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Natural Resources and Cultural Connections of the Red Sea
Janet Starkey, Paul Starkey and Tony Wilkinson
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This book presents the proceedings of Red Sea Project III held in the British Museum, London, in October 2006.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Series Editors
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Contents
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List of Figures, Maps and Tables
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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The Contributors
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Part I: Natural Resources of the Red Sea
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Environment, Landscapes and Archaeology of the Yemeni Tihamah
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The Formation of a Southern Red Seascape in the Late Prehistoric Period: Tracing Cross–Red Sea Culture-Contact, Interaction, and Maritime Communities along the Tihamah Coastal Plain, Yemen, in the Third to First Millennium BC
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Products from the Red Sea at Petra in the Medieval Period
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Continuing Studies of Plants and Animals and their Arabic Names from the Royal Danish Expedition to the Red Sea, 1761–1763
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Coral Reef Conservation and the Current Status of Reefs of the Ras Mohamed National Park in the Northern Red Sea and Gulf of ‘Aqabah
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Part II: The Sea: Boats and Navigation
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How Fast is Fast? Technology, Trade and Speed under Sail in the Roman Red Sea
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The Red Sea — a Bridge or a Barrier? The Case of Naval Warfare
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Features of Ships and Boats in the Indian Ocean
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Decorative Motifs on Arabian Boats: Meaning and Identity
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The Red Sea Jalbah or Jalabah. Local Phenomenon or Regional Prototype?
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Navigating a Hazardous Sea
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Part III: Harbours: Ways of Life and Cultural Connections
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Red Sea Harbours, Hinterlands and Relationships in Preclassical Antiquity
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Sea Port to Punt: New Evidence from Marsa Gawasis, Red Sea (Egypt)
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The Arabægypti Ichthyophagi: Cultural Connections with Egypt and the Maintenance of Identity
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Aila and Clysma: The Rise of Northern Ports in the Red Sea in Late Antiquity
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Shipwrecks, Coffee and Canals: the Landscapes of Suez
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Part IV: The Cultural Connections of the Red Sea
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What is the Archaeological Evidence for External Trading Contacts on the East African Coast in the First Millennium BC?
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The ‘Arabians’ of pre-Islamic Egypt
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Red Sea and Indian Ocean: Ports and their Hinterland
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Bishops and Traders: The Role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the Roman Period
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Arabic Sources for the Ming Voyages
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From the White Sea to the Red Sea: Piri Reis and the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt
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Index
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407331331 (ebook)
- 9781407300979 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1661
- Prehistory (general titles only)
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Food and Drink / Diet
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Arabia
- Levant / Near East
- Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- Classical and Hellenistic
- Mesopotamia
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
- Multiperiod
- Roman
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
- Christianity / Churches / Monastic
- Landscape Archaeology
- Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
- Early Modern and Modern