Connected Hinterlands: Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV: Held at the University of Southampton September 2008 9781407306315, 9781407335827

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Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 8 Series editors D. Kennet & St J. Simpson

Connected Hinterlands Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV Held at the University of Southampton September 2008

Edited by

Lucy Blue John Cooper Ross Thomas Julian Whitewright

BAR International Series 2052 2009

ISBN 9781407306315 paperback ISBN 9781407335827 e-format DOI https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407306315 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Society for Arabian Studies Monograph Series Series editors: D. Kennet & St J. Simpson

The Society for Arabian Studies Monograph Series was launched in 2004 with the intention of encouraging the publication of peer-reviewed monographs on the archaeology, early history, ethnography, epigraphy and numismatics of the Arabian Peninsula and related matters. Creating a specific monograph series within the British Archaeological Reports International Series is intended to allow libraries, institutions and individuals to keep abreast of work that is specifically related to their areas of research. Whilst research and conference volumes in the series will all be peerreviewed according to normal academic procedures, the decision was taken to allow the publication of doctoral theses, field reports, catalogues and other data-rich work without peer review where this will permit the publication of information that, for one reason or another, might not otherwise be made available. Already published: BAR –S1248, 2004 Sasanian and Islamic Pottery from Ras al-Khaimah Classification, chronology and analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean by Derek Kennet with a contribution by Regina Krahl. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 1. ISBN 1 84171 608 1. BAR –S1269, 2004 Trade and Travel in the Red Sea Region Proceedings of Red Sea Project I held in the British Museum October 2002 edited by Paul Lunde and Alexandra Porter. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 2. ISBN 1 84171 622 7. BAR –S1395, 2005 People of the Red Sea Proceedings of Red Sea Project II held in the British Museum October 2004 edited by Janet C.M. Starkey. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 3. ISBN 1 84171 833 5. BAR –S1456, 2005 The Tihamah Coastal Plain of South-West Arabia in its Regional Context c. 6000 BC – AD 600 by Nadia Durrani. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 4. ISBN 1 84171 894 7. BAR –S1661, 2007 Natural Resources and Cultural Connections of the Red Sea Proceedings of Red Sea Project III held in the British Museum October 2006 edited by Janet Starkey, Paul Starkey and Tony Wilkinson. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 5. ISBN 9781407300979 BAR –S1776, 2008 La Péninsule d’Oman de la fin de l’Age du Fer au début de la période sassanide (250 av. – 350 ap. JC) by Michel Mouton. Society for Arabian Studies Monographs No. 6. ISBN 978 1 4073 0264 5 BAR –S1826, 2008 Intercultural Relations between South and Southwest Asia Studies in commemoration of E.C.L. During Caspers (1934-1996) edited by Eric Olijdam and Richard H. Spoor. Society for Arabian Studies Monograph No. 7. ISBN 978 1 4073 0312 3 Potential contributors Please contact the editors in the first instance: Dr Derek Kennet: Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, England DH1 3LE [email protected] Dr St John Simpson: Department of the Middle East, The British Museum, London, England WC1B 3DG [email protected]

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