Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman / / Conrad Schmidt [and seven others].

• Superior document: Arabia orientalis ; Band 5
• VerfasserIn: Schmidt, Conrad,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: German
• Series: Arabia orientalis ; Bd. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 426 pages) :; illustrations.

Die Entstehung komplexer Siedlungen im Zentraloman: Archaologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah presents the results of a survey conducted in 2015 and beyond by the Institut fur die Kulturen des Alten Orients of the Universitat Tubingen in Al-Khashbah, one of the largest Early Bronze Age sites on the Omani Peninsula. Ten monumental buildings, 273 tombs and other structures from the Hafit (3100-2700 BC) and Umm an-Nar periods (2700-2000 BC) were documented here. This makes Al-Khashbah ideally suited for the investigation of the beginnings of complex settlements and social structures in northern Inner Oman at the transition from the 4th to the 3rd millennium BC, because many of the achievements previously attributed to the Umm an-Nar period, such as monumental architecture and the smelting of copper, can already be proven here in the preceding Hafit period. In the Umm an-Nar period, the development of Al-Khashbah continues steadily, giving the site additional importance. According to the results of the survey, however, copper production at the site no longer seems to play a role in this period. From the epochs of the 2nd and 1st millennium BC as well as the 1st and 2nd millennium AD, which followed the Early Bronze Age, there are extremely few findings in Al-Khashbah. It was not until the 18th-20th centuries AD that the site experienced an intensive revival, as evidenced in particular by the old mud-brick settlement in the north of the palm oasis, a small settlement in the east of the study area, a number of irrigation systems, several cemeteries, petroglyphs and numerous Late Islamic pottery sherds found on the surface.

Table of Contents

Vorwort -- 1. Einleitung / Conrad Schmidt -- 2. Der Fundort Al-Khashbah Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper -- 3. Methodik / Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper -- 4. Die Vermessungsarbeiten und der Luftbildsurvey / Matthias Lang & Philippe Kluge -- 5. Die geophysikalische Prospektion / Marion Scheiblecker, Jason T. Herrmann & Jörg W. E. Faßbinder -- 6. Die Türme / Jonas Kluge -- 7. Die Gräber / Conrad Schmidt & Mona Walter -- 8. Mauern, Trilithe, Lehmziegelgebaüde und andere Strukturen / Conrad Schmidt -- 9. Die Keramik / Stephanie Döpper, Susanne Maier & Nick Kirchoff 10. Die Steingefäße / Stephanie Döpper -- 11. Die Steingeräte aus Flint / Ullrich Ochs -- 12. Die Schmuckobjekte / Stephanie Döpper -- 13. Die Metallobjekte / Conrad Schmidt -- 14. Schlacke, Ofen- und Tiegelfragmente sowie andere Rückstände der Metallverarbeitung / Conrad Schmidt -- 15. Mollusken und Tierknoche / Conrad Schmidt -- 16. Die Großsteingeräte / Stephanie Döpper -- 17. Die Petroglyphen von Gebäude IV / Samantha Petrella -- 18. Die Siedlungsgeschichte von Al-Khashbah / Conrad Schmid -- Bibliographie