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An unusual stone tool assemblage, reported for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula, occurs at the southwest edge of the Rub’al Khali desert. The assemblage is characterized by large, unifacially worked, prominently tanged points and scrapers. An age of between about 20,000 and 35,000 years B.P., when the Rub’al Khali was a well‐watered grassland, is likely. Typological affinity with the Aterian stone tool industry of North Africa is suggested. Aterian toolmakers were a vigorous population of desert hunters, ranging over much of North Africa and the Sahara during a wet phase of the late Pleistocene. Pursuit of animals running in herds may have been a hunting strategy reflected in some of the Aterian and Arabian tools. Typology of the tanged tools and the palaeogeographic context in which they occur suggest certain specific functional

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00052.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Our knowledge of the prehistory of coastal Oman has greatly increased during the last ten years. This article considers the radiocarbon chronology of the aceramic shell‐middens scattered along the coast between Muscat, to the north, and Shuwayr, to the south. The appearance of these middens seems to correspond to the climatic deterioration that, according to more recent results, took place around the middle of the seventh millennium BP. The number of sites seems to have increased since the beginning of the actual arid phase, around 6000 B

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00053.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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This article is written from first‐hand observation, albeit without the benefit of any controlled excavation. It is a “tourist observation.” It is offered to alert the archaeological community to a series of discoveries of singular importance in the history of the Persian Gulf, namely the discovery beneath the sands of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia of a Christian church predating (and postdating?) the appearance of Islam and the identification of two other nearby Christian

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00054.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Two small crosses, one of bronze and the other of mother‐of‐pearl, from the surface of a site near Jabal Berri in northeastern Saudi Arabia are presented. They are attributed to the Nestorian community of Bet Qatraye which is known from literary sources to have flourished during the Sasanian per

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00055.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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In a persuasive article (AAE1: 1990: 110–128), F. de Blois has argued for A.D. 523 as the year of the South Arabian martyrdoms. There are a few errors in this otherwise sober and balanced article, which I have pointed out in this short communication in the hope that they will be eliminated in future discussions of this proble

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00056.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Editor's note.The article published here was completed on October 22, 1966. Although never published before, copies have long been on file in both the Dept. of Coins and Medals in the British Museum, and at the American Numismatic Society. The basic content of the hoard was reported on inCoin Hoards 1(1975). In 1986, Robert W. Morris revised the text of his paper and sent me a copy. After the founding ofArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, I asked him whether he would like to publish the paper, a suggestion to which he responded enthusiastically. On August 25, 1990, just ten days after I sent him a letter about my plans for preparing his text for publication, Robert W. Morris died from complications of myeloma. An avid amateur numismatist for many years, Morris was interested in the pre‐Islamic and Islamic coinage of northeastern Arabia (where he had lived and worked for Aramco) right up until his death. It is hoped that, while there may be certain details in the paper which professional numismatists might wish to correct, the body of material presented here will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars concerned with the late pre‐Islamic and early Islamic periods in eastern Ara

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00057.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY