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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.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Series Editors
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Maps and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Contributors
  • Part I: Natural Resources of the Red Sea
  • Environment, Landscapes and Archaeology of the Yemeni Tihamah
  • 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
  • Products from the Red Sea at Petra in the Medieval Period
  • Continuing Studies of Plants and Animals and their Arabic Names from the Royal Danish Expedition to the Red Sea, 1761–1763
  • Coral Reef Conservation and the Current Status of Reefs of the Ras Mohamed National Park in the Northern Red Sea and Gulf of ‘Aqabah
  • Part II: The Sea: Boats and Navigation
  • How Fast is Fast? Technology, Trade and Speed under Sail in the Roman Red Sea
  • The Red Sea — a Bridge or a Barrier? The Case of Naval Warfare
  • Features of Ships and Boats in the Indian Ocean
  • Decorative Motifs on Arabian Boats: Meaning and Identity
  • The Red Sea Jalbah or Jalabah. Local Phenomenon or Regional Prototype?
  • Navigating a Hazardous Sea
  • Part III: Harbours: Ways of Life and Cultural Connections
  • Red Sea Harbours, Hinterlands and Relationships in Preclassical Antiquity
  • Sea Port to Punt: New Evidence from Marsa Gawasis, Red Sea (Egypt)
  • The Arabægypti Ichthyophagi: Cultural Connections with Egypt and the Maintenance of Identity
  • Aila and Clysma: The Rise of Northern Ports in the Red Sea in Late Antiquity
  • Shipwrecks, Coffee and Canals: the Landscapes of Suez
  • Part IV: The Cultural Connections of the Red Sea
  • What is the Archaeological Evidence for External Trading Contacts on the East African Coast in the First Millennium BC?
  • The ‘Arabians’ of pre-Islamic Egypt
  • Red Sea and Indian Ocean: Ports and their Hinterland
  • Bishops and Traders: The Role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the Roman Period
  • Arabic Sources for the Ming Voyages
  • From the White Sea to the Red Sea: Piri Reis and the Ottoman Conquest of Egypt
  • Index
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Copyright Holder: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407331331 (ebook)
  • 9781407300979 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1661
Subject
  • 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
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