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A pristine copy. - Contents: Guidelines and Transliteration -- Editors' Foreword -- Hidaya M. Abbas: Bayt Bin Himd, a case study of a merchant 's house in old Jiddah (poster) -- Aisha Alshehri: Documenting the traditional architecture of Khatbah village in Saudi Arabia (poster) -- Marie-Claire Bakker & Mariam Yousef Alhammadi: Liminality: narratives of identity on Abu Dhabi 's desert islands -- Piotr Bielinski: Bahrah 1: eight years of excavations of an Ubaid culture-related settlement in the al-Sabiyyah desert (Kuwait) -- Jose C. Carvajal Lopez, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, Robert Carter & Faysal 'Abd Allah al-Na'imi: From tentscape to landscape: a multi-scale analysis of long-term patterns of occupation in north-west Qatar -- Guillaume Charloux, Charlene Bouchaud, Caroline Durand, Yvonne Gerber & Jacqueline Studer: Living in Mada'in Salih/Hegra during the late pre-Islamic period. The excavations of Area 1 in the ancient city -- Werner Daum: San'a': the origins of Abrahah's cathedral and the Great Mosque - a water sanctuary of the old Arabian religion -- Richard N. Fletcher, Robert A. Carter & Frederick Nesta: Use of archival aerial photographs for archaeological research in the Arabian Gulf -- Sumio Fujii: Bridging the enclosure and the tower tomb: new insights from the Wadi Sharma sites, north-west Arabia -- Francesco Genchi, Luciano Fattore, Alessia Nava & Elena Maini: The LCG2 complex at Dibba (Musandam, Oman, II-I millennium BC): structural, material, and osteological elements -- Jason T. Herrmann, J�rg W.E. Fa�inder, Marion Scheiblecker, Philippe Kluge, Stephanie D�pper & Conrad Schmidt: Magnetometer survey of a Hafit monumental complex, al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman (poster) -- Mathilde Jean, Maria Paola Pellegrino & Guillaume Gemez: New evidence of Iron Age ritual practices in central Oman: 2017 excavations in Mudmar East, near Adam -- Abdulla Khalfan Al Kaabi & Ali Abdul Rahman Al Meqbali: New light on Bronze Age trade in the Arabian Gulf: a Dilmun trading port on Sir Bani Yas island, UAE -- Romolo Loreto: Results from the 2009-2016 excavation seasons in the historical centre of Dumat al-Jandal, ancient Adummatu -- Marta Luciani & Abdullah S. Alsaud: The new archaeological joint project on the site of Qurayyah, north-west Arabia: results of the first two excavation seasons -- Marta Luciani, Michaela Binder & Abdullah S. Alsaud: Life and living conditions in north-west Arabia during the Bronze Age: first results from the bioarchaeological work at Qurayyah -- Phillip G. Macumber: Sea level and climatic influences on the occupation of Qatar and the Gulf during the Holocene period -- Maria Pia Maiorano, Gr�r Marchand, J�mie Vosges, Jean-Fran�s Berger, Federico Borgi & Vincent Charpentier: The Neolithic of Sharbithat (Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman): typological, technological, and experimental approaches -- Fausto Mauro: The historical context of grave 58 (G58) from the Sinaw area (al-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman): a warrior during the Samad Late Iron Age? (poster) -- Vitaly Naumkin & Leonid Kogan: Women in Soqotri and Omani folklore -- Matt Phelps, St John Simpson & Ian C. Freestone: The early Islamic glass from Sir Bani Yas, UAE -- Agnieszka Pierikowska & Marta Mierzejewska: Late Islamic fishing industry in the Gulf: the case of Khara'ib al-Dasht, Jazirat Faylaka (poster) -- Fergus Reoch: Routes across Arabia: pilgrimage routes from the region of the modern United Arab Emirates in historical context -- J�me Rohmer, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Mahmud al-Hajiri, Rozan Alkhatib Alkontar, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Paul Calou, Damien Gazagne & Kosmas Pavlopoulos: The Thaj Archaeological Project: results of the first field season -- Lukasz Rutkowski: A tumulus cemetery on the north coast of Kuwait Bay: results of survey and excavation in the al-Sabiyyah region -- Ronald Ruzicka: KALAM reloaded -- Peter Sheehan, Timothy Power & Omar Salem Al Kaabi: Al-'Ayn Oases Mapping Project: al-Hili Oasis 2017 -- Enrica Tagliamonte & Alessandra Avanzini: New data from the renewed excavation at Salut: the Iron Age settlement (Qaryat Sal� -- Luna Watkins: Understanding the urban space of an Arabian oasis: the residential quarter of Tayma' -- Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 4 to 6 August 2017. / Suppl. (ISBN 9781784918996): Guidelines and Transliteration -- Michael C.A. Macdonald: Introduction -- The use of languages and scripts in settled areas -- Michael C.A. Macdonald: Towards a re-assessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al-cUla -- Fokelien Kootstra: Scribal practices in contact: two Minaic/Dadanitic mixed texts -- John F. Healey: 'Literacy in literate societies': the scribe in Nabataean and other Aramaic contexts -- Peter Stein: The role of Aramaic on the Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the first millennium BC -- The use of languages and scripts among nomads -- Alessia Prioletta with a note by Christian J. Robin: New research on the 'Thamudic' graffiti from the region of Him�Najr� Saudi Arabia) -- J�me Norris: A survey of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the D�mat al-Jandal area (Saudi Arabia) -- Hani Hayajneh: A preliminary investigation of an Ancient North Arabian invocation from the Madaba region of central Jordan . Ali Al-Manaser: Understanding Safaitic inscriptions in their topographical context -- Ahmad Al-Jallad: The earliest attestation of laysa and the implications for its etymology -- Papers read at the Special Session. ISBN 9781784918774