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The Tihamah Coastal Plain of South-West Arabia in its Regional Context c. 6000 BC – AD 600
Nadia Durrani
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The Tihamah plain extends some 500km down the western coast of modern Yemen and about 100km along its southern coast. This publication presents the first long-term culture-history of the Tihamah, through the exploration of socio-economic, cultural and political developments and of the region's relation to the rest of South West Arabia to its east, and to the Horn of Africa lying to its west, across the Red Sea. This research assimilates and analyses all of the available data for an archaeological understanding of the pre-Islamic Tihamah. This comprehensive study, taken in a long-term perspective, enables the identification of patterns, discontinuities, changes and current interpretive problems related to the development of the Tihamah in its relation to neighbouring regions. The analysis is based on published and unpublished archaeological research - including field research undertaken by the author - and on a range of historical sources, which include South West Arabian pre-Islamic inscriptions and Graeco-Roman sources. It also draws on a disparate range of relevant data from the rest of South West Arabia and the Horn of Africa over an equivalent period. This publication demonstrates the importance of the Tihamah to wider cultural, economic and political developments within the rest of South West Arabia and the Horn of Africa. It adds to the emerging pre-Islamic history of other regions of South West Arabia that have been studied more fully elsewhere.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Abstract
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Table of Contents
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List of Tables and Figures
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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CHAPTER 1: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN SOUTH WEST ARABIA: AN HISTORIOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW
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CHAPTER 2: THE TIHAMAH AS A REGION: PHYSICAL AND HISTORICAL EVIDENCE
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CHAPTER 3: A SYNTHESIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND THE CULTURE HISTORY OF SOUTH WEST ARABIA FROM THE 6TH MILLENNIUM BC TO THE 6TH CENTURY AD
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CHAPTER 4: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE CULTURE-HISTORY OF THE TIHAMAH IN THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD FROM THE 6TH TO THE 1ST MILLENNIA BC
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CHAPTER 5: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE CULTURE-HISTORY OF THE TIHAMAH IN THE IRON AGE
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CHAPTER 6: RELATIONS BETWEEN THE HORN OF AFRICA AND SOUTH WEST ARABIA FROM THE 6TH MILLENNIUM BC TO THE 6TH CENTURY AD
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CHAPTER 7: SYNTHESIS: THE PRE-ISLAMIC TIHAMAH IN ITS REGIONAL CONTEXT FROM THE 6TH MILLENNIUM BC TO THE 6TH CENTURY AD
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Published: 2005
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407329031 (ebook)
- 9781841718941 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1456
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Multiperiod
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
- Arabia
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
- Classical and Hellenistic