{"id":2829,"date":"2018-11-19T02:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2018-11-22T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:30:36","slug":"third-international-conference-on-the-archaeology-of-the-arabian-peninsula-the-neolithic-in-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/third-international-conference-on-the-archaeology-of-the-arabian-peninsula-the-neolithic-in-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula (The Neolithic in Arabia)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula (The Neolithic in Arabia)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organised by the\u00a0National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) &\u00a0the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences (CEFAS)<\/p>\n

20-22 November 2018<\/p>\n

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National Library of Kuwait
\n<\/strong>Qibla Block 15
\nAl Ma\u2019arri Street
\nP.O. Box 26182
\nAl Safat 13122
\nKuwait City
\nKuwait
\nWeb: https:\/\/www.nlk.gov.kw\/\u00a0<\/a>
\nTel:\u00a0 00965-22929801 \u2013 00965-22929802
\nGoogle maps location: https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/DoVxqVkq1iT2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I am presenting a paper entitled “New results from excavations at MR11, Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates”<\/em><\/p>\n

This will be presented on Tuesday 20 November from 11:05-11:25 am in Session 2: Latest results from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.<\/p>\n

\n

The full conference programme is as follows:<\/p>\n

20 November 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 \u2013 9:00
\nWelcoming of the participants and general public<\/p>\n

9:00 \u2013 9:10
\nOfficial speeches<\/p>\n

9:00 NCCAL representative(s)<\/p>\n

9:05 French Embassy in Kuwait representative and CEFAS Director<\/p>\n

9:10 \u2013 9:20
\nIntroduction to the Conference topic by\u00a0R\u00e9my CRASSARD (CNRS \/ CEFAS, France \/ Kuwait)<\/p>\n

SESSION 1.
\n<\/strong>Origins and dispersals of the Arabian Neolithic
\n<\/strong>(Chair: Dr Robert Carter – Former Director of British Excavation Mission in al Sabbiya area)<\/p>\n

9:20 \u2013 9:40
\nYamand\u00fa H. HILBERT (CNRS, France)
\nStone tool use in Arabia during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation: trends and their impact on human demography<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 \u2013 10:00
\nR\u00e9my CRASSARD (CNRS \/ CEFAS, France \/ Kuwait)
\nA Neolithic influence from the Fertile Crescent? \u2018Naviform\u2019 technology from Saudi Arabia<\/em><\/p>\n

10:00 \u2013 10:20
\nCheryl MAKAREWICZ (University of Kiel, Germany)
\nThe emergence of pastoralism in the Arabian peninsula: Zooarchaeological and isotopic perspectives from the Jordanian highlands and steppe \u2018periphery\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

10:20 \u2013 10:40
\nHans Georg K. GEBEL (Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany)
\nSustainable sedentarisation and the establishment of food production on the Arabian Peninsula<\/em><\/p>\n

10:40 \u2013 10:50
\nQuestions and discussions<\/p>\n

10:50\u2013 11:05
\nCoffee Break<\/p>\n

SESSION 2.
\n<\/strong>Latest results from United Arab Emirates and Qatar
\n<\/strong>(Chair: Dr Moawiya Ibrahim – Archaeologist and Historian – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)<\/p>\n

11:05 \u2013 11:25
\nMark BEECH (Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, UAE)
\nNew results from excavations at MR11, Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates<\/em><\/p>\n

11:25 \u2013 11:45
\nKevin LIDOUR (Paris University Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, France)
\nAnalysis of the fish remains from the Neolithic stone house of Marawah Island (MR11), United Arab Emirates<\/em><\/p>\n

11:45 \u2013 12:05
\nSophie M\u00c9RY (CNRS, France)
\nUAQ36, a fifth millennium BC site in Umm al Quwain<\/em><\/p>\n

12:05 \u2013 12:25
\nRichard CUTTLER (Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, UAE)
\nNeolithic Occupation at Wadi Debay\u2018an, North West Qatar<\/em><\/p>\n

12:25 \u2013 12:35
\nQuestions and discussions<\/p>\n

12:35 \u2013 13:00
\nPre-lunch Break<\/p>\n

SESSION 3.
\n<\/strong>Latest results from Saudi Arabia
\n<\/strong>(Chair: Dr Sayid Mahfoudh – Professor of Ancient History & Archaeology, Kuwait University)<\/p>\n

13:00 \u2013 13:20
\nAbdullah ALSHAREKH (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
\nScientific and stylistic approaches to dating the earliest rock art in Arabia: An evaluation<\/em><\/p>\n

13:20 \u2013 13:40
\nNiklas HAUSMANN (Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece)
\nMarine food sources from the Farasan Islands and their relation to the Arabian mainland and the southern Red Sea<\/em><\/p>\n

13:40 \u2013 13:50
\nQuestions and discussions<\/p>\n

13:50 \u2013 14:00
\nOpen discussion on the first day of conference<\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 14:45
\nLunch at the National Library of Kuwait<\/p>\n

14:45 \u2013 15:00 shuttle to Cultural Centre<\/p>\n

15:00 \u2013 16:30 Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre<\/p>\n

