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050 0 _aDS247.B23
_bB34 1986
245 0 0 _aBahrain through the ages :
_bthe archaeology /
_cedited by Haya Ali Al Khalifa, Michael Rice.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bKPI ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bDistributed by Routledge & Kegan Paul,
_c1986.
300 _a526 p. :
_bill., maps (Maps on lining papers.) ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 497-516) and index.
505 0 _aShoreline changes in Bahrain since the beginning of human occupation -- Variation in holocene land use patterns on the Bahrain Islands : construction of a land use model -- The human biological history of the Early Bronze Age population in Bahrain -- Dental anthropological investigations on Bahrain -- India and Bahrain : A survey of culture interaction during the third and second millennia -- The prehistory of the Gulf : recent finds -- The Gulf in prehistory -- Some aspects of Neolithic settlement in Bahrain and adjacent regions -- Early maritime cultures of the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean -- The origins of the Dilmun Civilization -- ‘ The island on the edge of the world' -- Burial mounds near Ali excavated by the Danish Expedition -- Dilmun - a trading entrepôt : evidence from historical and archaeological sources -- Dilmun and Makkan during the third and early second millennia B.C. -- Death in Dilmun -- The Barbar Temple : stratigraphy, architecture and interpretation -- The Barbar Temple : its chronology and foreign relations reconsidered -- The Barbar Temple : the masonry -- The land of Dilmun is holy -- Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf during the second millennium B.C. : Urban crisis and colonialism -- The chronology of City II and III at Qal'at al-Bahrain -- Iron Age Dilmun : A reconsideration of City IV at Qal'at al-Bahrain -- MAR-TU and the land of Dilmun -- The shell seals of Bahrain -- Susa and the Dilmun Culture -- The Dilmun seals as evidence of long distance relations in the early second millennium B.C. -- Indus and Gulf type seals from Ur -- Animal designs and Gulf chronology -- Eyestones and Pearls -- The Tarut statue as a peripheral contribution to the knowledge of early Mesopotamian plastic art -- Commerce or Conquest : variations in the Mesopotamia-Dilmun relationship -- The occurrence of Dilmun in the oldest texts of Mesopotamia -- The Deities of Dilmun -- The lands of Dilmun : changing cultural and economic relations during the third to early second millennia B.C. -- Trade and cultural contacts between Bahrain and India in the third and second millennia B.C. -- Bahrain and the Indus civilisation -- Dilmun's further relations : the Syro-Anatolian evidence from the third and second millennia B.C. -- Tylos and Tyre : Bahrain in the Graeco-Roman World -- A three generations' matrilineal genealogy in a Hasaean inscription : matrilineal ancestry in Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Bahrain and its position in an eco-cultural classification-concept of the Gulf : some theoretical aspects of eco-cultural zones -- Dilmun and the Late Assyrian Empire -- Some notes about Qal'at al-Bahrain during the Hellenistic period -- The Janussan necropolis and late first millennium B.c. burial customs in Bahrain -- Qalat al-Bahrain : a strategic position from the Hellenistic period until modern times -- The presentation and conservation of archaeological sites in Bahrain -- The Barbar Temple site in Bahrain : conservation and presentation -- The traditional architecture of Bahrain.
651 0 _aBahrain
_xAntiquities
_vCongresses.
651 0 _aBahrain
_xHistory
_vCongresses.
700 1 _aKhalifa, Haya Ali.
700 1 _aRice, Michael,
_d1928-
710 1 _aبحرين.
_bوزارة الإعلام.
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