First data on the protohistoric funerary practices in the region of Khaybar (Saudi Arabia)

The landscape of the Arabian Peninsula is spotted by hundreds of thousands of dry-stone megalithic funerary structures. Our study region in northwestern Saudi Arabia, near the modern city of Khaybar, and covering 56 sq. km, has yielded more than 14,000 of them. Despite there huge number and density, the lack of excavations in the region refrains from understanding their refined chronology and funerary practices. Through our research started with the Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Projec..

Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy. Proceedings of the 27th SEAC conference held together with the EAA

Proceedings of the 27th SEAC conference held together with the EAA.-- Editors: A. César González-García, Roslyn M. Frank, Lionel D. Sims, Michael A. Rappenglück, Georg Zotti, Juan A. Belmonte, Ivan Šprajc.Cultural Astronomy is the endeavour to understand the role of the sky in past and present societies, and how these societies incorporated the sky into their culture. This broad ranging discipline is closely related to archaeology when investigating material remains of the past. Cultural Astronomy also explores the role of the heavens from the perspectives of the anthropological sciences. In recent decades the discipline has been concerned with methodological and theoretical issues. This volume offers chapters based on presentations at the 27th SEAC meeting held in Bern (2019). These chapters provide a vivid image of front-line research in diverse areas, from Roman light and shadow effects to highlight power, to Maya city organization, Etruscan temple orientation or the ontology of the sky.Peer reviewe

Khaybar, a land of complex legacies from prehistory to modern time

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The Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project. Objectives and First Results

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The Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project (2020-2024)

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The Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project: Seasons 7 & 8 (Fall 2023 & Winter 2024) and main results of the eight field seasons (2020-2024)

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The Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project: Results from Seasons 5 and 6 (2022-2023)

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The Khaybar Longue Durée Project. Objectives and first results

International audienceThe Khaybar oasis is a hotbed of local history in northwest Saudi Arabia. It has been preserved for millennia, and its human occupation seems to have been uninterrupted from earliest prehistoric times to the present day. The new Khaybar archaeological survey and excavation project (Khaybar from Prehistory to Modern Times - Archaeological reconstruction of an oasis over the longue durée [2020-2024]), supported by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) and the French Agency for the Development of AlUla (AFALULA), began in October 2020 and will last until the end of 2024.This session at the Seminar for Arabian Studies is the first-ever opportunity to present the archaeology of this major oasis in the Arabian Peninsula. This lecture aims to introduce the objectives and methods of our project and to bring to light some preliminary results of our field survey inside the RCU oasis core zone at Khaybar. Furthermore, we will highlight major advances on prehistoric occupation, identification of specific patterns of local desert kites, the discovery of a long pre-Islamic rampart and of a new pre-Islamic site, as well as the significant amount of rock art and inscriptions

The Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project: Results from Seasons 5 and 6 (2022-2023)

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