Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Proceedings of the Red Sea Project 3 Proceedings of the Red Sea Project III |
|---|---|
| Körperschaft: |
Society for Arabian Studies.
Red Sea Project (Conference) |
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Starkey, Janet, 1948-
Starkey, Paul, 1947- Wilkinson, T. J. |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
x, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
BAR international series ;
1661 Society for Arabian Studies monographs ; no. 5 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Rotes Meer (Region) |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 7 Datensätze |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Pt. 1. Natural resources of the Red Sea. Environment, landscapes and archaeology of the Yemeni Tihāmah / R. Neil Munro and Tony J. Wilkinson
- The formation of a southern Red Seascape in the late prehistoric period: tracing cross-Red Sea culture-contact, interaction, and maritime communities along the Tihāmah coastal plain, Yemen, in the third to first millennium BC / Lamya Khalidi
- Products from the Red Sea at Petra in the medieval period / Stephan G. Schmid and Jacqueline Studer
- Continuing studies of plants and animals and their Arabic names from the Royal Danish Expedition to the Red Sea, 1761-1763 / F. Nigel Hepper
- Coral reef conservation and the current status of reefs of the Ras Mohamed National Park in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of ʻAqabah / Steve McMellor and David J. Smith
- pt. 2. The sea: boats and navigation. How fast is fast? Technology, trade and speed under sail in the Roman Red Sea / Julian Whitewright
- Warships in the Red Sea, an outstanding phenomenon / Sarah Arenson
- Features of ships and boats in the Indian Ocean / Norbert Weismann
- Decorative motifs on Red Sea boats: meaning and identity / Dionisius A. Agius
- The Red Sea Jalbah. Local phenomenon or regional prototype? / James Edgar Taylor
- Charting a hazardous sea / Sarah Searight
- pt. 3. Harbours: ways oflife and cultural connections. Red Sea harbours, hinterlands and relationships in preclassical antiquity / Kenneth A. Kitchen
- Sea port to punt: new evidence from Marsā Gawāsīs, Red Sea (Egypt) / Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich and Cheryl Ward
- The Arabaegypti Ichthyophagi: cultural connections with Egypt and the maintenance of identity / Ross Iain Thomas
- Aila and Clysma: the rise of northern ports in the Red Sea in late antiquity / Walter Ward
- Shipwrecks, coffee and canals: the landscapes of Suez / Janet Starkey
- pt. 4. The cultural connections of the Red Sea. What is the evidence for external trading contacts on the East African coast in the first millennium BC? / Paul J.J. Sinclair
- The 'Arabians' of pre-Islamic Egypt / Tim Power
- Red Sea and Indian Ocean: ports and their hinterland / Eivind Heldaas Seland
- Bishops and traders: the role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the Roman Period / Roberta Tomber
- Arabic Sources for the Ming voyages / Paul Lunde
- From the White Sea to the Red Sea: Piri Reis and the Ottoman conquest of Egypt / Paul Starkey.
