A pristine copy. - Contents: Editors' Foreword -- In memoriam Nigel Groom (1924-2014) -- In memoriam Professor Tony Wilkinson (1948-2014) -- Alessio Agostini: The excavation of the temple of 'Athtar dhu-Qabd in Baraqish. Stratigraphic data and historical reconstruction -- Eleonora Bavutti, Federico Borgi, Elena Maini & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer: Shell fish-hook production at Ras al-Hadd HD-5, Sultanate of Oman (fourth millennium BC): preliminary archaeological and experimental studies (poster) -- St�anie Bonilauri, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Jessica Giraud, Marion Lem� Guillaume Gemez & Eric Fouache: Occupation during the Lower and Middle/Late Palaeolithic period in the Sufrat Valley (Adam region, Sultanate of Oman) -- John P. Cooper, Dionisius A. Agius, Tom Collie & Faisal al-Naimi: Boat and ship engravings at al-Zubarah, Qatar: the daw exposed? -- William ?. Deadman, Derek Kennet & Khamis al-Aufi: Hafit tombs and the development of Early Bronze Age social hierarchy in al-Batinah, Oman (poster) -- Michele Degli Esposti & Anne Benoist: More on Masafi ancestors: the Late Bronze Age site of Masafi-5 -- Liam Delaney, Richard T.H. Cuttier, Faisal al-Naimi, Othmane Bouhali, Ali Sheharyar, Yasser al-Hamidi & Emma Tetlow: Re-presenting Qatari history: 3D digitizing of human remains of the Neolithic Age from Wadi Debayan (poster) -- Stephanie D�pper: The reuse of tombs in the necropolis of Bat, Sultanate of Oman -- Bleda S. D�ring & Eric Olijdam: Revisiting the Suhar hinterlands: the Wadi al-Jizi Archaeological Project -- Guillaume Gemez & Jessica Giraud: Protohistoric graveyards in Adam (Oman). Preliminary report on the 2013 and 2014 seasons of the French Archaeological Mission to Adam -- Martin S. Gofiriller, Ma Hongjiao, Soumyen Bandyopadhyay & Julian Henderson: Chinese porcelains and the decorations of Omani mihrabs -- Maria del Carmen Hidalgo-Chac�iez: The distribution of the Dadanitic inscriptions according to their content and palaeographical features -- Ahmed Hilal, Derek Kennet & Liz Humble: Towards a heritage management strategy for Ras al-Khaimah (UAE) -- �urea Izquierdo Zamora, Richard T.H. Cuttier & Faisal A. al-Naimi: Prehistoric and pre-Islamic burial archaeology in Qatar: new results and perspectives -- Sterenn Le Maguer: The incense trade during the Islamic period. -- Stephen McPhillips, Sandra Rosendahl & Victoria Morgan: Abbasid rural settlement in northern Qatar: seasonal tribal exploitation of an arid environment? -- Vitaly Naumkin & Leonid Kogan: Dual principles and binary oppositions in Soqotri social and oral traditions . Eric Olijdam: Archival practices in Early Dilmun Bahrain as indicated by glyptic evidence from domestic and institutional contexts (poster) -- Robyn Pelling, Richard T.H. Cuttier, Faisal A. al-Naimi, Antonio O. Reis & Liam Delaney: A re-examination of the petroglyphs of Qatar -- Timothy Power, Nasser al-Jahwari, Peter Sheehan & Kristian Strutt: First preliminary report on the Buraimi Oasis Landscape Archaeology Project -- Anjana Reddy: Sourcing Indian ceramics in Arabia: actual imports and local imitations -- Claire Reeler & Nabiel Al Shaikh: A discussion of Neolithic settlement patterns in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain during the Holocene Pluvial Period -- Marielle Risse: Generosity, gift giving, and gift avoiding in southern Oman -- J�me Rohmer & Guillaume Charloux: From Lihyan to the Nabataeans: dating the end of the Iron Age in north-west Arabia -- Abdul Rahman al-Salimi & Eric Staples: Reflections of a Muslim-Portuguese maritime world in a sixteenthcentury Portuguese source -- Julie E. Scott-Jackson, Jeffrey I. Rose, William Scott-Jackson & Faisal al-Naimi: Found: the Palaeolithic of Qatar (poster) -- Peter Sheehan, Timothy Power, Omar Al Kaabi, Mohamed Khalifa, Mohamed al-Dhaheri, Bakheeta al-Mansoori, Leqa al-Zaabi, Myriam al-Dhaheri & Rifaa al-Mansoori: Rediscovering a 'lost' village of al-'Ayn: archaeology and communal memory in the oasis (poster) -- Peter Spencer, Faisal al-Naimi, Richard T.H. Cuttier & Talfan Davies: Between the desert and the sea: the prehistoric landscape of north-western Qatar -- Rachael Sycamore: Social structure and everyday life at the Early Dilmun settlement of Saar, Bahram (poster) -- Walid al-Tikriti, Mohamed al-Neyadi, Diaeddin Tawalbeh, Abdul Rahman al-Nuaimi, Abdullah al-Kaabi & Waleed Oma: Filling a blank: new excavations at an early Islamic site at Oud Al Toba / Muataredh in al-'Ayn, UAE -- Francelin Tourtet & Friedrich Weigel: Tayma' in the Nabataean kingdom and in Provincia Arabia -- T. Van de Velde: Digging into the 'Ubaid period bitumen from Dosariyah -- Julian Jansen van Rensburg & Peter De Geest: Rock art from Dahaisi cave, Socotra, Yemen: a preliminary report. -- Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, on 25-27 July 2014. ISBN 9781784911454