List of Contributors
Introduction

PART ONE: ADAPTATIONS TO THE DESERT ENVIRONMENTS

Maurizio CATTANI & Sandor BÖKÖNYI, Ash-Shumah. An Early Holocene Settlement of Desert Hunters and Mangrove Foragers in the Yemeni Tihama

Francesco DI MARIO, I Siti 'neolitici' del Ramlat Sab'atayn, Yemen orientale

Vincent CHARPENTIER, Archéologie de la côte des Ichtyophages: coquilles, squales et cétacés du site IVᵉ-IIIᵉ millénaires av. J.-C de Ra's al-Jinz

Karen FRIFELT, Bat, a Centre in Third Millennium Oman

Vincenzo Maria FRANCAVIGLIA, Some Remarks on the Irrigation Systems of Ancient Yemen

PART TWO: EMERGING COMPLEXITY AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD

Geraldina SANTINI, Burial Complex 43 in the RH-5 Prehistoric Graveyard at Ra's al-Hamra, Northern Oman

Carl S. PHILLIPS, Prehistoric Middens and a Cemetery from the Southern Arabian Gulf

Karen FRIFELT, Did the Umm an-Nar Graves Originate in Oman?

Serge CLEUZIOU, The Early Bronze Age of the Oman Peninsula: from Chronology to the Dialectics of Tribe and State Formation

William LANCASTER & Fidelity LANCASTER, Trade and Stratified Society. Information from Ja'alan, Oman

PART THREE: EARLY CONTACTS WITH THE URBAN CIVILIZATIONS

Yves CALVET, The Dilmun Culture at Its Border with Mesopotamia

Serge CLEUZIOU & Sophie MÉRY, In-between the Great Powers: Bronze Age Oman Peninsula

Hélène DAVID, Soft Stone Mining Evidence in the Oman Peninsula and Its Relation to Mesopotamia

Jean-Jacques GLASSNER, Dilmun et Magan: le peuplement, l'organisation politique, la question des Amorrites et la place de l'écriture. Point de vue de l'assyriologue

Kenneth A. KITCHEN, Egypt, Middle Nile, Red Sea and Arabia

Juris ZARINS, Dhofar, Frankincense, and Dilmun Precursors to the Iobaritae and Omani