Cross-Roads: Early and Late Iron Age South-Eastern Arabia (Abhandlungen Der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft)
By Paul Yule.
Description
The Early and Late Iron Ages in both the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman form a cross-road in temporal and spatial terms. Paradoxically, in some ways the Iron Age is more difficult to understand than the Bronze Age in this part of Arabia, although many more such sites are known. In recent decades numerous field projects have dwelt on south-eastern Arabia's Iron Age. Nonetheless, closer scrutiny reveals the path to a prehistory of this exotic part of the world to be indirect indeed. Surveys written ten or more years ago are obsolete in significant ways. The Early Iron Age...
ISBN(s)
344710127X, 9783447101271
