Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Environmental Setting -- Chapter 2 Human occupation at Qurum -- Chapter 3 Shell Middens and Ras Al-Hamra -- Chapter 4 Stratigraphy and Chronology -- Chapter 5 Settlement Structures -- Chapter 6 Activities -- Chapter 7 Material Culture -- Chapter 8 Mobility -- Chapter 9 Society -- Chapter 10 Demography -- Chapter 11 Comparisons -- Chapter 12 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Social Media
Summary
Reports on excavations at the prehistoric site Ras Al-Hamra RH-5, located in the Qurum area of Muscat. The site dates from the late 5th to the end of the 4th millennia BC and comprises an accumulation of superimposed food discards deriving from continuous and repeated subsistence activities such as fishing, collecting shells, hunting and herding