Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea /

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Other Authors: Starkey, Janet, 1948-, Starkey, Paul, 1947-, Wilkinson, T. J.

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Language: English

Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

Series: BAR International Series ; 1661.
Society for Arabian Studies monographs ; 5.

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Call Number: DT39 .P52 2006

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245 0 0 |a Natural resources and cultural connections of the Red Sea /   |c edited by Janet Starkey, Paul Starkey, Tony Wilkinson.  |b   
264 1 |a Oxford :   |b Archaeopress,   |c 2007. 
300 |a x, 261 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 30 cm. 
490 1 |a BAR International Series ;   |v 1661. 
490 1 |a Society for Arabian Studies monographs ;   |v 5. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a •Pt. 1. Natural resources of the Red Sea. Environment, landscapes and archaeology of the Yemeni Tihamah / R. Neil Munro and Tony J. Wilkinson • The formation of a southern Red Sea seascape in the late prehistoric period: tracing cross-Red Sea culture-contact, interaction, and maritime communities along the Tihamah coastal plain, Yemen, in the third to first millennium BC / Lamya Khalidi • Products from the Read 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 Arabægypti 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.  
650 0 |a Ethnology   |z Red Sea Region   |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Natural resources   |z Red Sea Region   |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Social archaeology   |z Red Sea Region   |v Congresses. 
651 0 |a Red Sea Region   |x Antiquities   |v Congresses. 
651 0 |a Red Sea Region   |x Civilization   |v Congresses. 
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700 1 |a Starkey, Paul,   |d 1947- 
700 1 |a Wilkinson, T. J.  |q (Tony J.) 
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