Seasonal Aspects of Bronze and Iron Age Communities at Ra's al-Hadd, Oman

Caroline R. Cartwright

Environmental Archaeology, 1998, vol. 3, issue 1, 97-102

Abstract: Excavations of third millennium BC and later settlement, burial and workshop sites have been carried out at Ra's al-Hadd, Oman in 1988–9 and 1992 under the direction of Dr J. Reade. These excavations form part of the Joint Hadd Project, a multi-disciplinary programme of research co-directed by Dr S Cleuziou, Dr J Reade and Professor M Tosi; the Ra's al-Hadd portion of the Joint Hadd project is sponsored by the British Museum and the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman and the Ra's al-Junayz portion by I.S.M.E.O and the C.N.R.S.Environmental evidence from the Ra's al-Hadd sites includes charcoal, charred fruits and seeds, mammal and fish bones, land and marine molluscs. Evaluation of pollen samples is in progress. This paper examines aspects of the ongoing environmental research which aims not only to re-create patterns of resource exploitation through time, but also to chart possible seasonal variability in cultural, subsistence, economic and trading terms. Some comparisons will be made with the dynamics of the present system of seasonal resource exploitation by the Ra's al-Hadd community.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1179/env.1998.3.1.97

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