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  • Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium

    The Bronze Age Collective Graves of Qarn al-Harf, Ras al-Khaimah (UAE)

    by Derek Kennet, Alyson Caine, Anna Hilton, Lloyd Weeks, Christian Velde ...
    First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes.The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in south-east Arabia (the United Arab Emirates and northern Oman). The cultural homogeneity of the preceding Early Bronze Age, Umm an-Nar period (c. 2700 ... Read more

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  • Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th Century AD)

    The Williamson Survey

    by Seth M. N. Priestman, Derek Kennet ...
    This monograph comprises the final publication of a study supported by the British Institute of Persian Studies and undertaken by Seth Priestman and Derek Kennet at the University of Durham. The work presents and analyses an assemblage of just under 17,000 sherds of pottery and associated paper archives resulting from one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken on the ... Read more

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  • Bahrain Through The Ages - the Archaeology

    Edited by Shaikha Haya Ali Al Khalifa, Michael Rice ...
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  • Not Just for Show

    The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments

    Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Alice M. Choyke ...
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  • The Tomb of Pharaoh’s Chancellor Senneferi at Thebes (TT99)

    Edited by Nigel Strudwick ...
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  • Communities in Transition

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