Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 39 2009

Contents: V.M. Azzar , Domestic architecture at the Early Bronze Age sites HD6 and RJ2 (Jaaln, Sultanate of Oman); Mark Beech, Marjan Mashkour, Matthias Huels & Antoine Zazzo, Prehistoric camels in south-eastern Arabia: the discovery of a new site in Abu Dhabis Western Region, United Arab Emirates; Mohammed Ali Al-Belushi & Ali Tigani ElMahi, Archaeological investigations in Shenah, Sultanate of Oman; Lucia Benedikov & Peter Barta, A Bronze Age settlement at al-Khir, Failakah Island, Kuwait; Olivier Brunet, Bronze and Iron Age carnelian bead production in the UAE and Armenia: new perspectives; Ingo Buchmann, Tobias Schrder & Paul Yule, Documentation and visualisation of archaeological sites in Yemen: an antique relief wall in Zafr (poster); Fabio Cavulli, Emanuela Cristiani & Simona Scaruffi, Techno-functional analysis at the fishing settlement of KHB1 (Ras al-Khabbah, Jaaln, Sultanate of Oman); Julien Charbonnier, Dams in the western mountains of Yemen: a imyarite model of water management; Christian Darles, Les monolithes dans larchitecture monumentale de lArabie du Sud antique; Daniel Eddisford & Carl Phillips, Kalb in the third millennium (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE); Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman, Yemen: religion, magic, and Jews; Francesco G. Fedele, Sabaean animal economy and household consumption at Yal, eastern Khawln al-iyl, Yemen; Serge A. Frantsouzoff, The status of sacred pastures according to Sabaic inscriptions; Jessica Giraud & Serge Cleuziou, Funerary landscape as part of the social landscape and its perceptions: 3000 Early Bronze Age burials in the eastern Jaln (Sultanate of Oman); Alexandrine Gurin & Faysal al-Naimi, Territory and settlement patterns during the Abbasid period (ninth century AD): the village of Murwab (Qatar); Mria Hajnalov, Zora Miklkov & Tereza Belanov- tolcov, Environmental research at al-Khir, Failakah Island, Kuwait; Hani Hayajneh, Ancient North ArabianNabataean bilingual inscriptions from southern Jordan; Marco Iamoni, The Iron Age ceramic tradition in the Gulf: a re-evaluation from the Omani perspective; Manfred Kropp, People of powerful South Arabian kings or just people of their kind we annihilated before? Proper noun or common noun in Qurn 44:37 and 50:14; Johannes Kutterer & Sabah A. Jasim, First report on the copper-smelting site HLO-1 in Wd al-Hilo, UAE; Romolo Loreto, House and household: a contextual approach to the study of South Arabian domestic architecture. A case study from seventh- to sixth-century BC Yal/ad-Durayb; Louise Martin, Joy McCorriston & Rmy Crassard, Early Arabian pastoralism at Manayzah in Wd an, Hadramawt; Giovanni Mazzini & Alexandra Porter, Stela BM 102600=CIH 611 in the British Museum: water regulation between two bordering estates; Anne Multhoff, A parallel to the Second Commandment revisited; Khudooma al-Naimi, The discovery of insect remains associated with a Bronze Age tomb in the United Arab Emirates: a preliminary study (poster); Andrew Petersen, Islamic urbanism in eastern Arabia: the case of the al-Aynal-Buraym oasis; Valeria Fiorani Piacentini & Christian Velde, The battle of Julfr (880/1475); Alexandra Porter, Rebecca Stacey & Brendan Derham, The function of ceramic jar Type 4100: a preliminary organic residue analysis; C.N. Reeler, N.Y. Al-Shaikh & D.T. Potts, An historical cartographic study of the Yabrn oasis, Saudi Arabia; Katrien Rutten, South-east Arabian pottery at ed-Dur (al-Dr), Umm al-Qaiwayn, UAE: its origin, distribution, and role in the local economy; Abdulrahman al-Salimi, The Wajhids of Oman.