Qumayrah Valley
Dates of work: 10 November – 22 December 2021
Team:
Director: Prof. Piotr Bieliński (PCMA UW)
MHT representative: Waleed Awad Harib (MHT Ibri office)
Archaeologists: Dorota Bielińska (independent), Grzegorz Czajka (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw PhD candidate), Marta Momot, Dr. Agnieszka Pieńkowska, Agnieszka Szymczak (PCMA UW), Gaweł Rzeźnik (independent)
Geomorphologist: Assoc. Prof. Barbara Woronko (Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw)
Pottery specialist (Iron Age): Dr. Mateusz Iskra (independent)
Documentalist: Beata Błaszczak (freelance)
Photographer: Jakub Śliwa (freelance)
Surveyor: Szymon Lenarczyk (freelance)
Student-trainees (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw): Anna Graczyk, Juliusz Gręda, Bartłomiej Kukla, Danylo Zviahintsev
Acknowledgments
This campaign was supported by a Polish National Science Centre grant “Harmonia 10” for the project: “The development of settlement in the mountains of northern Oman in the Bronze and Iron Ages” (2018/30/M/HS3/00635). The project is co-directed by Dr. Sultan al-Bakri, Director General of Antiquities at the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism
Results:
In the current season, settlements from the Umm an-Nar phase of the Bronze Age (QA 3) and Iron Age II (QA 21) situated near the village of Ayn Bani Saidah were the main focus of the team’s work.
For details, see: Qumayrah Valley in Oman: ancient towers, copper trade and games
Contact
Prof. Piotr Bieliński p.bielinski@uw.edu.pl