The Early Iron Age collective tomb LCG-1 at Dibba al-Bayah, Oman: long-distance exchange and cross-cultural interaction

The Iron Age (c. 1300-600 BC) of South-eastern Arabia is characterised by rapid expansion of settlement. Social structures formed over the previous millennia, however, persisted and were reinforced through the development of collective funerary monuments. A recently discovered tomb of Late Bronze to Early Iron Age date at Dibba al-Bayah in the Sultanate of Oman has yielded a range of artefacts that illuminate the nature and extent of the long-distance contacts of the local community. Seemingly selected not only for their exotic appeal, but also for their apotropaic function, these objects testify to a deep cross-cultural knowledge extending across the wider region during this crucial period in Arabian prehistory

Harappan Chimaeras as 'Symbolic Hypertexts'. Some Thoughts on Plato, Chimaera and the Indus Civilization

Evolution, chronology, semantic implications of a composite monster, a peculiar iconography of the Indus civilization

Ras al-Hadd HD-1. L\u2019Approdo delle Grandi Civilt\ue0 del Terzo millennio | Ras al-Hadd HD-1. The Harbor of the Great Civilizations of the Third millennium

Rinvenuto nell\u2019ambito del \u201cJoint Hadd Project\u201d nel 1986, il complesso archeologico di HD-1 a Ras al-Hadd si segnala per la presenza di un gran quantit\ue0 di ceramica della Civilt\ue0 dell\u2019Indo (seconda met\ue0 del terzo millennio a.C.) e costituisce un eccezionale contesto per comprendere le interazioni tra la Penisola Araba e la Valle dell\u2019Indo nel pi\uf9 ampio quadro degli scambi tra la Mesopotamia e il Subcontinente Indo-Pakistano.HD-1 represents an exceptional context for understanding the interactions occurred between the Arabian Peninsula and in Indus Valley in the larger picture of the exchanges between Mesopotamia and the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent. Twenty years after the first explorations conducted by the British Museum, the current research started in 2016 aims at implementing an updated palaeobiological sampling and a detail analytical study of the production activities

Sognatori. 40 anni di ricerche archeologiche italiane in Oman-Dreamers. 40 years of italian archaeological research in Oman

Volume dedicato ai quarant\u2019anni delle ricerche archeologiche italiane nel Sultanato dell\u2019Oman, per ricordare che il primo intervento dei ricercatori dell\u2019Istituto Italiano per il Medio e l\u2019Estremo Oriente (IsMEO) nell\u2019archeologia del Sultanato avvenne a met\ue0 degli anni Settanta del secolo scorso, sotto la direzione del compianto Prof. Maurizio Tosi. Il volume \ue8 dedicato a riconoscere il prestigio per l\u2019Italia dell\u2019enorme impegno e delle straordinarie competenze delle istituzioni e dei ricercatori italiani nello studio dell\u2019antichit\ue0 in Oman. Nel corso di oltre quaranta anni di impegno, attraverso missioni sostenute da Universit\ue0, Centri di Ricerca e Amministrazioni pubbliche italiane e dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, centinaia di studiosi e ricercatori Italiani hanno collaborato con le autorit\ue0 omanite per portare alla luce e conservare l\u2019affascinante patrimonio materiale che testimonia l\u2019evoluzione sociale e culturale unica di questa regione dell\u2019Arabia fin dall\u2019alba della civilt\ue0 umana.Volume dedicated to forty years of Italian archaeological research in the Sultanate of Oman, to emphasize that the first intervention of researchers of the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (IsMEO) in the archaeology of the Sultanate took place in mid-Seventies of the last century, under the direction of the late Prof. Maurizio Tosi. The volume is devoted to create the opportunity to acknowledge the prestige for Italy of the enormous commitment and extraordinary expertise of Italian institutions and researchers in the study of antiquities in Oman. Over more than forty years of commitment, through missions supported by Italian Universities, Research Centers and Governmental bodies, first of all the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, hundreds of Italian scholars and researchers have collaborated with the Omani authorities to bring to light and preserve the fascinating cultural heritage that testifies to the unique social and cultural evolution of this region of Arabia since the dawn of human civilization

The Lothal Sealings: records from an Indus Civilization town at the eastern end of the maritime trade limits across the Arabian Sea.

The paper provides the first detailed typology and functional study of the approximately one hundred terracotta sealings discovered at the Harappa site of Lothal (Gujarat, India). The study is based on the physical reexamination of the sealings and on new high resolution digital photographs taken by the authors, who analyzed in great detail the traces left by the containers on the back of the sealings. This approach allowed outlining similarities and differences with contemporary sealing systems used in Mesopotamia and the Near East, and discussing the role played by Lothal in the commercial networks across the Arabian Sea

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Indus potters in central Oman in the second half of the third millennium BC. First results of a technological and archaeometric study

International audienceThe nature of cultural interactions between the Indus Civilization and Magan is explored in this paper. The presence of Indus potters in eastern Arabia can now be demonstrated based on a combined technological and petrographical study of a range of pottery types found at the site of Salūt ST1 (Sultanate of Oman). Similar discoveries from other Umm an-Nar sites in the Sultanate of Oman and the UAE supports the hypothesis that Indus communities were living alongside the Magan people at Umm an-Nar sites more extensively than previously thought

Indus potters in central Oman in the second half of the third millennium BC. First results of a technological and archaeometric study

International audienceThe nature of cultural interactions between the Indus Civilization and Magan is explored in this paper. The presence of Indus potters in eastern Arabia can now be demonstrated based on a combined technological and petrographical study of a range of pottery types found at the site of Salūt ST1 (Sultanate of Oman). Similar discoveries from other Umm an-Nar sites in the Sultanate of Oman and the UAE supports the hypothesis that Indus communities were living alongside the Magan people at Umm an-Nar sites more extensively than previously thought

Bead Production in the Late Neolithic Communities of Coastal Oman

The development and elaboration of softstone and marine shell bead production is one of the major questions that need to be addressed in the ongoing research of early human coastal adaptations in the Oman Peninsula. This research aimed first at testing the archaeological significance of beads as an indicator of cultural variability among the Late Neolithic coastal communities of Oman based on a series of specific stylistic, technological and morphometric features. Around 600 softstone and marine shell beads were documented from eight Late Neolithic sites located along the coast of the Sultanate of Oman, including both settlements and necropolises. From North to South the sites are, Ras Al-Hamra RH- 5, RH-6 and RH-10 in Muscat; Wadi Shab GAS-1 near Tiwi; Ras Al-Hadd HD-5, Ras Al-Khabbah KHB-1 and Suwayh SWY-1 and SWY-2 along the Ja\u2019alan coas