Workshop titled “Archaeological Landscape in Southeast Arabia: New Perspectives from Recent Fieldwork” was hosted by the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
Participants included members of the Omani-Polish expedition led by Prof. Piotr Bieliński, working in the Qumayrah micro-region of the Hajjar Mountains in northern Oman, as well as Dr. Taichi Kuronuma from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, who lead the project in Bat and co-direct the project in Tanuf regions of north-central Oman. The presentation of results from surface surveys and excavations in different geographical zones sparked discussions on settlement patterns typical of these landscapes and the factors shaping them over various prehistoric periods.
PROGRAM (12th September, 11 am–6 pm)
Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Kantaro Tanabe, Yasuhisa Kondo
– Archaeological landscape in the canyon at the foot of the Al-Hajar Mountains. New perspectives from the investigations in the Tanuf District (Wilayat Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman) until the 2023–2024 season (Abstract PDF)
Taichi Kuronuma, Yasuhisa Kondo
– Beyond the Bronze Age. Landscape transformation in Bat, Al-Khutm, and Al-Ayn (Wilayat Ibri, Sultanate of Oman) from the renewed surveys in 2024.
Agnieszka Pieńkowska
– Early Bronze Age settlement at the Ayn Bani Sa’dah site in northern Oman.
Maciej Sobczak
– Analysis of Umm an-Nar pottery from the settlement QA3 at Ayn Bani Sa’dah, Oman.
Łukasz Rutkowski
– Umm an-Nar Period Tomb (QA 1-1) at Ayn Bani Sa’dah, Oman.
Agnieszka Szymczak
– QA 21 in the archaeological site complex near ‘Ayn Banī Sa’dah (Qumayrah Micro-region in the Hajjar Mountains of Northern Oman).
Mateusz Iskra
– Comparative analysis of Iron Age pottery from sites QA 20 and QA 21.
The workshop was associated with Prof. Piotr Bieliński’s project “Development of settlement during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the northern Oman mountains,” funded by the National Science Centre, Harmonia 10 grant 2018/30/M/HS3/00635.