Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarchaeology of an Ancient SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press, 1983 - 339 էջ According to archeological and historical records, the Bahrain Islands of the Arabian Gulf were the home of a flourishing civilization four thousant years ago. Then, as now, these islands served as an important locus of maritime trade, but they were also characterized as a land of copious artesian springs and fertile fields. Modern Bahrain, in contrast, is beset by environmental and demographic problems: the depletion of the artesian water supply, abandonment of rural agricultural lands, and rapid population growth. In this exemplary interdisciplinary study, Curtis E. Larsen combines archeological, geological, historical, and anthropological methods to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental and socioeconomic context that links Bahrain's present to its past. |
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BahrainThe Present | 6 |
Prehistory and History of Bahrain | 24 |
Environmental Perspectives | 114 |
Section GASI | 157 |
Sections KSSI and TLW2 | 161 |
Section TLW4 | 163 |
Section WSB | 167 |
Comparative Chart of Holocene Environmental Changes and Bahrains Land Use Patterns | 183 |
Barbar II Plain Wares | 236 |
Barbar II Painted Wares | 238 |
Barbar II Cooking Wares | 240 |
Miscellaneous Barbar II Wares | 242 |
Kassite through Hellenistic Pottery | 250 |
Pottery Types from Sounding 518 by Level | 254 |
NeoAssyrian and NeoBabylonian Pottery | 256 |
NeoAssyrian and NeoBabylonian Pottery | 258 |
Geoarcheological Synthesis | 187 |
Geologic Profile of the Southwest Coast of Bahrain | 193 |
Holocene Population Estimates for the Bahrain Islands | 198 |
Ceramic Analysis | 209 |
Barbar Period Pottery | 210 |
North Wall Pottery Type by Level | 212 |
Selected Pottery Types by Level | 215 |
PreBarbar Shortnecked Vessels | 216 |
PreBarbar Plain and Painted Ware | 218 |
Miscellaneous PreBarbar Ware | 222 |
Barbar I Plain and Incised Wares | 224 |
Barbar I Plain Wares | 227 |
Barbar I Fine and Painted Wares | 228 |
Barbar I Cooking Wares | 231 |
Barbar I Cooking Wares | 232 |
AchaemenidSeleucidParthian Pottery | 260 |
AchaemenidSeleucidParthian Pottery | 262 |
AchaemenidSeleucidParthian Pottery | 264 |
Late ParthianSasanian Pottery | 266 |
Late ParthianSasanian Pottery | 268 |
Early Islamic Pottery | 272 |
Early and Medieval Islamic Pottery | 274 |
Medieval Plain and Glazed Wares | 278 |
Medieval Islamic Plain and Decorated Wares | 280 |
Medieval and Late Islamic Cooking Wares | 284 |
Late Islamic Glazed Wares 286 | 288 |
Late Islamic Plain and Glazed Wares | 290 |
Catalog of Archeological Sites | 295 |
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Abbasid Achaemenid-Seleucid-Parthian agricultural Akkadian Alat anhydrite aquifers Arabian coast Arabian Gulf archeological assemblage Bahrain Barbar II Barbar II phase Barbar ware base Bibby bowls buff slip Carmathian centuries A.D. ceramic Cooking Wares cream slip deposits Dilmun Diraz dynasty Early Dynastic Early Islamic eastern Arabia eolian evaporites evidence example excavation Gerrha glaze on buff gray ware growth Hofuf hole-mouths Holocene indicate Isin-Larsa Islamic period island Kassite Khobar km² lacustrine lake land Late Islamic Level 18 Level 24 light brown ware limestone Manama medieval Islamic Meluhha Mesopotamia Ming dynasty Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian occupation orange ware parallels Parthian patterns Pleistocene population population density pre-Barbar present Profile Qala'at al-Bahrain Qatif radiocarbon dates sand-tempered sand-tempered buff ware sand-tempered red ware Sasanian Saudi Arabia sequence settlement sherds shown in Figure shows silt similar slip on light stratigraphic surface Temple tomb group Ubaid Umm an-Nar vessels villages wadi zone