DRAFT PROGRAMME - SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Please note: this is a draft programme, changes may have to be made but we will try not to change the day on which sessions are taking place. All three days have parallel sessions.

Friday 5th August - Session 1

9.00 Welcome / Registration

Session 1: Palaeolithic & Neolithic (Chair: Knut Bretzke/ Julian Jansen van Rensburg)

9.25 Marc Händel et al: The Palaeolithic record of Abu Dhabi Emirate (UAE)

9.50 Knut Bretzke: Jebel Faya surprises again: Evidence for human occupation during a supposedly hyper-arid period

10.15 Kevin Lidour: First insights into the production and the use of shell scrapers during the Neolithic in coastal Arabia. Preliminary results of experimental and use-wear analysis approaches

10.40 Break

11.10 Noura Hamad Al Hameli et al.: New light on the Neolithic Fertile Coast: Recent excavations on Ghagha Island (Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE) and the emergence of domestic architecture in ancient Arabia

11.35 Jane McMahon: Exploring Late Neolithic domestic occupation in northwest Saudi Arabia

12.00 Christine Kainert: Overseas Interaction through the Lens of the Dosariyah Pottery - Final Results of the Pottery Analysis of a 5th Millennium Site in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

12.25 Maria Pia Maiorano et al.: The Middle Holocene occupation of Al-Khashbah (Sultanate of Oman): first results and chronological implications

12.50 Lunch

Session 2: Bronze Age (Chair: Alina Zur)

14.00 Christophe Sevin Allouet et al: The necropolis of Khor Jarama: towards the discovery of a new prehistoric culture in Oman?

14.25 Valentina Azzara et al.: New insight on the Hafit coastal occupations in Oman: excavation at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Ras al-Jinz RJ-3

14.50 Mathilde Jean et al: The Early Bronze Age in the Hajar oases: new investigations of the settlement, funerary and monumental site of al-Dhabi 2 (Bisya, Oman)

15.15 Break

15.45 Sara Pizzimenti et al: The Omani-Italian Archaeological Expedition at Al Tikha: Preliminary Report of the 2022 Archaeological Campaign

16:10 Steffen Terp Laursen: New excavations at Qala’at al-Bahrain and the Royal Mounds of A’ali, Bahrain

16.35 Taichi Kuronuma et al.: Social changes and maintenance in inner Southeast Arabia during the Wādī Sūq period: A case study of Bāt, Sultanate of Oman

17:00 End

Friday 5th August - Session 2

9.00 Welcome / Registration

Session 7 Sasanian & Early Islamic Arabia (Chair: Clara Mancarella)

9.25 Seth Priestman et al: Fulayj: A Late Sasanian Fort on the Batinah, Oman and its Transformation in the Early Islamic Period

9.50 Guillaume Chung-To: Al-Hurdah as an Early Islamic area in the oasis of Khaybar

10.15 Rob Carter et al.: Maritime heritage of Bahrain: underwater survey and investigations at Al-Sayah, a constructed island and provisioning centre of the Early Islamic period

10.40 Break

11.10 Jose C. Carvajal Lopez et al.: New information on early Islamic ceramic production and distribution of the Gulf: Siraf, Bushehr and Fulayj

11.35 Timothy Power et al.: A Newly Discovered Late Antique Monastery and Islamic Town on Sīnīya Island, Umm al-Quwain

Session 8: Islamic Arabia (Chair: Tim Power)

12.00 Awet Teklehimanot Araya: An Archaeology of African presence in Bahrain (7th-19th c. AD). New insights from excavations at Jeblat Hebshi, Zinj, Baijawiyah & Muharraq

12.25 Julian Jansen van Rensburg et al.: The Islamic Fortifications of Soqotra

12.50 Lunch

14.00 Karol Juchniewicz et al.: Rescue excavations in historic Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

14.25 Cassandra Furstos et al.: Long-distance trade in Al-Ula from the Mamluk period to the 20th century AD: Technological, morphological and typological study of glass bangles collected in Al-Ula oasis (Hejjaz, Saudi Arabia)

14.50 Aurore Lambert et al.: Short-term coastal occupation on Jubail Island: Modern Lime Kilns and Marine Resource exploitation for artisanal activities (Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE)

15.15 Break

15.45 Lisa Urkevich: Tariq Abdul-Hakim (1920-2012) “The General” of Saudi Music and early 20th-Century Hijazi Influences

16.10 Pascale Clauss-Balty et al.: Oasian vernacular architecture: The case of Al-Ula (Northwestern Saudi Arabia)

16.35 Elizabeth Cerny & Ronald Ruzicka: GlaViWo – An Arabist's estate accessible in a 3D virtual world

17.00 End

Saturday 6th August - Main Seminar 1

Session 3: Climate and Agriculture (Chair: Jose Carvajal Lopez)

9.00 Saif Albedwawi: Desert Locust Control in Arabia

9.25 Tara Beuzen-Waller: Holocene fluvial records from the southern piedmont of the Hajar Mountains (Oman): contributions for the study of prehistoric and protohistoric periods

9.50 Louise Purdue et al.: Agriculture and landscape evolution in the fluvial oasis of AlUla (Saudi Arabia): methods and first results in the framework of the ArcAgr-AU project

10.15 Stephen McPhillips et al: The marabid of Khaybar oasis. New archaeological perspectives on enclosure systems in the basalt harra landscapes of northwest Arabia

