id
	15362
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/15362
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Umm an-Nar settlement in the Wādī Andam (Sultanate of Oman)
Creator
	al-Jahwari, Nasser
	Kennet, Derek
Date
	2010
Language
	eng
Abstract
	This paper describes a number of archaeological sites of different sizes dating to the Umm an-Nar period (2500-2000 BC), which were discovered or investigated during the course of a systematic archaeological survey of the Wādī Andam in the al-Sharqīyah region of northern Oman. The first, al-Khashbah, is a very large site with a number of round towers and other structures. The second is a smaller but very well preserved site, al-Ghoryeen (al-Gharīyān), with a single round tower, a tomb field, and traces of domestic structures. A number of much smaller sites are also described that have no structural remains. The existence of these sites was detected by the employment of systematic, large-scale pottery collection in small wadi villages, a technique that has not previously been widely employed by archaeological projects in the region. These sites therefore represent an aspect of Umm an-Nar rural settlement that has not received due scholarly consideration. Having described the various sites, the paper discusses the possibility that they represent three different tiers of an Umm an-Nar settlement hierarchy.
Is Part Of
	Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Issn
	0308-8421
Pages
	201-212
Uri
	https://www.jstor.org/stable/41224020
Volume
	40
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/2FDJ5DRF/item-list

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