Stephanie Döpper is Professor of Cultural Heritage at the Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage, Heidelberg University, Germany. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen in 2015, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Universities of Leiden and Frankfurt on the reuse of tombs and settlement systems in central Oman. Her research interests include digital archaeology, landscape archaeology, the archaeology of mobility, pottery studies, and mortuary practices. Since 2010 she has been conducting research in the Sultanate of Oman, excavating Bronze Age and Islamic sites in Bat, Al-Ayn, Al-Khashbah and other sites in Wilayat Al-Mudhaybi.
Stephanie Döpper
In the Early Bronze Age, monumental stone and mud-brick structures known as towers appeared in Oman. This book aims to update the long-standing discussions on these towers and to assess their chronological depth of more than a millennium. The book also reassesses their possible functions in the light of recent archaeological research. READ MORE
Paperback: £48.00 | Open Access
Stephanie Döpper
The 2018 archaeological survey at Tawi Said, located on the edge of the Sharqiyah desert in the Sultanate of Oman, yielded close to 8,600 artifacts, the majority being pottery sherds. Two significant phases are attested by the survey's finds: the Wadi Suq period (2000-1600 BCE) and the Late Islamic period (1650-1970 CE). READ MORE
Hardback: £55.00 | Open Access
Stephanie Döpper
This book investigate reuse of tombs in Eastern Arabia from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Sasanian period in order to understand the underlying purposes and social context of this practice. READ MORE
Hardback: £60.00 | Open Access
Stephanie Döpper
This volume presents the results of a survey conducted in 2015 and beyond in Al-Khashbah, one of the largest Early Bronze Age sites on the Omani Peninsula. Ten monumental buildings, 273 tombs and other structures from the Hafit (3100-2700 BC) and Umm an-Nar periods (2700-2000 BC) were documented here. READ MORE
Hardback: £96.00 | Open Access
Stephanie Döpper
A study of the Early Bronze Age necropolises of the UNESCO world heritage sites Bat and Al-Ayn, and the monumental tower structure Building II at Bat, this volume reports on the architecture and stratigraphy, find assemblages from the excavated buildings (including pottery and small finds), along with anthropological and anthracological studies. READ MORE
Hardback: £80.00 | Open Access