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Archaeopress
Language
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261

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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. Natural resources of the Red Sea. Environment, landscapes and archaeology of the Yemeni Tihamah / R. Neil Munro and Tony J. Wilkinson
The formation of a southern Red Sea 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 / Lamya Khalidi
Products from the Read Sea at Petra in the medieval period / Stephan G Schmid and Jacqueline Studer
Continuing studies of plants and animals and their Arabic names from the Royal Danish Expedition to the Red Sea, 1761-1763 / F. Nigel Hepper
Coral reef conservation and the current status of reefs of the Ras Mohamed National Park in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of ʻAqabah / Steve McMellor and David J Smith
pt. 2. The sea: boats and navigation. How fast is fast? Technology, trade and speed under sail in the Roman Red Sea / Julian Whitewright
Warships in the Red Sea, an outstanding phenomenon / Sarah Arenson
Features of ships and boats in the Indian Ocean / Norbert Weismann
Decorative motifs on Red Sea boats: meaning and identity / Dionisius A. Agius
The Red Sea Jalbah. Local phenomenon or regional prototype? / James Edgar Taylor
Charting a hazardous sea / Sarah Searight
pt. 3. Harbours: ways oflife and cultural connections. Red Sea harbours, hinterlands and relationships in preclassical antiquity / Kenneth A. Kitchen
Sea port to punt: new evidence from Marsā Gawāsīs, Red Sea (Egypt) / Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich and Cheryl Ward
The Arabægypti Ichthyophagi: cultural connections with Egypt and the maintenance of identity / Ross Iain Thomas
Aila and Clysma: the rise of northern ports in the Red Sea in late antiquity / Walter Ward
Shipwrecks, coffee and canals: the landscapes of Suez / Janet Starkey
pt. 4. The cultural connections of the Red Sea. What is the evidence for external trading contacts on the East African coast in the first millennium BC? / Paul J.J. Sinclair
The 'Arabians' of pre-Islamic Egypt / Tim Power
Red Sea and Indian Ocean: ports and their hinterland / Eivind Heldaas Seland
Bishops and traders: the role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the Roman Period / Roberta Tomber
Arabic Sources for the Ming voyages / Paul Lunde
From the White Sea to the Red Sea: Piri Reis and the Ottoman conquest of Egypt / Paul Starkey.

Edition Notes

"... 'Red Sea III: natural resources and cultural conncetions of the Red Sea' was organized by the Society ofr Arabian Studies at the British Museum and held on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 october 2006"--p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford
Series
BAR international series -- 1661, Society for Arabian Studies monographs -- no. 5
Genre
Congresses.

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Dewey Decimal Class
909.096533
Library of Congress
CC79.E85 N86 2007

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Pagination
x, 261 p. :
Number of pages
261

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Open Library
OL19304289M
ISBN 10
1407300970
ISBN 13
9781407300979
LCCN
2007532347
OCLC/WorldCat
163570109

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