Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40 2010

Volume Contents: The Qatar National Historic Environment Record: a bespoke cultural resource management tool and the wider implications for heritage management within the region (Rebecca Beardmore et al.); Preliminary pottery study: Murwab horizon in progress, ninth century AD, Qatar (Alexandrine Gurin); Excavations and survey at al-Ruwaydah, a late Islamic site in northern Qatar (Andrew Petersen & Tony Grey); Al-Zubrah and its hinterland, north Qatar: excavations and survey, spring 2009 (Alan Walmsley et al.); A possible Upper Palaeolithic and Early Holocene flint scatter at Ra's Ushayriq, western Qatar (Faisal Abdulla Al-Naimi et al.); The dhows last redoubt? Vestiges of wooden boatbuilding traditions in Yemen (Dionisius A. Agius et al.); Building materials in South Arabian inscriptions: observations on some problems concerning the study of architectural lexicography (Alessio Agostini); Conflation of celestial and physical topographies in the Omani decorated mihrb (Soumyen Bandyopadhyay); Al-Bald ship timbers: preliminary overview and comparisons (Luca Belfioretti & Tom Vosmer); Fouilles Masf-3 en 2009 (mirat de Fujayrah, mirats Arabes Unis): premires observations propos dun espace cultuel de lge du Fer nouvellement dcouvert en Arabie orientale (Anne Benoist); First investigations at the Wd al-Ayn tombs, Oman (poster) (Manfred Bhme); Glass bangles of al-Shhr, Hadramawt (fourteenthnineteenth centuries), a corpus of new data for the understanding of glass bangle manufacture in Yemen (Stphanie Boulogne & Claire Hardy-Guilbert); Lemploi du bois dans larchitecture du Ymen antique (Christian Darles); Once more on the interpretation of mtl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna) (Serge A. Frantsouzoff); New evidence on the use of implements in al-Madm area, Sharjah, UAE (Alejandro Gallego Lpez); The first three campaigns (2007-2009) of the survey at dam (Sultanate of Oman) (Jessica Giraud et al.); A new approach to central Omani prehistory (Reto Jagher & Christine Pmpin); Umm an-Nar settlement in the Wd Andam (Sultanate of Oman) (Nasser al-Jahwari & Derek Kennet); Mapping Masna at Mryah: using GIS to reconstruct the development of a multi-period site in the highlands of Yemen (Krista Lewis et al.); Written Mahri, Mahri fusha and their implications for early historical Arabic (Samuel Liebhaber); How difficult is it to dedicate a statue? A new approach to some Sabaic inscriptions from Mahrib (Anne Multhoff); The semantic structure of motion verbs in the dialect of Zabd (Yemen) (Samia Nam); Preliminary results of the Dhofar archaeological survey (Lynne S. Newton & Juris Zarins); An early MIS3 wet phase at palaeolake aqabah: preliminary interpretation of the multi-proxy record (Ash Parton et al.); South Arabian inscriptions from the Farasn Islands (Saudi Arabia) (Solne Marion de Proc & Carl Phillips); The River Aftan: an old caravan/trade route along Wd al-Sahbm (Nabiel Y. Al Shaikh & Claire Reeler); The Wd Sq pottery: a typological study of the pottery assemblage at Hili 8 (UAE) (Sabrina Righetti & Serge Cleuziou); A arf talisman from Ghayl B Wazr, Hadramawt (Mikhail Rodionov); The Qalht Project: new research at the medieval harbour site of Qalht, Oman (2008) (Axelle Rougeulle); Irrigation management in pre-Islamic South Arabia according to the epigraphic evidence (Peter Stein); A detective story: emphatics in Mehri (Janet C.E. Watson & Alex Bellem); Shell mounds of the Farasn Islands, Saudi Arabia (M.G.M. Williams); The Almaqah temple of Meqaber Ga'ewa near Wuqro (Tigray, Ethiopia) (Pawel Wolf & Ulrike Nowotnick).