Southeast Arabia at the Dawn of the Second Millennium

Derek Kennet is Howard E. Hallengren Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf States Archaeology at the University of Chicago. He has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Arabia for over 30 years, having worked in Kuwait, the UAE and Oman. He completed a PhD on the archaeology of Ras al-Khaimah at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2001.Alyson Caine is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Merced. She has conducted osteological fieldwork for over eight years and worked in Arabia for the past decade. She completed her Master’s in Paleopathology at Durham University in 2014.Anna Hilton has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Arabia for 15 years, having worked in Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan and Egypt. She completed a Master’s on the soft stone vessels and archaeology of Failaka (Kuwait) at the University of Copenhagen in 2011.Lloyd Weeks is a professor in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and History at the University of New England, Australia. He completed a PhD on the archaeology of early metal production and exchange in the Persian Gulf region at Sydney University, Australia. His field research focuses on Western Asia, including excavations in the UAE and Iran.

• List of figures1. IntroductionDerek Kennet2. The Site of Qarn al-Harf: geography, environment and previous workDerek Kennet with Phil Macumber3. The Excavations IntroductionDerek KennetThe Qarn al-Harf 1 complex (QAH1)Derek Kennet and Anne E. MortimerThe Qarn al-Harf 2 complex (QAH2)Derek Kennet and Anne E. MortimerThe Qarn al-Harf 5 complex (QAH5)Derek Kennet and Sarah RitchieThe Qarn al-Harf 6 complex (QAH6)Derek Kennet and Anne E. Mortimer4. Excavations at Qarn al-Harf 67Derek Kennet5. The BeadsAnna Hilton6. The Small FindsAnna Hilton7. Soft-stone vesselsAnna Hilton8. Metal artefacts and archaeometallurgical analysesLloyd Weeks, Eddy Faber, Dana Goodburn-Brown, Jian-xin Zhao, Ai Duc Nguyen, and Yuexing Feng9. PalaeopathologyAlyson Caine and Charlotte Roberts10. Isotope analysis from human remainsJanet Montgomery, Mandy Jay, Alyson Caine, and Geoff Nowel11. The Marine molluscsHannah Russ12. The Faunal assemblageCameron Clegg13. Conservation of the Qarn al-Harf FindsDana Goodburn-Brown14. The Phasing and development of the site and its surrounding Area Derek Kennet with a contribution by Michel de Vreeze and an appendix by Andrew Millard15. The Wadi Suq Cemeteries of Northern Ras al-KhaimahDerek Kennet and Christian Velde16. Qarn al-Harf and the transition from the Umm al-Nar to the Wadi Suq period in Northern Ras al-Khaimah and Southeast ArabiaDerek Kennet with Michel de Vreeze and Hélène David-CunyReferences

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