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2020
- handle: 10670/1.1wj6tn
- isbn: 9781789696530
- hal: hal-03021159
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Early Bronze Age Oman Irrigation Archaeology OmanSujets proches
Prehistoric antiquities Prehistory Prehistoric archaeology Wintertime Urban development Urban systems Cities and towns, Movement to Clock-towers Church towers Rock-tombs Graves Sepulchers Vaults (Sepulchral) Administration Early man Prehistoric human beings Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) Prehistoric humans Man, Prehistoric Prehistory Prehistoric archaeology Documents Documents, Legal Article Documents Public documents Official publications Government documents Frenchmen (French people) Documents Documents Indentures Documents Charters--Law and legislation Documents Manuscript repositories Manuscript depositories Manuscripts--Repositories Manuscripts--Depositories Archeology 3rd millennium Field work Field study Field protocols archeologyCiter ce document
Corinne Castel et al., « First discoveries of the Bāt / al-Arid Mission (Sultanate of Oman) », HAL-SHS : architecture, ID : 10670/1.1wj6tn
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During winter 2019 the French Archaeological Mission at Bāt and al-Arid (MBA) conducted a first season of investigations jointly on both sites of Bāt and al-Arid (15 km North-West of Bāt), in Central Oman. This article aims to present the first results obtained during the 2019 fieldwork: a microregional study of the site and first excavations of al-Arid, and new records in the necropolis of Bāt. The site of al-Arid is a promising new Bronze Age site in the area of Ibri. It contains five or probably six, Umm an-Nar towers, a Bronze age necropolis with Hafit and Umm an-Nar tombs, a Bronze age settlement dated to the second part of the 3rd millennium BC, and an irrigation channel that might be related to the Bronze age complex. The al-Arid site is quite interesting and useful to help to understand the territory of Bāt, today exposed to rapid urbanization. It documents the remains of an elaborate settlement occupied on a recurrent, if not permanent basis, during the Early Bronze Age, which has never been excavated before. The first results presented here indicate the great archaeological potential of the al-Arid site, and its potential to better understand the emergence of socio-economic complexity in central Oman.