Dosariyah : reinvestigating a Neolithic coastal community in eastern Arabia / edited by Philipp Drechsler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Drechsler, Philipp, editor.

Series:

British Foundation for the Study of Arabia monographs ; no. 19.

British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs ; no. 19

Language:

Arabic

English

German

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Neolithic period.

Saudi Arabia--Sharqīyah (Province).

Saudi Arabia.

Sharqīyah (Province).

Neolithic period--Saudi Arabia--Sharqīyah (Province).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Saudi Arabia--Sharqīyah (Province).

Physical Description:

xii, 498 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, charts ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, [2018]

Language Note:

In English with abstracts in English, German, and Arabic.

Summary:

"Dosariyah: Reinvestigating a Neolithic coastal community in eastern Arabia describes the work carried out at Dosariyah, located in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, which took place between 2010 and 2014. It was conducted by the joint German-Saudi Dosariya Archaeological Research Project (DARP). A wealth of material remains was found during excavations within almost three metres of anthropogenic deposits. Radiocarbon dates and comparative studies of artefacts securely date the occupation of the site into the first centuries of the fifth millennium BC. The co-occurrence of locally produced artefacts that are technologically and typologically rooted in the local Arabian Middle Neolithic, and imports from southern Mesopotamia is characteristic of Dosariyah. However, the mechanisms behind the distribution of foreign materials along the Arabian Gulf coast, in particular, are still poorly understood. It is the central proposition of this book that the local societies living along the shores of the Arabian Gulf coast played an active role in the acquisition of Ubaid pottery and other objects originating in souther Mesopotamia. A predominance of imported objects, cosidered as 'exotic items', are understood as integral components of rituals that were part of temporary gatherings of larger groups of people at Dosariyah. Based on the material evidence from the site, such collective social events were embedded in everyday life during the fifth millennium BC"--Back cover.

Contents:

The site and its context / Philipp Drechsler

Geomorphology, geoarcheology and paleoenvironments / Adrian G. Parker, Simon J. Armitage, Max Engel, Mike W. Morley, Ash Parton, Gareth W. Preston and Hannah Russ

Defining the archeological setting: the Dosariyah survey / Shumon T. Hussain and Felix Levenson

Geophysical survey / Martin Posselt

Archeological surface collections and excavations / Philipp Drechsler

Dating Dosariyah / Philipp Drechsler

The pottery / Christine Kainert

Geochemical analysis of putative local and Ubaid ceramics from Dosariyah / Peter Magee and Steven Karacic

Reworked pottery / Christine Kainert and Philipp Drechsler

Fire clay objects / Christine Kainert

Lithic industry / Philipp Drechsler

Variability of arrowhead shapes / Philipp Drechsler

Hematite objects and the use of red pigments / Philipp Drechsler, Christoph Berthold and Christine Kainert

Bone industry / Philipp Drechsler

Personal adornment / Philipp Drechsler

Bitumen objects / Philipp Drechsler

Chemical composition of bitumen / Thomas Van de Velde

Plaster morphology / Philipp Drechsler

Morphological and geochemical analysis of plater samples / Susan M. Mentzer, Markus Seil, Hilmar Adler, Thomas Chassé, Bertrand Ligouis, Christoph Berthold and Christopher E. Miller

Faunal remains and subsistence strategies / Margarethe Uerpmann and Hans-Peter Uerpmann

Isotopic analyses of cattle teeth / Corina Knipper and Michael Maus

Archeomalacology of Dosariyah: diversity, taphonomy and distribution of gastropods and bivalves / James H. Nebelsick, Philipp Drechsler and Paolo G. Albano

Exploitation of the marine snail Hexaplex kuesterianus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-498).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1784919624

9781784919627

OCLC:

1046468776

Publisher Number:

99980201132

60002274526