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Published Date : 2022
Auther : Jorge Angas / Manuel Bea / Sabah Abboud Jasim / Paula Uribe / Mercedes Farjas
Publisher : Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 39
Available Languages -
English

This paper is an approach to the study and documentation of a quite large group of rock art boulders at Khatm al Melaha (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates). More than 150 decorated stone blocks, with almost 400 motifs, have been identified on a hill close to the Arabian Sea coast, highlighting its importance as a control point for communicating the coast and the hinterland. Although a domestic human occupation of the area has not yet been documented, the symbolic significance of this place is reinforced not only by rock art but also by the presence of several dry-stone tombs. Despite the limited studied area, our contribution outlines a preliminary approach to a previously very little studied territory, providing a local chrono-stylistic proposal for those figurative (humans, animals) and non-figurative (signs) engravings attending to different stylistic conventions, techniques, subject matters and varnish colour. Different digital documentation techniques (digital tracings, terrestrial and aerial photogrammetry, web mapping) have been applied in order to create an updated and accurate data corpus allowing future analysis. The ongoing research will try to find new evidence of symbolic occupation of the territory in relation to human settlements and their relationship within a wider landscape.



The environmental context of Paleolithic settlement at Jebel Faya, Emirate Sharjah, UAE

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Auther : Knut Bretzke / Simon J. Armitage / Adrian G. Parker / Helen Walkington / Hans-Peter Uerpmann
Publisher : Quaternary International 300
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English

Key to the understanding of Pleistocene human dispersals and settlement dynamics is knowledge about the ...

Rhodian Amphora Trade in Arabia

Published Date : 2018
Auther : Bruno Overlaet - Patrick Monsieur - Sabah Jasim - Eisa Yousif
Publisher : Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
Available Languages -
English

This article discusses the role of Rhodian amphorae in the wine trade between Rhodes and ...