文档介绍：THE ARCHAEOLOGY
OF THE ARABIAN GULF
THE EXPERIENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Series editor: Andrew Wheatcroft
University of Stirling
Rome and its Empire
Stephen Johnson
The Near East: Archaeology in the ‘Cradle of Civilization’
Charles Keith Maisels
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
THE ARABIAN GULF
c. 5000–323 BC
Michael Rice
London and New York
First published in 1994
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge Inc.
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1994 Michael Rice
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Rice, Michael
The archaeology of the Arabian Gulf/Michael Rice
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Persian Gulf Region—Antiquities. 2. Persian Gulf Region—
Civilization. I. Title.
1994
–dc20 93–7006
ISBN 0-415-032687 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-03726-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-20068-3 (Glassbook Format)
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvii
1 THE ARABIAN GULF IN ANTIQUITY 1
2 THE PROGRESS OF GULF ARCHAEOLOGY 24
3 CLIMATE, SEA-LEVELS, MAN AND PANIONS 63
4 DILMUN, THE ANCIENT CULTURE OF THE GULF 78
5 THE POLITY OF THE ANCIENT GULF 99
6 THE MYTHS OF SUMER AND DILMUN 127
7 BAHRAIN: THE BLESSED ISLAND 141
8 DILMUN’S NEIGHBOURING LANDS 203
9 THE MERCHANTS OF DILMUN 264
10 GILGAMESH, THE GULF AND THE LAND OF
THE LIVING 300
11 THE ENIGMA O