Archaeopress Archaeology Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019: Papers from the fifty-second meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 3 to 5 August 2018

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First convened in 1968, it is the only annual academic event for the study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The Seminar meets for three days each year, with an ever-increasing number of participants coming from around the globe to attend. In 2018 the fifty-second meeting took place, in which fifty-seven papers and posters were presented in London at the British Museum, where this prestigious event has been hosted since 2002. Volume 49 Contents: In memoriam Paolo M. Costa, 1932-2019; A documentation of Old Jiddah's Ottoman arbitah: selected case studies (poster) - by Hidaya M. Abbas; Initial results of a research programme on Iron Age II pottery production in the al Hajar mountains: compositional analyses of pottery vessels used in a domestic context, in a reception building and in a ritual area at Masafi (Fujairah, UAE) - by Anne Benoist, Sophie Mery, Steven Karacic, Mael Crepy, Louise Purdue & Sophie Costa; An overview of the latest prehistoric research in Qumayrah Valley, Sultanate of Oman (poster) - by Marcin Bialowarczuk & Agnieszka Szymczak; Pottery from al-Zubarah, Qatar: reference collection and ware typology - by Agnieszka Magdalena Bystron; Production and provenance of Gulf wares unearthed in the Old Doha Rescue Excavations Project - by Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Marcella Giobbe, Elizabeth Adeyemo, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Robert Carter, Ferhan Sakal, Alice Bianchi & Faisal Al-Na'imi; Sultanate of Oman (seasons 2016-2018): insights on cultural interaction and long-distance trade - by Maurizio Cattani, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Dennys Frenez, Randall W. Law & Sophie Mery; Al-Khutm Project 2017/2018: a Bronze Age monumental tower (Bat, Oman) - by Enzo Cocca, Giacomo Vinci, Maurizio Cattani, Alessandro Armigliato, Antonio Di Michele, Marco Bianchi & Ilenia Gennuso; The Late Iron Age of central Oman (c.300 BC-AD 300) - new insights from Salut - by Michele Degli Esposti, Enrica Tagliamonte, Marzia Sasso & Philip Ramorino; The Bronze Age cultural landscape of Wadi al-Zahaimi - by Bleda S. During, Samatar A. Botan, Eric Olijdam & Jordy H.J.M. Aal; New project on Islamic ceramics from al-Balid: chronology, technology, tradition, and provenance - by Agnese Fusaro; Triliths, the stone monuments of southern Arabia: preliminary results and a path towards interpretation - by Roman Garba; The gendered household: making space for women in the study of Islamic archaeology in Qatar (poster) - by Elizabeth R. Hicks; The Palaeolithic of the northern Red Sea - new investigations in Tabuk and Al-Jawf provinces, Saudi Arabia - by Robyn H. Inglis, Anthony Sinclair, Abdullah Alsharekh, Christopher Scott & Dhaifullah Al Otaibi; Variation in the Dadanitic inscriptions: the case of RDY - by Fokelien Kootstra; Modern South Arabian material from the diaries of Eduard Glaser - by Anton Kungl; The necropolis of Thaj (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia): an archaeological and anthropological approach (poster) - by Marie Laguardia, Olivia Munoz & Jerome Rohmer; `The numerous islands of Ichthyophagi': Neolithic fisheries of Delma Island, Abu Dhabi Emirate (UAE) - by Kevin Lidour & Mark Jonathan Beech; Neolithic settlement pattern and environment evolution along the coast of the northern UAE: the case of Umm al-Quwain UAQ36 vs. UAQ2 and Akab shell-middens - by Sophie Mery, Miche