10.40 Break

Saturday 6th August - Main Seminar 2

Session 6: Epigraphy and Language (Chair: Irene Rossi)

9.25 Fokelien Kootstra et al.: The organization of the cult of Ḏūġābat and its association with foreign deities: evidence from a newly discovered Dadanitic sanctuary in Jabal al-Khuraybah

9.50 Mohammad I. Ababneh: The meaning of the preposition bn in ʿgl bn Hfʿm inscription in the light of an unpublished Ancient North Arabian (Safaitic) inscription

10:15 Justine Potts: A new Sabaean votive inscription to Almaqah from the temple of Awwam

10.40 Break

Saturday 6th August - Special Session: Scents of Arabia

Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Part 1: Conceptual frameworks (Moderator: Ricardo Eichmann)

11:10 Arnulf Hausleiter, Introduction to the Special Session

11:35 Sureshkumar Mutukaran: From and Beyond Arabia: Incense culture and resinous substances in the 1st millennium BCE Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean

12:00 Lunch

Part 2: Practice and use (Moderator: Marta Luciani)

13:10 AbdulRahman Al Maashani, Frankincense: From Scraping To Burning

13:35 William G. Zimmerle, Production of incense burners: ethnographic perspectives

Part 3: Reconstructing smells: New Insights (Moderator: N.N.)

14:00 Barbara Huber, Thomas Larsen, Beyond Frankincense: Exploring aromatic diversity in Arabia using biomolecular approaches

14:25 Elisabeth Dodinet, Archaeobotany and the reconstruction of scents

14:50 Sofia Collette Ehrich (Odeuropa Group), How Can We Smell History? – presenting and communicating olfactory histories within the cultural sector

15:15 Break

Part 4: Incense trade (Moderator: Friedrich Weigel)

15:45 Julian Jansen van Rensburg & Alan Forrest, What do we really know about the incense trade?

16:10 Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon, Incense Trade in the Islamic Period

Part 5: Integrating new research strands (Moderator: Michael C. A. Macdonald)

16:45 – 17:30 Panel discussion

Part 6: Transregional dimensions (Keynote lecture)

19:00 Kiersten Neumann, “Aššur, accept! Aššur, listen!”: Connecting Arabia and Assyria through Incense and Olfaction

End

Sunday 7th August Main Seminar

Session 4: Late Bronze and Iron Ages (Chair: Sarah Japp)

9.00 Tatiana Valente et al.: The necropolis of Al Qusais (Dubai, UAE): preliminary results on the 2020 excavation and data reassessment from the 70s and 90s excavations

9.25 Kristina Pfeiffer et al.: Graves as media of communication? Studies on Late Bronze and Iron Age Collective Tombs at the site of Dibba, Fujairah (U.A.E.)

9.50 Eric Olijdam & Christian Velde: Late-second-millennium soft-stone vessels revisited, Or: How to improve our understanding of the Late Bronze and Iron Age I periods in the Oman Peninsula

10.15 Break, Poster Session: poster presenters need to stand by their posters

Session 5: Landscape and Settlement (Chair: Sebastiano Lora)

10.50 Stephanie Döpper: The Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey: Field Seasons 2021 and 2022

11.15 Christoph Schwall et al.: The 2021 field season at Kalba: Results of the excavations and geoarchaeological surveys

11.40 Marta Luciani: Desert Mega-Sites: Urban Oases in the Bronze and Iron Ages

12:05 Irene Rossi & Jérémie Schiettecatte: Mapping and synthesizing ancient Arabia: The Maparabia project

12.30 Lunch

13:30 Silvia Lischi et al: Archaeological research of the Saudi-French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission to Najrān in the area of Ḥimā (Najrān, Saudi Arabia): Results of the 2020 and 2021 seasons

13:55 Marco Ramazzotti et al: MASPAG first archaeological survey in al Batinah South Governorate, Sultanate of Oman Archaeological and historical framework, methodological perspectives and preliminary results

14.20 Peter Sheehan et al: The Oman Border Fence Project 2021 – a journey through the hydraulic, agricultural and funerary landscapes of al-ʿAyn

14:45 Break

Session 6: Pre-Islamic Récent (3rd BC to 3rd AD) (Chair: Francelin Tourtet)

15:10 Leonardo Gregoratti: Ommana and the Parthian/Characenian Presence in South-Eastern Arabia

15.35 Bruno Overlaet et al.: The Late Pre-Islamic Funerary Landscape at Mleiha. Results of the 2021-22 Excavations

16.00 Guillaume Charloux et al.: Rediscovering the Oasis of Qaryat al-Faw. The Saudi Heritage Commission Archaeological Mapping Project

16.25 Solène Marion de Proce: The Roman military detachment on the Farasan Islands: archaeological evidence at last

16.50 End

Sunday 7th August (Hörsaal 2095A) – parallel to main and graduate students’ session

Students’ session (undergraduates) – Organizer Antonia Charlotta Seifert

9.00 Introduction

9.10 Presentations

10.40 Break

11.00 Presentations

12:40 Lunch

13:30 Open Forum

14.30 End

Sunday 7th August (Hörsaal 2095a)– parallel to main and students’ session

Graduate students’ session (PhD candidates) – Organizer Alina Zur

9.00 Introduction

9.10 Presentations

10.40 Break

11.00 Presentations

12:40 Lunch

13:30 Presentations

14.45 Break

15.10 Open Forum

16.10 End