993.tb00047.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY