Worked and decorated shell discs from southern Arabia and the wider Near East

Title
Worked and decorated shell discs from southern Arabia and the wider Near East
Publication Date
2019-12
Author(s)
Weeks, Lloyd
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4736-9633
Email: lweeks2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lweeks2
David‐Cuny, Hélène
Avanzini, Alessandra
Lischi, Silvia
Genchi, Francesco
Caputo, Francesco
Youssef Al Ali, Yaaqoub
Boraik, Mansour
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1111/aae.12126
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/32149
Abstract
This article presents and discusses a corpus of worked and decorated shell discs from recently excavated archaeological sites in southern Arabia, including Dibba (northern Oman), Saruq al-Hadid (UAE) and Sumhuram/Khor Rori (southern Oman). The artefacts are compared to a wide range of shell discs from controlled excavations in Arabia and the broader Near East in order to better understand their date, manufacture and use. The comparative study highlights the wide distribution of decorated shell discs across the ancient Near East, particularly during the early Iron Age, and the complex economic and cultural connections that underpinned the collection, crafting, exchange and significance of such items.
Link
Citation
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 30(2), p. 213-238
ISSN
1600-0471
0905-7196
Start page
213
End page
238

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