id
	15357
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/15357
Resource template
	Book Section
Resource class
	bibo:BookSection
Title
	Nothing but tombs and towers? Results of the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey 2019
Creator
	Döpper, Stephanie
	Schmidt, Conrad
Publisher
	ArchaeoPress
Date
	2020
Language
	eng
Rights
	Copyright (c) 2020 Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Abstract
	Sites with towers in eastern Arabia have been interpreted as regional centres of the Early Bronze Age. One of those sites is Al-Khashbah in central Oman. Until now, however, nothing was known about its hinterland that would support the idea of a regional centre. The Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey was therefore initiated in order, for the first time, to provide comprehensive and detailed knowledge of this third-millennium BC landscape. This paper presents the results of the remote sensing and ground truthing of potential features in the 2019 field season. Nearly 4000 archaeological structures ranging from the Neolithic to the modern era have been positively identified. Interestingly, some periods such as the Hafit and Wadi Suq were abundantly present, while the Umm an-Nar and Late Bronze Age were almost totally missing. It is also important to note that, except for the possible Hafit-period tower at Al-Fath, no Bronze Age settlement sites were found. The reasons behind this pattern remain to be discovered.
Is Part Of
	Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Spatial Coverage
	Oxford
Pages
	157-169
Short title
	Nothing but tombs and towers?
Uri
	https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/258
Volume
	50
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/7NRU9A2P/item-list

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