Bahrain through the ages : the archaeology /: the archaeology. ([2012?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shaikha Haya Ali Al Khalifa and Michael Rice.
• Editors: Khalifa, Haya Ali; Rice, Michael, 1928-2013
• Other Names: Bahrain Historical Conference
• Contents: Introduction / Tariq Almoayed -- Shoreline changes in Bahrain since the beginning of human occupation / Paul Sanlaville and Roland Paskoff -- Variation in holocene land use patterns on the Bahrain Islands : construction of a land use model / Curtis Larsen -- The human biological history of the Early Bronze Age population in Bahrain / Bruno Frohlich -- Dental anthropological investigations on Bahrain / Karen HØjgaard -- India and Bahrain : a survey of culture interaction during the third and second millennia / Jagat Pati Joshi -- The prehistory of the Gulf : recent finds / Jacques Tixier -- The Gulf in prehistory / Joan Oates -- Some aspects of Neolithic settlement in Bahrain and adjacent regions / Beatrice de Cardi -- Early maritime cultures of the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean / Maurizio Tosi -- The origins of the Dilmun civilization / Geoffrey Bibby -- 'The island on the edge of the world' / Michael Rice -- Burial mounds near Ali excavated by the Danish expedition / Karen Frifelt -- Dilmun : a trading entrepot : evidence from historical and archaeological sources / Gerd Weisgerber -- Dilmun and Makkan during the third and early second millennia B.C. / Serge Cleuziou -- Death in Dilmun / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The Barbar Temple : stratigraphy, architecture and interpretation / H.H. Andersen -- The Barbar Temple : its chronology and foreign relations reconsidered / Peder Mortensen -- The Barbar Temple : the masonry / Brian Doe -- 'The land of Dilmun is holy. ' / Geoffrey Bibby -- Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf during the second millennium B.C. : urban crisis and colonialism / Flemming HØjlund -- Iron Age Dilmun : a reconsideration of City IV at Qal'at al-Bahrain / Pierre Lombard MAR-TU and the land of Dilmun / Juris Zarins -- The shell seals of Bahrain / Haya al Khalifa -- Susa and the Dilmun culture / Pierre Amiet -- The Dilmun seals as evidence of long distance relations in the early second millennium B.C. / Poul Kjaerum -- Indus and Gulf type seals from Ur / T.C. Mitchell -- Animal designs and Gulf chronology / Elisabeth C.L. During Caspers -- Eyestones and pearls / Theresa Howard-Carter -- The Tarut statue as a peripheral contribution to the knowledge of early Mesopotamian plastic art / Fiorella Ippolitoni-Strika -- Commerce and conquest : variations in the Mesopotamia-Dilmun relationship / Julian Reade -- The occurrence of Dilmun in the oldest texts of Mesopotamia / Hans J. Nissen -- The deities of Dilmun / Khaled al Nashef -- The lands of Dilmun : changing cultural and economic relations during the third to early second millennia B.C. / Philip L. Kohl -- Trade and cultural contacts between Bahrain and India in the third and second millennia B.C. / S.R. Rao -- Bahrain and the Indus civilisation / A.H. Dani -- Dilmun's further realtions : the Syro-Anatolian evidence from the third and second millennia B.C. / Daniel Potts -- Tylos and Tyre : Bahrain in the Graeco-Roman world / G.W. Bowersock -- A three generations' matrilineal genealogy in a Hasaean inscription : matrilineal ancestry in pre-Islamic Arabia / Jacques Ryckmans -- Bahrain and its position in an eco-cultural classification-concept of the Gulf : some theoretical aspects of eco-cultural zones / Walter Dostal -- Dilmun and the late Assyrian Empire / David Oates -- Some notes about Qalat al-Bahrain : a strategic position from the Hellenistic period until modern times / Monik Kervran -- The Janussan necropolis and late first millennium B.C. burial customs in Bahrain / Jean-Francois Salles -- Qalat al-Bahrain : a strategic position from the Hellenistic period until modern times / Monik Kervran -- The presentation and conservation of archaeological sites in Bahrain / Bernard M. Feilden -- The Barbar Temple site in Bahrain : conservation and presentation / Brian Doe -- The traditional architecture of Bahrain / Ronald Lewcock.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 1986
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
• Subjects: 953.65; Antiquities; Bahrain -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Bahrain -- History -- Congresses; Bahrain; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136141782; 1136141782
• Related ISBNs: 9780710301123; 071030112X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.