Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31739
Title: Five Thousand Years of Shell Exploitation at Bandar Jissah, Sultanate of Oman
Contributor(s): Thornton, Christopher P (author); Cable, Charlotte M  (author)orcid ; Bosch, David (author); Bosch, Leslie (author)
Publication Date: 2018
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/31739
Open Access Link: http://www.archaeopress.com/public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7B33B27C62-E3C2-48C3-85E7-EE179B8A54FA%7DOpen Access Link
Abstract: 

Bandar Jissah is a sheltered cove on the eastern side of the Muscat Capital Area of the Sultanate of Oman that was occupied from at least the Neolithic period(5th-4th millennia BC) through the Late Islamic era. Following investigations by the Uerpmanns and Paul Yule in the 1980s-90s and limited excavations by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture in the 2000s, salvage excavations were conducted by the authors at Bandar Jissah in 2009 under the direction of Prof. Gregory Possehl. These test excavations at the Neolithic shell middens and the Iron Age settlement uncovered a substantial quantity and variety of seashells that suggest the exploitation of marine resources for both subsistence and craft working. In this paper, presented in honor of a scholar who began his career studying seashell crafting, a diachronic view of sea shell extraction and use is detailed from one small area of the Oman Peninsula.

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia, p. 547-567
Publisher: Archaeopress
Place of Publication: Summertown, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781784919184
9781784919177
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430102 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
430108 Maritime archaeology
430199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
280123 Expanding knowledge in human society
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={946FE518-961D-49DE-A0C2-3579409D43A1}
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076320924
Series Name: Serie Orientale Roma
Series Number : 15
Editor: Editor(s): Dennys Frenez, Gregg M Jamison, Randall W Law, Massimo Vidale and Richard H Meadow
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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