Qumayrah Valley
Dates of work: 13 November – 18 December 2018
Team:
Director: Prof. Piotr Bieliński (PCMA UW)
MHC representative: Sulaiman al-Jabri (Department of Excavations and Archaeological Studies, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman)
Umm an-Nar cemetery Sub-Project Director: Dr. Łukasz Rutkowski (PCMA UW)
Archaeologists: Magdalena Antos (independent), Dr. Marcin Białowarczuk (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Dorota Bielińska, Dominika Majchrzak (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences), Marta Momot, Donata Pawłowska (independent), Dr. Agnieszka Pieńkowska (PCMA UW), Andrzej Reiche (independent), Assoc. Prof. Dariusz Szeląg (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Agnieszka Szymczak (PCMA UW)
Physical anthropologist: Marta Parol (independent)
Documentalist: Marek Puszkarski (PCMA UW)
Photographer: Barbara Solarewicz (freelance)
Surveyors: Magdalena Antos, Jakub Świda (freelance)
Student-trainee (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Anna Graczyk
Acknowledgments
This campaign of the Omani-Polish Archaeological Mission was supported by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
Results:
Excavations continued at the burial site of QA 1 where the tower-tomb QA 1-1 was further explored and the osteological material was analysed by an anthropologist. At the settlement site of QA 3 remains from the Iron Age and the Umm an-Nar period were explored. The surface remains at the neighboring site of QA 21 was further mapped and pottery collection from the area showed it to be an Iron Age settlement.
Contact
Prof. Piotr Bieliński p.bielinski@uw.edu.pl