• Marta LUCIANI (Ed.)

The Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula 2

Connecting the Evidence. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna on April 25, 2016

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Marta LUCIANI
is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna


The volume presents the proceedings of the second international workshop on the Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula. Its subtitle, 'Connecting the evidence', portrayed our striving for investigating relationships and connections between different regions, materials and themes of research. The nine contributions straddle the entire expanse of the Peninsula and beyond, in order to counter the present divide in different academic disciplines. The chronological focus spans from the Pre Pottery Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages down to the Islamic Middle Ages. The analyzed themes range from funerary to cultic landscapes, oasis formation and role of metallurgy for desert dwellers in state-of-the-art interdisciplinary perspectives and field case studies.

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Der Band enthält die Ergebnisse des zweiten internationalen Workshops zur Archäologie der Arabischen Halbinsel. Der Untertitel "Connecting the evidence" verdeutlicht unser Bestreben, Beziehungen und Verbindungen zwischen verschiedenen Regionen, Materialien und Forschungsthemen zu untersuchen. Die neun Beiträge erstrecken sich über die gesamte Halbinsel und darüber hinaus, um der gegenwärtigen Kluft zwischen den verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen entgegenzuwirken. Der chronologische Schwerpunkt reicht vom vorkeramischen Neolithikum über die Bronze- und Eisenzeit bis hin zum islamischen Mittelalter. Die untersuchten Themen reichen von Grab- und Kultlandschaften über die Entstehung von Oasen bis hin zur Rolle der Metallurgie für die Wüstenbewohner in modernen interdisziplinären Perspektiven und Fallstudien.

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The Bronze and Iron Age Funerary Landscape in Central Arabia

    Anaïs Chevalier, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Stéfan Tzortzis, Élodie Wermuth

The Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula 2, pp. 119-148, 2021/12/20

Connecting the Evidence. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna on April 25, 2016

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Abstract

Bronze and Iron Age tombs are a critical element in the archaeological landscape of the central Arabian oasisof al-Kharj. The Saudi-French Archaeological Mission in al-Kharj identified 17 necropolises on the ground, two of themcomprising several hundred tombs. In the major necropolis at ‘Ayn al-Ḍila‘, 13 graves were excavated in 2013 and 2016,yielding data on the funerary practices and shedding light on chronological issues. This field approach was completed byremote-sensing analysis of the oasis of al-Kharj which led to the geolocation of c. 6000 tumuli. Spatial analysis of thesegraves shows a distribution strongly dictated by proximity to building material and water sources as much as by land marking.The close proximity of the two main necropolises to palaeolakes raises the issue of the long-lasting activity of thesehydrological features in the area up to the early Bronze Age, questioning the duration of the mid-Holocene humid phasein central Arabia. All in all, remote sensing and fieldwork provide us with an insight into the way of life, appropriation ofland, and resources as well as the funerary practices of semi-mobile protohistoric populations.

Keywords: al-Kharj; Saudi Arabia; Bronze Age; funerary practices; landscape archaeology; spatial analysis