Human interaction with the environment in the Red Sea : selected papers of Red Sea Project VI / / edited by Dionisius A. Agius, Emad Khalil, Eleanor M.L. Scerri and Alun Williams.

• Author: Red Sea Project (Conference) Tabūk, Saudi Arabia)
• TeilnehmendeR: Agius, Dionisius A.; Khalil, Emad.; Scerri, Eleanor.; Williams, Alun
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 pages) :; illustrations, maps, tables
• Notes: "This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013."

This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region. It stimulates a new discourse on different human adaptations to, and interactions with, the environment. With contributions by Andre Antunes, K. Christopher Beard, Ahmed Hussein, Emad Khalil, Solène Marion de Procé, Abdirachid Mohamed, Ania Kotarba-Morley, Sandra Olsen, Andrew Peacock, Eleanor Scerri, Pierre Schneider, Marijke Van Der Veen and Chiara Zazzaro.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Dionisius A. Agius , Emad Khalil , Eleanor M.L. Scerri and Alun Williams -- ‘On the Red Sea the Trees are of a Remarkable Nature’ (Pliny the Elder): The Red Sea Mangroves from the Greco-Roman Perspective / Pierre Schneider -- Extreme Red Sea: Life in the Deep-Sea Anoxic Brine Lakes / André Antunes -- Biogeographic Provincialism Shown by Afro-Arabian Mammals during the Middle Cenozoic: Climate Change, Red Sea Rifting and Global Eustasy / K. Christopher Beard , Pauline M.C. Coster , Mustafa J. Salem , Yaowalak Chaimanee and Jean-Jacques Jaeger -- Bridges and Barriers: The Late Pleistocene Demography of the Saharo-Arabian Belt / Eleanor M.L. Scerri -- Weighing the Evidence for Ancient Afro-Arabian Cultural Connections through Neolithic Rock Art / Sandra L. Olsen -- The Farasān Archipelago in the Red Sea Context during Antiquity / Solène Marion de Procé -- Adulis and the Sea / Chiara Zazzaro -- The Maritime Context of the Trans-Mediterranean—Indian Ocean Trade: Critical Review of Roman Era Vessels of the Red Sea / Anna M. Kotarba-Morley -- The Historic Towns of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Coast: Tourism Development and Conservation / Aylin Orbaşlı -- The Geographical Nature of the Red Sea Area and Its Impact on the Material Culture / Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam -- Food Globalisation and the Red Sea: New Evidence from the Ancient Ports at Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt / Marijke van der Veen and Jacob Morales -- Jeddah and the India Trade in the Sixteenth Century: Arabian Contexts and Imperial Policy / Andrew Peacock -- Ancient Cultural Contact between the Somali Coast and the Arabian Peninsula Seen through a Folktale / Abdirachid Mohamed Ismail -- The Potentials of Maritime Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Emad Khalil -- Bibliography -- Index.