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1 online resource (585 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Untitled -- Preface to the International Release To Build on Solid Ground -- Foreword to the Second Expanded Edition Serge Cleuziou and Maurizio Tosi Cornerstones of Archaeological Research in Oman -- Editorial Note A Posthumous Expanded Edition Dennys Frenez & Roman Garba -- Acknowledgements -- An Arabian Explorer in a Cartesian MindIn Memoriam of Serge Cleuziou 1945 -- 2009 Maurizio Tosi -- A Scientist of CuriosityIn Memoriam of Maurizio Tosi 1944 -- 2017 Dennys Frenez |
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Chapter 1 A Land of Many Landscapes for Greater Opportunities -- Chapter 2 The Search for the Earliest Humans in Oman -- Window 1 On the Trail of the First Humans in Oman Jeffrey Rose -- Chapter 3 From Early Hunters to the Last Foragers -- Window 2 Early Herders at Al-Buhais 18 Margarethe Uerpmann & Hans-Peter Uerpmann -- Window 3 Earliest Cultures and their Time Frames along the Coastlands of Oman Vincent Charpentier -- Window 4 Sea Mammals and Humans along the Shores of the Oman Peninsula Vincent Charpentier & Sophie Méry -- Chapter 4 The Great Transformation |
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Window 5 The Middle Holocene Fishermen Settlement of Ras Al-Khabbah KHB-1 in the Ja'alan region Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi -- Window 6 The Prehistoric Graveyard RH-5 at Ras Al-Hamra Sandro Salvatori -- Window 7 Funerary Practices at Ras Al-Hamra RH-5New Data from 2005/2009 Excavations Olivia Munoz -- Window 8 Shell Midden Economy in the Fourth millennium BC Margarethe Uerpmann & Hans-Peter Uerpmann -- Window 9 Marine Turtles from the Habitation Areaand Graveyard of Ras Al-Hamra RH-5 Massimo Delfino & Jack Frazier |
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Window 10 Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Occupationsat Ras Al-Hadd HD-5, Sultanate of OmanFederico Borgi & Elena Maini -- Window 11 Bead Production in the Late NeolithicCommunities of Coastal Oman Marilisa Buta, Dennys Frenez, E. Bortolini, V. Charpentier & J.M. Kenoyer -- Window 12 Jabal Al-Aluya. An Inland Neolithic Settlement Marion Lemée & Guillaume Gernez -- Window 13 The Beginning of a New Era in the Ja'alan The Hafit Settlement HD-6 at Ras Al-HaddValentina M. Azzarà & Maurizio Cattani -- Window 14 The Early Metallurgy of the Oman Peninsula Claudio Giardino |
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Window 15 Analysis of Stone and Metal Artifacts from HD-6,HD-10 and HD-1, Ras Al-Hadd, Sultanate of OmanRandall W. Law -- Window 16 The Earliest Camel Remains of Oman fromthe Hafit Settlement of Ras Al-Hadd HD-6 Antonio Curci & Michela Carletti -- Chapter 5 A Greater Society Emerges Under the Eyes of the Ancestors -- Window 17 Tomb 1 at Ras Al-Jinz RJ-1 and Associated Bone Pits Hervé Guy & Olivia Munoz -- Window 18 Zukayt and the Burial Fields of Wadi Halfayin Eugenio Bortolini -- Chapter 6 Taming the Desert with Oases and Herds |
| Summary |
This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original eleven chapters are expanded and enhanced in this new edition by a number of new 'windows', written by a new generation of scholars, in order to include more recent research and interpretations |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Window 19 Animal Economy in an Early Oasis Settlement Margarethe Uerpmann & Hans-Peter Uerpmann |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Oman
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Oman
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Oman
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tosi, Maurizio
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Frenez, Dennys
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Garba, Roman
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| ISBN |
9781789697896 |
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1789697891 |
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