H 255 x W 205 mm
205 pages
Colour illustrations throughout
Published Dec 2020
ISBN
Paperback: 9781789697377
Digital: 9781789697384
Keywords
Arabia; Arabian Peninsular; Lithics; Stone tools; Prehistory
Related titles
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 2020
Edited by K. Bretzke, R. Crassard, Yamandú H. Hilbert
Paperback
£30.00
This volume presents the proceedings from the special one-day session on the stone tools of prehistoric Arabia, held during the Seminar for Arabian Studies (Leiden 2019).
Editors’ Foreword ;
New Palaeolithic sites around Al-Badʾ, north-western Saudi Arabia (Rémy Crassard, Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux , Samer A. Sahlah & Waleed A. Badaiwi) ;
The Palaeolithic record from the Central Region of the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Knut Bretzke) ;
Middle and Late Pleistocene lithic technology from the region of Dûmat al-Jandal, northern Saudi Arabia (Yamandú H. Hilbert & Rémy Crassard) ;
Lower and Middle Paleolithic Sites from the Rufa Graben central Saudi Arabia (Rémy Crassard & Yamandú H. Hilbert) ;
The net of Nubian core and foldability: an attempt to individualize the lithic technology in the Palaeolithic (Amir Beshkani)
Living and moving in Maitan: Neolithic settlements and regional exchanges in the southern Rub’ al-Khali (Sultanate of Oman) (Maria Pia Maiorano, Mohammed Al Kindi, Vincent Charpentier, Jérémie Vosges, Dominique Gommery, Grégor Marchand, Ahmed Qatan, Federico Borgi & Martin Pickford) ;
Lithics of a cache-like feature at the high-elevation polje Hayl Al-Ajah inside the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar of northern Oman (Inna Mateiciucová, Maximilian Wilding, Denis Štefanisko & Gerhard Trnka) ;
Some remarks on the lithic assemblage from a coastal Ubaid-related settlement site on Delma Island, Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates (Heiko Kallweit & Mark Jonathan Beech) ;
The chipped stone assemblage from Hili 8 — Early Bronze Age innovation vs. Neolithic tradition (Norbert Buchinger, Marc Händel, Peter Magee, Ali Al Meqbali & Abdulla Al Kaabi) ;
Bronze Age microliths at Saruq al-Hadid, Dubai (Mark W. Moore, Lloyd Weeks, Charlotte M. Cable, Yaaqoub Youssef Al-Ali, Mansour Boraik & Hassan Zein) [Open Access: Download] ;
A Hafit-period stone tool assemblage from Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman (Ullrich Ochs) ;
The lithic industry from the Iron Age coastal settlement HAS1 (Inqitat), southern Oman (Yamandú H. Hilbert & Silvia Lischi)