16:30 \u2013 16:40 shuttle to hotel<\/p>\n

16:40 \u2013 19:00 hotel break<\/p>\n

19:00 \u2013 19:30 shuttle to Jabriya<\/p>\n

19:30 \u2013 Reception at the Residence of H.E. the Ambassador of France\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

21 November 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

SESSION 4.
\n<\/strong>Latest results from Oman
\n<\/strong>(Chair: Dr Fahad al Wohaibi – Kuwait University Professor – Former Director of Kuwait National Museum)<\/p>\n

9:00 \u2013 9:20
\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois BERGER (CNRS, France)
\nFirst contribution of the excavation and the chronostratigraphic study of Ruways 1 Neolithic shell middens (Oman), in terms of Neolithization, palaeoeconomy, social-environmental interactions and site formation processes <\/em>(Note: this paper was presented by Remy CRASSARD as\u00a0Jean-Fran\u00e7ois BERGER was unable to come to Kuwait)<\/p>\n

9:20 \u2013 9:40
\nAna\u00efs MARRAST (National Museum of Natural History, France)
\nAncient exploitation of coastal resources during the Arabian Neolithic: the settlements of Ra\u2019s al Hamra 6 and 5 (Sultanate of Oman)<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 \u2013 10:00
\nOlivia MUNOZ (CNRS, France)
\nNeolithic coastal populations from South-Eastern Arabia: the contribution of funerary and bio-anthropological data<\/em><\/p>\n

10:00 \u2013 10:20
\nAsh PARTON (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
\nHolocene Lake and Wetland Development in the Batinah Region of Northern Oman<\/em><\/p>\n

10:20 \u2013 10:40
\nMarcin BIA\u0141OWARCZUK (Warsaw University, Poland)
\nNew prehistoric sites in the Qumayrah Valley, Oman. Preliminary results of two seasons of investigations<\/em><\/p>\n

10:40 \u2013 11:00
\nMaria Pia MAIORANO (Naples University, Italy)
\nProjectile points of Southeastern Arabia: quantitative approach to regional issues<\/em><\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 11:10
\nQuestions and discussions<\/p>\n

11:10\u2013 11:25
\nCoffee Break<\/p>\n

SESSION 5.
\n<\/strong>Neolithic in Kuwait
\n<\/strong>(Chair: Dr Abdulhadi al Ajmi – Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs)<\/p>\n

11:25 \u2013 11:45
\nPiotr BIELINSKI (University of Warsaw, Poland)
\nBahra 1- an Ubaid culture related settlement in Northern Kuwait and its possible functions<\/em><\/p>\n

11:45 \u2013 12:05
\nAgnieszka PIE\u0143KOWSKA (University of Warsaw, Poland)
\nThe earliest settlement remains at the Bahra 1 site<\/em><\/p>\n

12:05 \u2013 12:25
\nRobert CARTER (University College London, UK)
\nThe Arabian Neolithic in Ubaid Mesopotamia? Cross-cultural Interactions in Northern Kuwait and Southern Iraq during the 6th<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0and 5th<\/span>\u00a0millennia BC<\/em><\/p>\n

12:25 \u2013 12:35
\nQuestions and discussions<\/em><\/p>\n

12:35\u2013 13:00
\nPre-lunch Break<\/p>\n

SESSION 6.
\n<\/strong>Ubaid Ceramic from the Gulf
\n<\/strong>(Chair: Dr Piotr Bielinski – Current Director of Polish Excavation Mission in Kuwait)<\/p>\n

13:00 \u2013 13:20
\nHasan ASHKANANI (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
\nA characterization study of Late Neolithic ceramics from As-Sabbiya, Kuwait, using non-destructive pXRF<\/em><\/p>\n

13:20 \u2013 13:40
\nEleanor PRESTON (University College London, Qatar)
\nThe Ubaid in the Arabian Gulf: Petrographic and Compositional Analysis of Ceramic material<\/em><\/p>\n

13:40 \u2013 14:00
\nAnna SMOGORZEWSKA (University of Warsaw, Poland)
\nPottery traditions in the Neolithic Gulf. New evidence from Bahra 1 (Kuwait)<\/em><\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 14:10
\nQuestions and discussions<\/p>\n

14:10 \u2013 14:20
\nConcluding remarks \/ publications<\/p>\n

14:20 \u2013 15:10
\nLunch at the National Library of Kuwait<\/p>\n

15:10 \u2013 15:25 shuttle to Dar al-Athar<\/p>\n

15:25 \u2013 17:00 Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah at Amricani Cultural Centre<\/p>\n

17:00 \u2013 17:10 shuttle to hotel<\/p>\n

17:10 \u2013 19:00 hotel break<\/p>\n

19:00 \u2013 shuttle to dinner<\/p>\n

25 April 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

08:00 \u2013 09:00 shuttle from hotel to Bahra<\/p>\n

09:00 \u2013 11:00 Site visit to Bahra 1 (organized in cooperation with the Kuwaiti-Polish team), and other archaeological sites around Bahra (with Dr Sultan Al-Duwaish)<\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 12:00 shuttle from Bahra to Kuwait City<\/p>\n

13:00
\nLunch in Kuwait City (CEFAS)<\/p>\n

Afternoon: free time at hotel and Kuwait City \/ Departure of the participants in the evening and the day after.<\/p>\n

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