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Field-Studies in Southern Arabia

Field-Studies in Southern Arabia FIELD-STUDIES IN SOUTHERN ARABIA M.B. PIOTROVSKIJ and A.V. SEDOV (St. Petersburg and Moscow) Abstract A joint Soviet-Yemeni expedition began work in 1983 on a range of interdisciplinary studies aiming to fill systematically the lacunae in our knowledge of the history and culture of ancient Yemen. For 8 seasons the archaeological excavations were carried out on fixed sites: at the Palaeolithic cave al-Quza, at the city and necropolis of Rayb � n (11th-1st c. B.C.), at Qana', the ancient seaport of Hadramaut (1st-7th c. A.D.) and at the site of Hajrya on the island of Socotra (2nd-10th c. B.C.). Surveys of the Hadramaut allow us to date the establishment of irrigation and permanent agriculture in the region to the end of the 2nd mill. B.C., while excavations at Rayb � n show the development in the same period of a literate urban culture by a people who spoke a Hadramaut dialect and used the monumental S. Arabian script, provide evidence for the arrival in the region of the Sabaeans in the 8th-7th c. B.C. and allow the first reconstruction of the com- plete structure of an ancient Hadramaut temple complex. Excavations at Qana' shed light on the history and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0929-077X
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1570-0577
DOI
10.1163/157005794X00075
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Abstract

FIELD-STUDIES IN SOUTHERN ARABIA M.B. PIOTROVSKIJ and A.V. SEDOV (St. Petersburg and Moscow) Abstract A joint Soviet-Yemeni expedition began work in 1983 on a range of interdisciplinary studies aiming to fill systematically the lacunae in our knowledge of the history and culture of ancient Yemen. For 8 seasons the archaeological excavations were carried out on fixed sites: at the Palaeolithic cave al-Quza, at the city and necropolis of Rayb � n (11th-1st c. B.C.), at Qana', the ancient seaport of Hadramaut (1st-7th c. A.D.) and at the site of Hajrya on the island of Socotra (2nd-10th c. B.C.). Surveys of the Hadramaut allow us to date the establishment of irrigation and permanent agriculture in the region to the end of the 2nd mill. B.C., while excavations at Rayb � n show the development in the same period of a literate urban culture by a people who spoke a Hadramaut dialect and used the monumental S. Arabian script, provide evidence for the arrival in the region of the Sabaeans in the 8th-7th c. B.C. and allow the first reconstruction of the com- plete structure of an ancient Hadramaut temple complex. Excavations at Qana' shed light on the history and

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Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to SiberiaBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1995

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